Day/Night Cosmic Ray analysis
Description: See if there is difference between day and night cosmic rays, on the same day. Standards: Learning Ojectives: Prior Knowledge: Background Matrial: Implementaton: Assessmt:
Pressure eLab Activity
DESCRIPTION Students will perform a search of the data to determine whether or not there is a relationship between the atmospheric pressure and the flux. This activity will enable students to become proficient at looking at data and performing flux studies. Students will report…
Effect of Time of Day on Cosmic Ray Detection
Time of Day eLab Activity Teacher Notes DESCRIPTION Students will perform a search of data to investigate whether there is a relationship between time of day and flux. This activity will enable students to become proficient at looking at data, and performing…
Experimental Design Outline
This is a guide to the types of questions you can use to prepare students for designing labs
Josh Erlich Talk Aug 5, 2014
Here is the link to Josh's talk on August 5, 2014 http://physics.wm.edu/~erlich/QN-Josh-8-5-14.pdf Enjoy!
Information on Detector Lesson
Particle Adventure WebQuest
This is the assignment that I use to introduce the Standard Model to my students...step one is to show the students the Particle Adventure website and step two is to allow them a few days of working through the WebQuest on their own as homework. Finally, the project concludes with the…
Agenda for Summer Meeting August 4 - 6, 2014
Do Performance Plots Reliably Indicate the Blessability of Data?
(first draft) The purpose of this activity is to provide students with some experience interpreting performance plots and blessing plots. I would assign this activity after students have performed an experiment or two using either data already uploaded by someone else or, if possible, new…