An intra-curricular photonics kit designed for lower and upper secondary school students across Europe. Each kit contains a class set of generic, durable and versatile optical experimental components for a class of 25-30 students. This is supported by a didactic framework consisting of worksheets, factsheets, teacher guides and multimedia material. The Photonics Explorer is specifically designed to integrate into, enhance and complement existing European secondary school science curricula. 25 European Local Associated Partners of EYESTvzw are distributing the kits, in conjunction with teacher training courses. Over 2500 kits currently distributed EU wide reaching over 125.000 students every year! The Photonics Explorer is available in Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish! Contact us: Ir. Nathalie Debaes CEO – EYESTvzw info@eyest.eu www.eyest.eu
Ing. Tine De Pauw tdepauw@b-phot.org 0032 2 629 10 18
Supported by:
engage, excite, educate
What is the Photonics Explorer?
What is in the box? 10 aluminium mirrors (7x7 cm) 20 polarisers (7x5 cm) 10 colour filter sets (7x4 cm) including red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow 10 LED modules with red, green and blue LEDs 10 sets of robust plastic lenses 10 foils with slit and double slit for optical diffraction experiments 10 diffraction gratings 2 sets of diffractive optical elements 5 m polymer optical fibre 10 eyesafe Lasers 1 DVD including the didactic framework in 10 languages
www.eyest.eu
The Educational Modules Lower secondary level (12-14 years) • Light signals – the properties of light and its use in telecommunication • Colours – colour perception, additive and subtractive colour mixing • Lenses and telescopes – refraction and imaging • Eye and vision – comparison between human eyes and digital cameras, learning about accommodation in the eye Upper secondary level (16-18 years) • Making light – comparing different light sources, laser • Polarisation – applications in displays and life sciences • Diffraction and interference – diffraction on a slit, spectrometry • A scientist’s job – encouraging esp. young women to pursue careers in science and engineering
Please register at www.eyest.eu and receive an invitation for the next course.