  Since 2006, forty students from high school are selected to attend a full
immersion summer school of physics in the Pigelleto Natural Reserve, on the
south east side of Mount Amiata in the province of Siena. Topics are chosen so
that students are involved in activities rarely pursued in high school, aspects
and relationship with society are underlined and discussed. Our purpose is
offering to really motivated students an opportunity of testing the scientific
method, the laboratory experience in a stimulating context, by deepening an
interesting and relevant topic in order to orienting them towards physics.
Students are encouraged in cooperating in small groups in order to present and
share the achieved results. Starting from the third edition of the school, the
school became a training opportunity for younger teachers which are involved in
programming and realization of selected activities. The laboratory activities
with students are usually supervised by a young and an expert teacher in order
to fix the correct methodology. Recently, young teachers enrolled in a master
in Physics Education tested in the summer school some activity designed in
their courses.
