Building to Learn: An Educational Activity in the Experiment on Cosmic Rays

AbstractAn educational activity, in which the active share of the students is integral part, has been conducted in the high school “E. Fermi” of Catanzaro, involved in Extreme Energy Events (EEE) project that is the Italian project studying cosmic rays. Like all the experiments on cosmic rays present around the world, EEE uses telescopes assembled by students and teachers in secondary school.This paper reports the educational activity, in which the understanding of the fundamental concepts of circuit elements, voltage and current, happens through the simple construction of HV box for the MRCP chambers, constituting the telescope for cosmic rays