Data Activities Portfolio

The Data Portfolio is a compendium of particle physics classroom activities organized by Data Strand, Level of student engagement, Curriculum Topics and NGSS Standards. All materials are available under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
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Follow the links provided for information about using the Data Portfolio to plan your students’ experience. Level descriptions explain the data analysis skills that students apply at each level: tasks in Level 0 are simpler than those in Levels 1 and 2...

Activity Name Data Strand Level Curriculum Topics NGSS Practices
histo1 Histograms: The Basics

Students build basic histogram skills required in many of the other activities in the Data Activities Portfolio.

Cosmic Ray, LHC, Neutrino Level 0 Skill: Histograms, Skill: Uncertainty 4, 5, 7
The purpose of this activity is to come to a consensus for the “best” value for the mass of the Z Boson. Plotting a Concensus

The purpose of this activity is to come to a consensus for the “best” value for the mass of the Z Boson.

LHC Level 0 Conservation Laws, Nature of Matter, Standard Model, Skill: Graphing, Skill: Histograms 3, 4, 5
Code image Introduction to Coding Using Jupyter

Students will learn the basics of coding using Jupyter style notebooks.

Cosmic Ray, LHC, Neutrino Level 0 Skill: Coding 1, 2, 4