Objectives

Participating teachers will:

• Apply classical physics principles to reduce or explain the observations in data investigations.
• Identify and describe ways that data are organized for determining any patterns that may exist in the data.
• Create, organize and interpret data plots; make claims based on evidence and provide explanations; identify data limitations.
• Develop a plan for taking students from their current level of data use to subsequent levels using activities and/or ideas from the workshop.

We will also provide opportunities to engage in critical dialogue among teaching colleagues about what they learn in the workshop.

Zoom link:  

https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94217014329     (pass code is the Higgs boson mass to 3 digits in GeV units, see bottom of page or full Zoom details)

Full Zoom details 

Preworkshop screencast of workshop overview and registration

Daily sign-in: https://forms.gle/uXXzb11LCSCNuuyp6.

Agenda

Wed 22 July

09:00   Welcome & Introductions (Ken)

• Zoom sign-in and handshake
• Whip around: How are you doing??
• Norms: Based on STEP UP Poster?
• Registration
• QuarkNet Account Update

09:30    Discusson: Data Portfolio (Ken)

09:45    Level 0 Activity Prototype: Cloud Chamber (student) (teacher) (Ken)

10:15    CMS presentation (30' talk, 15' Q&A) (Darin)

• slides

10:45    Intro to homework (Jeremy)

• slides

11:00    Lunch Break   

            Homework: Level 1 Activity Rolling with Rutherford online version

• simulation
• Google form

1:00    Homework discussion and analysis (Jeremy)

1:15    Level 0 Activity: Shuffling the Particle Deck (online version prototype) (Jeremy)

• Each group organizes cards in Google slides
• Look for trends in particle characteristics:
  • mass
  • lifetime
  • year of discovery
  • other
• Prepare to discuss what you have found
• More complete chart

2:00    Online teaching resources, initiation of a discussion

2:15    end of day

5:00    Zoom social hour

Thu 23 July

09:00   Check-in

09:15    Level 2 Data Activity:

• Calculate the Z Mass (use breakout rooms)
• Protractor for Chrome

10:15   Discussion

10:30  begin Intro to CMS Dimuon Data Notebook and Google Colab  (initial instructions here) 

11:00   Lunch Break

1:00    continue Intro to CMS Dimuon Data Notebook and Google Colab  (initial instructions here)

            Invariant mass slides

1:45    Plot a simulation of distribution of direction angles Φ of CMS muon tracks using Python (Colab notebook)

2:15    end of day

5:00    Zoom social hour

Homework:

Movie night! Watch these videos (at least the first) as an introduction to AI neural networks by  3blue1brown:  video 1,  video 2 (optional), 

Fri 24 July

09:00   Check-in and homework discussion

09:15    AI introduction and AI notebook on CMS data 

            AI initititive at the University of Florida

            slides    (see also YouTube videos above)

            Workbook1,  Workbook2  on handwritten digit recostruction

11:00    Lunch Break

1:00    Implementation Plan

• Group 1 Notes
• Group 2 Notes

1:55    Teacher Survey

• If you completed the 2019 Teacher Survey, complete the 2020 Teacher Survey Update (~6 mins)
• If you did NOT complete the 2019 Teacher Survey, complete the 2020 Teacher Survey (~20 mins)

2:15    End of Workshop

p.s. The mass of the Higgs boson is 125 GeV
       (hydrogen has a mass of 0.94 GeV, so the Higgs mass is as much as an element of ...)