Teaching with Data: Fermilab Center Coding Virtual Workshop 2021

Virtual QuarkNet Teachers Workshop 2021, Teaching with Data

Fermilab/University of Chicago Center

tinyurl for this page tinyurl.com/QTW2021

zoom link for the workshop QTW 2021 zoom

Objectives

Apply physics principles to reduce or explain the observations in data investigations.
Examine simulated and experimental data. Identify patterns within the data and consider the causes of those patterns.
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.

PreWork:

Registration QuarkNet Workshop Registration (teachers can indicate if they need a quarknet.org account)
- create or revist your own quarknet website account (this is done manually by the QN fellows, so it may take a day)
- update your own quarknet profile on website How to Update your Profile
Activity Survey
- First time Teachers Full QN Teacher Survey
- Returning Teachers Returning QN Teacher Survey
Link to the actual Data Activities Portfolio
- Slides describing Data Activities Portfolio
- Screencast describing Data Activities Portfolio
Norms for working as a group
- APS STEP UP poster
- Fermilab norms poster
Video: What Most Schools Don’t Teach
Create or select your own Google account
Login with a Google account and try to run this page: Introduction to Jupyter

Tuesday, 3 August, 2021

9:00 Welcome and introductions (QuarkNet/Workshop Overview) [Spencer]
9:15 Student Presentation: Astrophysics
- Design a Cooling System for the Readout Board for a Satellite
- Shivam Gaind, St. Charles East HS, IL
- Juan Estrada, Gullermo Fernandez Moroni
9:40 Student Presentation: Artificial Intelligence for Physics
- Telescope Scheduling with Reinforcement Learning Techniques
- Sophia Zhou, MAMS, MA
- Benjamin Cohen, Blair HS, MD
- Brian Nord, Yuanyuan Zhang
10:15 Introduction to Coding [Adam]
(video) Pair Programming
Join breakout rooms of 2-3 and do these two activities using the Pair Programming model
- Introduction to Jupyter
  - Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook
  - Requirement: need a Google account
- Probability
  - Task: Simulate flipping a coin and make a histogram of the number of heads for each trial.
  - Skills: generate random numbers, create and format a histogram
- Position graphs
  - Task: analyze Position graphs
  - Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
Back to the main room to debrief & share thoughts
12:30 End
- Homework
  - Finish code if needed
  - Revist any of the prework

Wednesday, 4 August, 2021

9:00 Recap and Reflection [Spencer]
9:15 Student Presentation: Solar Neutrinos
- Looking to the Sun in the Search for New Physics
- Arsh Suri, Chattahoochee HS, GA
- Vedran Brdar and Ryan Plestid
9:40 Student Presentation: Solar Neutrinos
- Searching for New Physics with Solar Neutrinos:
  - Statistical Analysis of Time-Dependant Signals from Neutrino Upscattering
- Yu-Ting Chang, Gunn HS, CA
- Ryan Plestid and Vedran Brdar
10:15 Practical Code for Physics Classes [Adam]
- Velocity graphs
  - Task: Analyze Velocity graphs
  - Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
- Projectile in Air
  - Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
  - Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
11:00 Start thinking about implementation
- How might coding fit into your year plan?
- Would you use one of these activities as-is, modify it, or develop your own?
- You might get some ideas from what we use in Coding Camp
11:30 More coding (pick one or both)
- Star catalogue analysis and visualization
- Muon mass: an intro to relativistic kinematics
12:30 End
Homework
- Finish code if needed
- Review Implementation Plan Development Guide

Thursday, 5 August, 2021

9:00 Recap and Reflection [Spencer]
9:15 Student Presentation: Theoretical Physics
- Is Science Personalized?
- Jaisnav Rajesh, Waubonsie Valley HS, IL
- Ciaran Hughes, Ryan Plestid
9:40 Implementation Plans and/or more coding activities [Adam, Chris]
Physics education resources on the web
- BlасkinPhysics.org
- The BlасkinPhysics essay series in Phyics Today
- Amazing book: Invisible Wօmen by Dr. Caroline Criado Perez on gеndеr and data bіаs
- Other amazing book: Disordered Cosmos by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
- NSTA Position statements: we use the one on PD to guide our workshops
- CODINGinK12.org's advice on implementing coding activities and the great charts on salaries
Where might coding activities fit into your course?
See Adam’s CODINGinK12.org site and the UCI Machine Learning repository for data sets and more ideas
Develop or adapt a coding activity and integrate it into your course plan.
Info to convey:
- Other comments
- Expected challenges or pitfalls
- Reason(s) for choosing:
- Connected curriculum topic(s) or practice(s):
- Grade Level(s)
- Class(es) in which used
- Activity Title or Description
- Teacher name
The format should be whatever is useful to you.
- You can use this as a guide for your implementation plan.
Copy of Implementation Form
More coding activities
- Quarknet coding activities
- Adam's CODINGinK12.org
- UCI Machine Learning repository for data sets

12:30 End