The Accelerating Teaching project: Teaching accelerator physics and its uses in high school classrooms

"Race to Space" is a learning game that combines neutron scattering with a narrative pedagogical approach to engage high school students in physics. The game provides an active learning setting, where students take on the role of a team of scientists who will use neutron scattering techniques to analyze materials as part of in an interactive story. As the story progresses, the scientists (students) are put in situations, where they need to also consider connections between neutron scattering and other physics disciplines (planetary science and biophysics). They are faced with moral and ethical dilemmas concerning funding, commercialization, and scientific values. This talk will focus on the development of the game and how it was presented in a MOOC that was targeted at European science teachers.