Black Hills State University/SURF QuarkNet Center

A collaboration of teachers, students and physicists involved in inquiry-based, particle physics explorations.

Center Leads:

  • Frederick Schuckman, BHSU (mentor)
  • Alison Bowers, SURF Science Education Specialist
  • Doug Scribner, Lead Teacher

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Teachers, students and physicists working together to explore high energy physics.

 

 

Links :

Inspiring Science Educators Summer Academy 2015 in Marathon, Greece

It is another amazing day in Greece (pinch myself!) as I collaborate with colleagues throughout the world to design inquiry-based online science scenarios.  Dr. Angelos Lazoudis introduced us to…

Inspiring Science Educators Summer Academy 2015 in Marathon, Greece

It is an amazing experience here in Greece!  This week I am with teachers from the United States and across Europe to develop lesson plans around inquiry science. A respository of  these…

Summer Project: Creation of a Data Visualization Program using R

Project Goal- To build an interactive website to visualize data taken from the weather detectors located at the 4850 level (4 Winze Wye, 17 Ledge, and Governor’s Corner) of SURF.  Day 1- 6/22/15…

2014 Annual Report - BHSU

Black Hills State University 2014 Annual Report   QuarkNet Center Name, number of years in the program Black Hills State University, Year 6   List of faculty/staff/student participants…

Multi class multi student flux study

Cosmic Ray Classroom Activity; “Know Your Machine”

Created by Team Awesome (Doug, Jim, and Zach from Newcastle, HS) at BHSU Quarknet Summer 2014.

NMDB Barometric Coefficient Calculation

pressure correction to CR flux to find Forbush Decrease during solar storm. http://cosray.phys.uoa.gr/nmdb-barometric/nmdb-barometric.htm from Neutron Monitor Database: http://www.nmdb.eu/?q=node/19…

It's No Coincidence student Activity w/Teacher Notes

Developed by Rose Emanuel, Chad Ronish, and LuAnn Lindskov during QuarkNet at BHSU in June, 2014

Four Fold Coincidence

LIGO eLab poster: Effect of Explosive Volcanic Eruptions on Frequency Data