Teaching Quantum – thinking outside of the quantum box

These resources are designed to help teach quantum physics to key stage five students. There are three groups of experiments that make up the full suite, with an over document which provides a guide to the resources and activities. These are:

• Double-slit and diffraction
• Planck's constant
• Electroscope

There are three kits available and each kit can be used separately, but when used together can be more than the sum of their parts. We encourage teachers to make pedagogical links between the kits, as well as connections with the wider UK Quantum Technologies Programme.

A set of 50 kits were developed by STEM Learning and funded by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology to be distributed to schools via the Stimulating Physics Network. For schools who have not received a kit, the guide describes a kit list which could be purchased through scientific suppliers to enable the kit to be replicated.