HU-WM-GMU QuarkNet Center
Submitted by kcecire
on Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 23:16
Teachers and their students work together with physicist mentors from Hampton University, the College of William and Mary, and George Mason University to explore particle physics and improve physics education.
Description
QuarkNet physicists and teachers from Northern Virginia, Central Virginia, and Hampton Roads
CMS and Cosmics Workshop in Williamsburg
10-12 August 2015
Tiny URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/cms-wm15.
Objectives
Participating teachers will:
- Apply classical physics principles to reduce or explain the observations in data investigations.
- Identify and describe ways that data are organized for determining any patterns that may exist in the data.
- 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.
We will also provide opportunities to engage in critical dialogue among teaching colleagues about what they learn in the workshop.
Agenda
Monday 10 August09:00 Coffee, Registration, and Daily Opener 09:15 Introduction/Objectives/Overview/Data Porfolio 09:30 Level 1 Data Portfolio Activities: 10:15 Break 10:30 Presentation: CMS intro and more (Antonelli) 11:30 Reflection and discussion 12:00 Lunch (Particle Fever, part 1) 13:00 Level 2 Data Portfolio Activity: . 14:00 Break 14:15 Level 1 Data Portfolio Activity: 15:30 Reflections on Activities and Discussion 16:00 End of Day |
Tuesday 11 August09:00 Neutrinos and more (Erlich et al) 09:45 Level 2 Data Portfolio Activitiy: CMS Masterclass Measurement 10:45 Break 11:00 Reflection on Activity and Discussion 11:15 Level 3 Intro: CMS e-Lab 12:00 Lunch (Particle Fever, part 2) 13:00 Level 3 Exploration: CMS e-Lab 14:30 Reflection on Activity and Discussion 14:45 Break 15:00 Implementation plans (form) 15:45 Reports and Discussion 16:00 Evaluation End of CMS Data Workshop |
Wednesday 12 August09:00 Q&A with Josh et al (slides) 10:00 Set-up and EQUIP 11:00 Set rates; classroom CRMD activities 13:00 Upload and blessing plots 13:30 Virginia QN business 15:00 Implementation Survey due
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2014 Annual Report - HU/WM/GMU
Virginia QuarkNet Center 2014 Activity Report 9/17/14
Experimental Design Outline
This is a guide to the types of questions you can use to prepare students for designing labs
Josh Erlich Talk Aug 5, 2014
Here is the link to Josh's talk on August 5, 2014
http://physics.wm.edu/~erlich/QN-Josh-8-5-14.pdf
Enjoy!
Information on Detector Lesson
Particle Adventure WebQuest
This is the assignment that I use to introduce the Standard Model to my students...step one is to show the students the Particle Adventure website and step two is to allow them a few days of working through the WebQuest on their own as homework. Finally, the project concludes with the students working in small groups to create concept maps on poster paper. The maps are then all put up around the room for reference throughout the remainder of the unit.
Agenda for Summer Meeting August 4 - 6, 2014
Summer Workshop at W&M, 8/12/13 - 8/14/13
All about the vortex cannon
http://skullsinthestars.com/2012/08/28/physics-demonstrations-vortex-cannon/