Skill: Developing Models

Teams of students organize cards depicting fundamental particles based on their characteristics. This activity is a foundation for learning about the Standard Model and parallels the methods used by scientists to organize the elements into the period table.

Students explore some basics of magnetic fields that can be related to experimental particle physics.

Students use momentum conservation to examine the decay of top-antitop pairs to determine what is missing from the event.

Students use momentum conservation to examine the decay of top-antitop pairs to determine what is missing from the event.

This activity is based on the data analysis used for World Wide Data Day,

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

Students discover the rules of particle transformations using transformation diagrams.

Students analyze tracks in a bubble chamber.

Students analyze tracks in a cloud chamber.

Students examine data to find how energy, momentum, and mass are related.