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Expression of Interest: Teachers • Researchers
Beginning its 17th year, QuarkNet involves about 100,000 students from 500+ US high schools with opportunities to:
- Analyze real data online
- Collaborate with students worldwide
- Participate in cutting-edge research
- Visit labs and experiments
Through inquiry-oriented investigations students will learn kinematics, particles, waves, electricity and magnetism, energy and momentum, radioactive decay, optics, relativity, forces, and the structure of matter.
QuarkNet Summer Interns @ Fermilab 2017
QuarkNet Centers
- Summary of expectations for mentors
- Summary of grant support for centers
- Groups that have already joined
Our goals for teachers include a deeper understanding of physics content, an appreciation for the machinery of modern science, an introduction to inquiry-based teaching as well as evolution in individual teaching to a more student-centered mode of instruction.
"Lead" teachers will hold eight-week paid summer research appointments under the mentorship of the local center physicists. Teachers, with the help of local mentors, will take part in the construction and testing of detector components, create data sets and develop online experiments for students and help develop classroom detectors.
In succeeding academic years, the teachers will extend their research work to the classroom. They will also work with the physicists to design a research-oriented institute for up to ten other area teachers who will join the center in the second year. The center will have ongoing support in following years.
- Summary of program support for teachers
- Summary of expectations for teachers
Syracuse CMS e-Lab workshop 2017
Syracuse teachers set up cosmic ray detectors in association with solar eclipse 2017
WA teachers work with table top interferometer 2017
Syracuse CMS e-Lab workshop 2017