BCScTA Catalyst 2024

There is a reason black holes are the topic of so many science-fiction books and movies. Black holes are some of the most extreme environments in the universe, defying our everyday intuition about time, space, and gravity. While science fiction sometimes gets the physics wrong, the real physics of black holes is no less exciting. Share the wonder and mystery of black holes with students using these hands-on activities, which explore what black holes are, where and how they form, and how we know they exist. This session will share Perimeter Institute resources that provide classroom activities and supporting materials designed to cover key curriculum topics while sharing the physics of black holes with students. This session will add a plenary that relates the resources to an intuitive method for teaching special relativity in the BC physics curriculum