Teaching Materials

Materials produced by teachers for use with their own students are available from the links below:

Building a synchrotron (word 192kb) - worksheets and notes from John Clinch (The Perse School, Cambridge - uploaded 26/07/07)

Download or order posters, publications and teaching materials on the LHC and particle physics from the publication pages of the STFC website.

The stunning A1 poster 'A Tunnel to the Beginning of Time', the fold out A5 booklet 'Big Questions, Big Experiment:The Large Hadron Collider' and the cartoon booklet 'The Little Book of the Big Bang' are specifically about the LHC. They can be ordered from the STFC website or downloaded:

A Tunnel to the Beginning of Time (pdf 1MB)

Big Questions, Big Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (pdf 2MB) 

The Little Book of the Big Bang (pdf 3.5MB)

You can also download material from the CERN website:

A double-sided, cartoon-style poster describing the CMS detector (cover pdf 4.7MB), (inside pdf 6.9MB).

The website for the CMS experiment has a good explanation of the development of the universe since the beginning of the Big Bang and a 'scale' illustrating the relative sizes of familiar and less familiar objects. .

Two posters are available to download (or order) from the ATLAS store along with booklets, DVDs and other materials.