The secondary school experimentation of SUPERCOMET in Italy

SUPERCOMET is a project within the program Leonardo da Vinci phase II of the European Union and is of what will be the final product of this project: a multimedia tool for teaching superconductivity addressed in particular to secondary school students. The objective of the project in addition to producing the multimedia tool is to create an international community at an European level able to revitalize the teaching of physics in order to open new international collaborations.Through a highly interactive application on CD which comprises animation, films of demonstrative experiments, and uses modern pedagogical methods such as collaborative learning and problem solving, the project aims to introduce superconductivity to European high school curriculums. During the first year of the project the following were produced:- a CD-ROM with didactic material- a teacher’s guide to clarify characteristics and roles of support material (texts, worksheets and computer presentations) and preview didactic courses. During the second year of the project It was: • translated the material into the languages of countries participating in the project;• experimented the application in high school classes in various parts of Europe; • tested the updating course and the teacher’s guide with a group of reference teachers; At the end of the first period of experimentation and dissemination various corrections were made and new material was integrated in order to produce a final version at the end of the project. Further integrated proposals have been included with the revised material.