Particle Builder A Board Game for the Teaching of the Standard Model of Particle Physics at a Secondary Level
Lachlan McGinness, Yutong Ma, Mohammad Attar, Andrew Carse, Yeming Chen, Thomas Green, Jeong-Yeon Ha, Yanbai Jin, Amy McWilliams, Theirry Panggabean, Zhengyu Peng, Jing Ru, Jiacheng She, Lujin Sun, Jialin Wang, Zilun Wei, Jiayuan Zhu

TL;DR
Particle Builder is an online educational board game designed to teach high school students about the Standard Model of Particle Physics, demonstrating increased engagement and learning gains compared to traditional lessons.
Contribution
This paper introduces Particle Builder, a novel interactive game that effectively teaches complex particle physics concepts at the secondary education level.
Findings
Students showed a significant knowledge gain of 0.16
The game increased student engagement and reduced perceived difficulty
The activity was more effective than traditional classroom lessons
Abstract
We present Particle Builder, an online board game which teaches students about concepts from the Standard Model of Particle Physics at a high school level. This short activity resulted in a gain of 0.16, indicating that students learned a significant amount of particle physics knowledge. Students found the activity was more engaging and less difficult than a normal classroom lesson.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsExperimental and Theoretical Physics Studies · Science Education and Pedagogy · Various Chemistry Research Topics
