Virginia Center Workshop Agenda August 2 - August 4, 2021

HU-WM-GMU QuarkNet Center

August 2-4, 2021

Virtual Coding Workshop and More!

Objectives

Participating teachers will:

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.

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Agenda (note that times - other than starting times - are approximate):

Monday, August 2, 2021, 9:00 AM - ~1:00 PM Eastern Time

Time (ET)	Session	Zoom Room, Session Lead(s)	Resources
9:00 AM	Welcome Mike Registration and Sign-in Create/update your Quarknet.org account
~9:30 AM	Working Together Adam Norms, Video: Video: Pair programming how-to Introduction to Jupyter Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook	breakout rooms	Norms: APS STEP UP poster Fermilab norms poster Videos: What Most Schools Don’t Teach (YouTube) (Amara w/Sp subtitles) Coding: Introduction to Jupyter
~10:15 AM	Coding Activities Adam 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 Muon mass Task: measure the invariant mass of a muon Skills: calculate invariant mass given its 4-vector (energy and x/y/z-momentum), make a mass plot	breakout rooms	Probability Muon mass Notebook tutorial
~12:40 PM	All Hands Adam Share observations, challenges How do you think your students would handle these tasks?

Tuesday, August 3, 2021, 9:00 AM - ~1:00 PM Eastern Time

Time (CT)	Session	Zoom	Resources
9:00 AM	Welcome back! Adam Recap from yesterday What stood out? Any new thoughts?
~9:30 AM	Try More Coding Activities Adam Position graphs Task: analyze Position graphs Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot 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 Quakes Task: Identify patterns in global seismic activity Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data Global Temperature Task: Describe the differences between land and water on temperature Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data Tides Task: Identify patterns in tidal height over time Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data, manipulate time series data Leptonic decays Follow-on to the Muon Mass activity Quarknet coding acitivities in-works	breakout rooms	Position graphs Velocity graphs Projectile in Air Quakes Global Temperature Tides Leptonic decays Notebook tutorial quarknet coding acitivities in-works HR Exercises from Chris Adam's Files
~11:00 AM	Change from Student Hat to Teacher Hat Chris Where might these (or your own) coding activities fit into your course? Develop a coding activity and integrate it into your course plan. See Adam’s CODINGinK12.org site and the UCI Machine Learning repository for data sets Create an implementation plan. The format should be whatever is useful to you. How do you sketch out your lessons? Do you use a form from your school or district? You can use this as a guide for your implementation plan.		Implementation Plan
~12:15 PM	Shareout Adam Teachers take turns (5 min each) sharing your ideas for how coding might make it into your classroom.
~12:45 PM	All Hands Meeting Adam Share observations, challenges Closing thoughts? Where to next?

Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 9:00 AM - ~1:00 PM Eastern Time

Time (CT)	Session	Resources
9:00 AM	Welcome back! Mike Recap from yesterday Introduction to Speaker Talk on g-2 Josh Erlich	Linkn to speaker slides will go here...
~10:00 AM	Can we actually teach Quantum Entanglement??? Deborah Zoom with Kansas Center Connection established Kansas Teachers summarize their results for TOTEM Data Exprese Introduce new data Kansas analyzes Green data (form) Virginia analyzes Red data (form)	Links: TOTEM Data Express Green Data Red Data Green Data Form Red Data Form Analysis Guidelines
~1130 AM	Data Analysis Deborah Follow up questions and discussion goes here....
~12:00 PM	Particle Transformations Deborah Introduction to Feynman Diagrams	Particle Transformations
~1:00 PM	Circle Back & Closing Mike