QuarkNet Data Portfolio

A collection of proven instructional activities developed around data strands that help students develop an understanding about how scientists make discoveries. 
The Data Portfolio organizes activities by data strand and level of student engagement. Activities differ in complexity and sophistication—tasks in Level 1 are simpler than those in Levels 2 and 3. While each level can be explored individually, students that start in one level and progress to more complex levels experience increasingly engaging and challenging tasks. Teachers select activities to offer a learning experience of an appropriate length and level for their students.

A collection of proven instructional activities developed around data strands that help students develop an understanding about how scientists make discoveries.

The Data Portfolio organizes activities by data strand and level of student engagement. Activities differ in complexity and sophistication—tasks in Level 1 are simpler than those in Levels 2 and 3. While each level can be explored individually, students that start in one level and progress to more complex levels experience increasingly engaging and challenging tasks. Teachers select activities to offer a learning experience of an appropriate length and level for their students.

Activity Name Data Strand Level Curriculum Topics NGSS Practices Topic
TOTEM 2

Use quantum physics and LHC data to estimate the size of the proton.
LHC
Level 2
2
4
5
6
7
8
CMS Data Express

CMS Data Express is a short investigation in which students inspect and characterize W or Z events from the LHC.
LHC
Level 2
1
2
4
5
6
7
8
Making it ‘Round the Bend - Qualitative

Students explore the effects of electric and magnetic fields on particles. 
LHC
Level 1
1
2
3
4
6
7
Mass of U.S. Pennies

Students create and interpret a histogram of penny masses.
Cosmic Ray
LHC
Level 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Rolling with Rutherford

Students use statistics to make an indirect measurement they can easily confirm.
Cosmic Ray
LHC
Level 1
1
3
4
5
7
CMS e-Lab

Students have an opportunity to learn how to analyze data to calibrate the CMS detector and participate in discovery science (as particle physicists do).
LHC
Level 3
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Calculate the Top Quark Mass

Students use conservation laws and vector addition to calculate the top mass from event displays.
Cosmic Ray
LHC
Level 1
1
4
5
7
Quark Workbench 2D/3D

Students use Standard Model rules to build hadrons and mesons from quarks.
Cosmic Ray
LHC
Level 0
1
2
4
5
6
7
Cosmic Ray e-Lab

Students experience the excitement of scientific collaboration in this series of investigations into high-energy cosmic rays.
Cosmic Ray
Level 3
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
ATLAS Z-path Masterclass

Students are physicists for a day at a university or lab where they work with physiists to how to analyze real particle physics data in the form of event displays.

 
LHC
Level 2
1
2
4
5
6
7
8