Pilot for The Elusive Ms Higgs:a detective fiction of elementary truths

编写“难以捉摸的希格斯女士：关于基本真理的侦探小说”的试点项目将为选定中学的学生编写和评价一些以物理学为基础的叙述性情景。特别是，我们将与来自低收入家庭（FSM），黑人和少数民族（BME）背景和女孩的学生接触-所有传统上不参与该主题的群体。这些情景是基于在发现希格斯玻色子过程中克服的关键方面和挑战，并将要求学生积极使用科学方法和物理原理，他们将通过侦探推理的类型来了解这项任务。这是教授粒子物理学和科学方法的一种非传统方法，我们将试图通过这种方法接触目标群体。我们将确定将这些场景发展成沉浸式和参与性的戏剧作品的可行性和有效性，作为通常使用非常传统的方法向12岁的学生教授科学科目的替代教学方法-14岁我们希望确定如何使用这种方法来促进学生群体对科学的参与，这些学生通常不会因为缺乏榜样或其他更复杂的社会文化和经济因素而在义务科学教育之外参与这些科目。通过评估这种方法对学生的影响，我们的目标是确定促进参与所教科目的关键因素，并在这样做的过程中了解我们如何发展一个全面的沉浸式和参与式的表现，这反过来又可以作为一种实践模式，以提高学生参与其他科学科目。

The pilot project for the development of "The Elusive Ms Higgs: a detective fiction of elementary truths", will develop and evaluate a number of physics-based narrative scenarios with pupils in selected secondary schools. In particular, we will engage with pupils from low-income families (FSM), black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds and girls - all groups that have traditionally not engaged with the subject. The scenarios are based on key aspects and challenges overcome in the process of discovering the Higgs boson, and will require the active use of scientific method and physics principles by pupils who will be introduced to the task through the genre of a detective mystery. This is a non-traditional approach to teaching both particle physics and the scientific method through which we will attempt to reach the target groups.At the same time, we will determine the feasibility and effectiveness of developing these scenarios into an immersive and participatory theatre piece as an alternative pedagogical method for the teaching of scientific subjects that are usually taught using very traditional methods to school pupils aged 12 - 14 years old. We wish to determine how such an approach can be used to promote engagement with science by groups of pupils who do not normally engage with these subjects beyond compulsory science education either through an absence of role models or for other more complex socio-cultural and economic factors. Through the evaluation of the impact of this approach on school pupils, we aim to identify the key factors that promote engagement with the subject being taught and in so doing understand how we might develop a full scale immersive and participatory performance, which in turn can be used as a model of practice to enhance pupil engagement with other science subjects.