Outreach teaching 2017

This course offers an introduction to communication and popularization of science to undergraduate physics students. Each year, some twenty students have been able to develop their own outreach projects around an aspect of fundamental physics for five days. These projects are accompanied by various exercises and courses on science communication. All the projects are presented at the end of the workshop by the students themselves during a public session at the University in front of a large audience.

Show donné en mai 2017 par les étudiants de l’option vulgarisation du magistère de physique d’Orsay (Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay).

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2018, Défis de physique.

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2017, HeartScience, un jeu de carte qui apprend la physique sans s’en rendre compte !

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2017, La physique dans les films.

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2017, End-tropy : Une bande annonce imagine un monde où le second principe de l’entropie serait violé !

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2017, Où va l’énergie ?

With the science illustrator Julie Sistenich, we have developpe a new way to show scientific articles. The article is magnified and presented through small pop-ups which display the underlying physics. Two discoveries were used as examples : the invention of the tunneling microscope (STM) and its use in nanoscience, and the invention of super-resolved microscopies (STED) and its use in biology. (Sorry but the contents are in french)

Nine students in science illustration were asked to explain four types of modern microscopes in new means. They ended up into four new formats : panorama, augmented reality, hands-on cubes or vintage computer. For each, you can downlad a Do-It-Yourself version that you can print and build.

Lou, Mathilde and Marianne have created six cubes that, assembled in different ways, tell the story of tunneling microscopy: its discovery, what it consists of, what it can measure or even manufacture …
It is a new system of science communication that makes it possible to invent a new form of scientific narrative.

You can watch the video that shows how it works, but also download and print the cubes and use them yourself.

Nine students in science illustration were asked to explain four types of modern microscopes in new means. They ended up into four new formats : panorama, augmented reality, hands-on cubes or vintage computer. For each, you can downlad a Do-It-Yourself version that you can print and build.

François-Guillaume and Joseph created a computer “vintage” from the 80’s that tells in its way the principle and interest of fluorescence and confocal microscopy. You can download the video and the patern to create your own retro mini-computer!

Nine students in science illustration were asked to explain four types of modern microscopes in new means. They ended up into four new formats : panorama, augmented reality, hands-on cubes or vintage computer. For each, you can downlad a Do-It-Yourself version that you can print and build.

Cassandra and Hannah have created a game: print it, cut out, place all six tiles on their right position on the board, and you will trigger an animated movie in augmented reality with the AURASMA app (on smartphone or tablet).

Nine students in science illustration were asked to explain four types of modern microscopes in new means. They ended up into four new formats : panorama, augmented reality, hands-on cubes or vintage computer. For each, you can downlad a Do-It-Yourself version that you can print and build.

Héloïse and Mathilde have drawn a large banner to tell the story of atomic force microscopy in an imaginary and poetic world. From left to right, it evolves from a delirious universe to the real microscope whose principle is revealed. On the back, a free interpretation of what the microscope tries to measure: the relief of the material.

You can watch a part of the banner in this video, but better download it to discover it in its entirety and, why not, print it to expose it in the format that suits you best.

This website proposes to discover the world of the physics of atoms and solids in both videos and comics. Discover simple and elegant animations to introduce this physics. Browse clickable comics on real labs working in these fields, their researchers, their discoveries and their tools. A playful and aesthetic content accessible both in French or English. You can also download all content and use it yourself.

The OpenTP.fr website comes from a teaching program at Paris-Saclay University. Drawing inspiration from the practices of design schools or art schools, this course proposes physicist students to make their own Students’ Lab. After an initiation in the form of challenges and games, they have to design and build their experimental setup, then analyze the results, in five days. It is an initiation close to the research process, which renews the vision that students have of experimental physics: more creative but also riskier and with unexpected outcomes!

This site allows the sharing of original educational materials (the sheets) and the sharing of physics projects led by students (tutorials), so that a community of users can develop around these new approaches of physics.

The OpenTP.fr website allows you to quickly create graphical tutorials for scientific projets.

These sheets let you discover the Arduino microcontroler, for physics projects or just for fun!

These sheets are available in French and English.

This web site proposes a synthesis of various of our projects.

Nine students in science illustration were asked to explain four types of modern microscopes in new means. They ended up into four new formats : panorama, augmented reality, hands-on cubes or vintage computer. For each, you can downlad a Do-It-Yourself version that you can print and build.