Taking Research into Your Classroom 2016

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Taking Research into Your Classroom

July 14-15, 2016
Maximum of 20 participants
Stipend of $100 per day for full attendance
Held at Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove Campus
ISBE recertification: 12.0 PDHs

Engage with physicists from Fermilab and the CMS Experiment in a 2-day workshop to analyze data taken at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Teachers will learn and experience first hand the practices of scientists in the context of Particle Physics through activities taken and adapted from the Quarknet data portfolio. Teachers will look at actual data from the CMS experiment to re-discover some of the elementary particles: J/psi, W, Z, and the recently discovered Higgs boson. Teachers will gain an insight into the research process by seeing how the decisions they make when categorizing and analyzing the data can affect the end results, and how statistics come into play. They will gain a better appreciation of the numerous choices that need to be made in the research process and how innovation plays an important part in making discoveries.

The Quarknet activities have been developed by teachers and tested in classrooms to bring out some of the concepts covered during the workshop, like model building, analyzing and interpreting data, constructing explanations, and statistics. The activities description includes a discussion of the various NGSS science and engineering practices that are built into them. Teachers will reflect on the concepts learned and will discuss how best to adapt the material to their classrooms.

We will also have presentations from CMS physicists, and a special presentation on the first observations of gravitational waves by a LIGO physicist. A teacher from the Quarknet Program will help you bring the experience to students in your classroom.

Please send email to cheung@fnal.gov or pjindal@waubonsee.edu for more information. The 2016 workshop is now full, so we cannot take more registrations.

Objectives

Participating teachers:

Apply introductory physics to successfully complete data investigations
Create, interpret and explain the meaning of data plots or representations from CMS
Select an activity and develop a plan to implement it with students.

Agenda

Thursday 14 July 2016

08:45 Registration and coffee

09:00 Introduction: Objectives - Dr. Harry Cheung (Fermilab/CMS)

10:00 Warm-up activities:

Penny Mass
Dice Rolling
Reflection on Activities: Bringing this to your Classrooom

11:00 Particle Physics and CMS - Dr. Ben Kreis (Fermilab/CMS)

Activity: Quark Workbench

12:15 Lunch (provided)

13:00 Special Talk: Observation of Gravitiational Waves - Prof. Shane Larson (Northwestern Univ/LIGO)

14:00 J/Psi path masterclass measurement

16:15 Discussion of combined results and Wrap-up/Reflection; Bringing this to your classroom

17:00 End of Day (Homework: study Particle Adventure and About CMS, write up 3 questions on CMS or particle physics in general)

Friday 15 July 2016

09:00 CMS WZH Measurement

Introduction - Dr Jim Dolen (Fermilab/CMS)
CMS Masterclasses
CIMA
cheat sheet (in the CMS magnetic field particles bend clockwise for positive charge and anit-clockwise for negative charge)

11:00 Discussion of combined results and Wrap-up/Reflection; Bringing this to your classroom

12:15 Lunch (provided)

13:00 Discussion of homework

14:30 Resources and Implementation plans - Jeremy Wegner (Winnamac community High School/QuarkNet)

16:30 Evaluation and summary for NSF report

17:00 End of workshop