Friday Flyer - May 29, 2015
Spotlight on Summer 2015: Summer is upon us, and starting next week, the Friday Flyer will be on hiatus until September, unless we run a special edition. (Who knows what discoveries are around the corner?) June through August will be a busy time for QuarkNet. There will be, at latest count, 30…
Friday Flyer - May 22, 2015
Spotlight on the Cosmic Fellows: Got a cosmic ray detector? Use the e-Lab? Jeff Rodriguez opines, "If there's something weird and it don't look good, who you gonna call? Cosmic Ray fellows." This team, under the leadership of Bob Peterson, facilitates cosmic ray workshops; answers help desk…
Friday Flyer - May 15, 2015
Spotlight on the LHC Fellows: There is a group of QuarkNet teachers standing behind our educational work with data from the Large Hadron Collider. If you want to use authentic LHC data in the classroom, the LHC fellows are your fellows. The group includes Mike Wadness and Rick Dower of the…
Zenith Angle of Cosmic Rays
Timeline in reverse chronological order: 8 May 2015 - Ken corrected errors in student report. Teacher_v0.5 Student_v0 Report_v0.5 7 May 2015 - Sent to Jeremy for first review: Teacher Student Report (Jeremy…
Friday Flyer - May 8, 2015
Spotlight on Teaching and Learning Fellows: Been to Data Camp or one of its progenitors? If so, you've worked with the Teaching and Learning fellows, who manage and facilitate this central QuarkNet professional development workshop. Done a QuarkNet activity? It was vetted for educational best…
Welcome to Virginia Tech QuarkNet!
Welcome to the Virginia Tech QuarkNet group. To start, here are three things you can do right now: Create/edit your site profile (please do ASAP!) 1. In the top menu, roll over "My stuff" 2. Choose "My profile" 3. Under…
Friday Flyer - May 1, 2015
Spotlight on the LIGO e--Lab: Are you looking for a cool way for beginning physics students to use v = d/t? Perhaps you have an earth science class that might benefit from authentic seismic data? Then the LIGO e-Lab is a place you might want to look. LIGO is the Laser Interferometer…
TOTEM Data Express
Timeline in reverse chronological order: May 13, 2015 - Revised after comments by Jean and returned for futher edits or approval - student_v3 - teacher_v3 - report_v3 April 29, 2015 - After Jeremy's edits - student_v2 - teacher_v2 - report_v2; teacher_v2.1 (w/o additional NGSS) April 24, 2015 - New…