High School Teachers
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Useful Web Sites at CERN

 CERN offers a wide array of educational opportunities and resources about CERN and particle physics.  From here you can take virtual tours or arrange for a real visit.

CERN Public Pages - A good place to start learning about CERN 
http://www.cern.ch/Public/
CERN Visit Service - Information on visiting CERN 
http://www.cern.ch/VisitsService/
Microcosm - CERN's permanent exhibition, a highlight of any CERN visit.
http://www.cern.ch/microcosm/
CERN Virtual Tour - A quick introduction to what CERN is.
http://www.cern.ch/Public/whatiscern.html
European Particle Physics Outreach Group - CERN Outreach's easy link to national particle physics pages of every CERN member state
http://outreach.cern.ch/public/Welcome.html
Outreach Group Main Page - This site contains the picture packs and educational information about CERN experiments shown to the teachers by the Outreach Group
http://outreach.cern.ch/public/cern/Page1.html
The Particle Adventure - "An Interactive Tour of the Inner Workings of the Atom and the Tools for Discovery"  -- Created by a collaboration of particle physicists and educators.
http://wwwpdg.cern.ch/pdg/particleadventure/index.html
CERN Press Office - Offers a selecton of high-quality CERN photographs to download.  Also worth contacting for CERN materials.
http://www.cern.ch/Press/
Index of physics diagrams and charts - High-quality, colorful particle physics diagrams and charts
http://www.cern.ch/Press/Photos
ATLAS Experiment Public Web Pages - Has nice, easy online tours of the particle physics, the LHC accelerator, and the Atlas detector.
http://atlasinfo.cern.ch/Atlas/public/Welcome.html
A list of useful URLs for CERN Guides - A list of educational sites compiled by the visits service. 
http://www.cern.ch/VisitsService/URLs.html

WIRED: World Wide Web Interactive Real Event Display - Although still being perfected, this is a project the teachers were shown at CERN.  It allows students to analyze real detector data.  A CDRom is in the works.
http://wired.cern.ch/


 

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