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
detector 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 Instrumentation, Nature of Matter, Skill: Developing Models, Skill: Histograms, Skill: Uncertainty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
cms-350 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 Conservation Laws, Instrumentation, Nature of Matter, Skill: Histograms, Skill: Uncertainty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
code image Research Using Coding

This activity provides techniques for guiding students doing an independent research project.

Cosmic Ray, LHC, Neutrino Level 4 Skill: Coding, Skill: Developing Models 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8