2021 FSU QuarkNet Workshop - CMS Update & Coding
July 28-30, 2021
Building: UPL (map), Room 110
Small URL for this page: https://tinyurl.com/fsuqn2021
Wednesday, July 28 (Leads: Ted, Jasun, Jacob, Adam (virtually))
09:00 Opening Session
- Registration
- Hellos and welcome
- Overview of workshop
10:00 g-2 activity: angular momentum and precession
11:00 g-2 talk -- Ted
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Introduction to coding (Jasun, Adam via his Zoom)
- Short video: What Most Schools Don't Teach
- Short video: Pair Programming
- Create/login to Google account:
- (preferred) Google Colaboratory for Python/Jupyter notebooks
- (alternative) Conda/Anaconda3 install on your own computer
- Introduction to Jupyter
- Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook
- Probability
14:00 Break
14:15 Practical code for physics class (Jasun, Adam via his Zoom)
- Position graphs
- Task: analyze Position graphs
- Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot, add a grid
- Velocity graphs
- Task: Analyze Velocity graphs
- Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
- Projectile in Air (extension, if time permits)
- Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
- Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
16:00 End of day 1
Thursday, July 29 (Leads: Ted, Jasun, Jacob, Shane, Adam (Virtually))
09:00 QuarkNet "housekeeping"
- Registration - if you didn't yesterday
- Introductions (whip around)
- Update profile in quarknet.org (how to)
- QuarkNet update & news
- Norms, APS STEP UP poster
- Data Activities Portfolio (DAP)
- Implementation plans - tomorrow (a heads up!)
10:00 Revisiting some classic DAP activities, with a new twist
CMS masterclass classroom prep activities
- Shuffling the Particle Deck
- new online versions:
- Rolling w Rutherford
- slides
- simulation (thanks to Jeremy Wegner!)
- Break!
Mass of Zslidesdata/eventstotal p calc (for quick calculation)
11:00 Planetarium show -- dark matter
12:00 Lunch
13:00 World Wide Data Day (W2D2)
- Video: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Don Lincoln
- Intro slides
- Analysis
- Access data: iSpy-w2d2
- Record results: tally sheet <--use this first! (make your own personal copy to edit), or print a pdf
- Share results: spreadhseet <--use this second!
- Discussion for teachers
14:30 Break
14:45 W2D2 with coding (Jasun, Shane, Adam via his Zoom)
- W2D2 - CERN open data example (from QN fellow Jeremy Wegner)
- Worked out example
- More coding
- MS to HS activities on CODINGinK12.org
- More Quarknet activities here (and in-works ones here)
16:00 End of day 2
Friday, July 30 (Leads: Ted, Jasun, Jacob, Shane)
09:00 Morning discussion: recap yesterday, preview today
09:15 DAP activities
- Finish RwR (from yesterday)
- Making Tracks I (cloud chamber)
- Break
- Quark Workbench
- HTML 5 version, thanks to Joel Klammer
11:00 Talk: CMS Update, Ted Kolberg
12:00 Lunch
13:00 DAP Activities
- Making Tracks II (bubble chamber)
- Signal to Noise: The Basics
- Share-A-Thon
- Link to document
- Note: Requests include...onine resources for virtual classes, astrophysics, ideas for better engaging students, creation and organization of digitial content and "cool things to make me a better teacher!" :-)
14:00 Break
14:15 How about those CRMDs?!
- Who has a detector? (Are the working?)
- e-Lab is back! - updates
- Any group projects? (Kansas example)
- No CRMD necessary! - Resources for Cosmic Ray Analyses Online
14:45 Closing session
- Implementation discussion
- FSU Masterclass 2022?
- Implementation plans - Make an editable copy for yourself, posters?
- Implementation plans - present
- Survey
- Survey Update or
- Full Survey (if you did not complete full survey in 2019 or 2020)
16:00 End of workshop
Contacts:
Ted Kolberg, Mentor
Jasun Burdick, Lead Teacher
Jacob Breman, Lead Teacher
Adam LaMee, QuarkNet Educational Specialist
Shane Wood, QuarkNet National Staff