Il progetto Lab2Go per la diffusione della pratica laboratoriale nelle Scuole Secondarie di II grado

Even if laboratory practice is essential for all scientific branches of knowledge, it is often neglected at High School, due to lack of time and/or resources. To establish a closer contact between school and experimental sciences, Sapienza Università di Roma and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) launched the Lab2Go project, with the goal of spreading laboratory practice among students and teachers in high schools

Development of a plethysmography system for use under microgravity conditions

We present a novel application of strain-gauge plethysmography that is suitable to detect blood volume variations in the human venous system. The plethysmography system uses capacitive sensors that are electrically connected to a portable electronic unit to record changes of blood volume over time. Such system has been developed within a project that aimed to monitor the cerebral venous return of the astronaut during an experiment on the International Space Station. In this work, we describe the novel solution in which measurement of elongation is directly obtained by charging the sensor capacitance with a constant current. We also report the full characterization of the plethysmography system and an example of the experimental protocol that has been performed in microgravity condition. Remarkably, the system we propose is able to detect cross-sectional area variations of neck veins with enough sensitivity to be useful for studies concerning cardiac oscillations

Inclusive and Exclusive |V(ub)|

The current status of the determinations of CKM matrix element |Vub| via exclusive and inclusive charmless semileptonic B decays is reviewed

Lab2Go: a project for supporting laboratory practice in teaching STEM disciplines in high school

The laboratory practice is essential for learning physics and scientific subjects; unfortunately it is often overlooked in teaching. In order to establish a contact between schools and experimental science, Sapienza Università di Roma and INFN launched Lab2Go, an initiative in the framework of Percorsi per le Competenze Trasversali e per l’Orientamento (PCTO) and supported by Piano Lauree Scientifiche (PLS), with the goal of spreading laboratory practice among students and teachers in high schools. Lab2Go was born in Rome and focused on physics, however in just few years it expanded across Italy thanks to an increasing involvement of INFN and university departments and enlarged its scope to other disciplines (animal biology, botany, chemistry, geology, robotics, scientific museology). Moreover, for preserving the mission of promoting hands-on learning despite the restrictions introduced by COVID-19 pandemic, Lab2Go@Home has been introduced: on-line seminars aimed at showing experiments that can be reproduced at home using easily accessible materials, using resources such as smartphones apps, web tools and devices as the Arduino board

Il progetto Lab2Go per la diffusione della pratica laboratoriale nelle Scuole Secondarie di II grado

Even if laboratory practice is essential for all scientific branches of knowledge, it is often neglected at High School, due to lack of time and/or resources. To establish a closer contact between school and experimental sciences, the University Sapienza of Roma and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) launched the Lab2Go project, with the goal of spreading laboratory practice among students and teachers in high schools.Comment: in Italia

Il progetto Lab2Go per la diffusione della pratica laboratoriale nell’insegnamento delle discipline STEM nelle scuole secondarie di II grado

Per avvicinare gli studenti alle scienze sperimentali, Sapienza Università di Roma e l’INFN hanno ideato il progetto Lab2go. Nato a Roma nell’ambito della fisica, si è diffuso in gran parte d’Italia e ha coinvolto altre discipline. Durante la pandemia COVID-19, sono state introdotte numerose attività on-line, compatibili con la didattica digitale a distanza; per la Fisica la proposta di Lab2Go si è espressa attraverso seminari on-line (Lab2go@home) mostrando esperienze effettuabili con l’utilizzo di materiale povero, app per smartphone e dispositivi digitali quali, ad esempio, Arduino