Pigelleto's Summer School of Physics: a full-immersion orientation program for high-school students¶

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Description¶

The Pigelleto's Summer School of Physics is a four-day full-immersion residential school held in a natural reserve since 2006, oriented toward physics. About forty students "selected by their teachers in a wide network of schools" engage in lectures, laboratories and presentations on topics "rarely pursued in high school, i.e. quantum mechanics, new materials, energy resources". It also serves as a training opportunity for younger teachers.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Students are selected by their teachers from a network of schools within the National Plan for Science Degree

Constraints¶

• The school lasts four days and serves roughly forty students from south Tuscany

Target Learners¶

• motivated high-school students

Target Learning Goals¶

• orientation toward physics degrees
• scientific method and laboratory experience

Claims¶

• Applications to the summer school increased up to double the available positions, which the authors attribute to its active and cooperative learning [+W]

Related Elements¶

• How-it-works laboratory activities in which students discover underlying physics

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Key Sources¶

• Benedetti R., Mariotti E., Montalbano V., Porri A. (2011). Active and cooperative learning paths in the Pigelleto's Summer School of Physics. FFP12, Udine. https://www.sif.it