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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.
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Teaching Quantum - overview document
This document accompanies a set of resources designed to help teach quantum physics to post-16 students. There are three groups of experiments that make up the full suite:
Double-slits and diffraction
This kit and their associated resources are designed to help teach about double-slit and diffraction patterns.
Before teaching this, students should:
- be familiar with constructive and destructive interference;
- be aware that we get diffraction when a wave travels through a gap;
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Planck's constant
The aim of this experiment is for students to be able to determine for themselves the threshold voltage needed to activate a range of LEDs of different colours. From these values, combined with a knowledge of the wavelengths of each LED, students can plot a graph to determine a value for Planck’s constant. The...
Electroscope
This video and PowerPoint describe how to explain and demonstrate the photoelectric effect.
Photoelectric effect
We demonstrate how an aluminium-based electroscope can be positively and negatively charged, and how it can be used to demonstrate the photoelectric effect.
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