VQN Summer Workshop 2017: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Objectives

Participating teachers will:  

• Be able to complete Masterclass prep activities on their own.
• Be able to implement Masterclass prep activities in their classroom.
• Be able to complete the Masterclass excercises.
• Be able to develop a plan for how to implement the Masterclass with their students.

Enduring Understandings from the Masterclass

These are points we want students to remember long after the masterclass.

1. Particle physics research requires the use of indirect evidence to support claims.
2. The Standard Model is the current theoretical framework for our understanding of matter.
3. The behavior of particles is governed by conservation laws and mass-energy conversion.

Student Masterclass Learning Objectives

These are things we want students to be able to do as a result of the masterclass.

After the masterclass activity students will be able to:

1. Explain that a general-purpose collider detector is made of a number of subsystems and describe what they are designed to measure.
2. Express an increased appreciation for the nature of scientific investigation.
3. Describe features of the Standard Model—which particles are which and how they relate to one another.
4. Identify specific particles and their decays by their signatures.
5. Give examples of how hadrons or force carriers can decay into different types of leptons.
6. Describe/show how conservation laws, behavior of particles in a magnetic field and energy-mass conversion apply to particle physics.
7. Give examples of conservation of charge in particle decays.

Agenda

Meeting Room:  2-84 Physic Department

Teacher Implementation Survey

Participant Satisfaction Survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NV726DM - http://tiny.cc/qnps17

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