2024 Summer Center Workshop Agenda Sketch

8:30 - 9:00

• Welcome
  • Introductions (School, subjects, favorite science teaching moment)

9:00- 9:30

• Norms
• Parking lot
• Hopes and fears
• Who and What is Quarknet?
• Objectives
• Step Up poster

9:30-10:15

• Video: Pair programming how-to (YouTube)
• Video: What Most Schools Don’t Teach

10:15-11:30

• Introduction to Jupyter 
  • Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook
• Probability
  • Task: Simulate flipping a coin and make a histogram of the number of heads for each trial.
  • Skills: generate random numbers, create and format a histogram

11:30-12:00

• Share observations, challenges
• How do you think your students would handle these tasks?

1:00-2:30

• Muon mass
  • Task: measure the invariant mass of a muon
  • Skills: calculate invariant mass given its 4-vector (energy and x/y/z-momentum), make a mass plot

2:30-3:00

• Play around with another activity
• Quarknet Github (scroll to the the bottom for activities by subject)
• Data activities portfolio

3:00-3:30

• Work on Must do items
• Quarknet website

8:30 - 8:45

• Recap
  • Stand outs from yesterday?
  • New thoughts?

9:45- 12:00

• Teacher hat time!
  • Where might these (or your own) coding activities fit into your course?
  • Develop a coding activity and integrate it into your course plan.
  • See Adam’s CODINGinK12.org site and the UCI Machine Learning repository for data sets, or search the web for something that interests you.
• Create an implementation plan.
  • The format should be whatever is useful to you. How do you sketch out your lessons? Do you use a form from your school or district?
  • Share implementation plans here.

12:00-1:00

• Lunch Break

1:00-2:00

• Finish creating activity and putting together implementation plan

2:00-3:00

• Share out Implementation plans. 

3:00-3:30

• Work on Must do items

8:30 - 8:45

• Recap
  • Stand outs from yesterday?
  • New thoughts?

8:45-9:45

• Shareathon
  • Teachers share activities that work well in their classrooms
  • Actually do some of the activities

9:45-10:00

• Drive to MagLab

10:00-11:00

• MagLab Tour

11:00-11:15

• Drive back to FSU

11:15-12:00

• Finish Shareathon

12:00-1:00

• Lunch

1:00-3:00

• A taste of Neutrinos (Shane)

3:00-3:30

• Wrap up
  • Share contacts if approved
  • Announce next center event
  • Finish Must do items