Fall 2022 Hawaii QuarkNet Workshop & 2022 APS FWS Meeting

Teacher Workshop Dates: Oct. 6-7, 2022 (Thursday & Friday)

• Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa: Watanabe Hall, Room 417A
• SMALL URL FOR THIS PAGE: https://tinyurl.com/hiqn22

2022 APS FWS Meeting Dates: Oct. 7-8, 2022 (Friday & Saturday) - Optional

• 2022 APS FWS page and 2022 APS FWS program/schedule
• Teachers: (Optional) Register at the $50 teacher rate, and QuarkNet will reimburse you.
  • Registration includes dinner on Friday evening.

Teacher Agenda Overview:

DETAILED TEACHER WORKSHOP AGENDA:

Thursday (October 6):

09:00   Opening Session

• Welcome/intros, sign-in
• Registration
• APS STEP UP poster & Fermilab norms poster
• A look at the Data Activities Portfolio (DAP)
• QuarkNet Update

09:45   DAP Activity: Shuffling the Particle Deck

• Intro with "big to small"
• The Standard Model

10:15   DAP Activity: 1-2 QuarkNet "classics" - Masterclass Prep

• R with R (slides)
• Break
• Mass of the Z (slides, helpful spreadsheet)

12:00   LUNCH 

13:00   World Wide Data Day (W2D2) measurement - link to full W2D2 resources

• Video: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Don Lincoln
• Intro slides
• Analysis
  • Access data: iSpy-w2d2
  • Record results: printout of Tally Sheet <--use this first! 
  • Share results: spreadhseet <--use this second! (after you have analyzed all of your events
  • Worldwide results: spreadsheet <---use this last for concluding discussion
• Discussion - teacher notes
• W2D2 2022 will be on November 10, 2022 and will include an additional measurement as well. Stay tuned!

14:30   Break

14:45   Cosmic Ray Mini-Session (Michael)

• Link to PDF - data
• Cosmic Ray e-Lab

15:15   Intro coding videos (prep for tomorrow)

• Pair programming
• What Most Schools Don’t Teach

15:45   End of Day Discussion/Q&A

16:00 End-of-day

Friday (October 7) - Coding & APS FWS:

09:00   Opening Discussion, Sign-in

• Update QN profile (Shane)

09:15   Welcome to Coding! (Tiffany)
            Try Pair Programming by sitting with a partner and using 1 computer
            Work through Intro together to become familiar with Google Colab

09:30   Coding Activities

• 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 
• Position graphs 
  • Task: analyze Position graphs
  • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot 

10:30   Discussion: Where are we now?

10:45   Break

11:00   Coding, cont.

• 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

12:00   LUNCH

13:00   Coding Extension

• Star Catalogue
  • Task: Create an HR Diagram from a large dataset of stars
  • Skills: Pull data, identify dataset columns, change axes on plot

14:15   Discussion: Where are we now?

14:30   Closing Discussion (Shane)

• Implementation Discussion
• QuarkNet Survey
  • Survey Update OR
  • Full Survey (if you did not complete full survey anytime in 2019-2021)

15:00 Workshop ends - (Optional: Attend APS FWS, APS dinner)

More Coding Resources/Tools:

• GitHub
• Colab Survival Guide
• Introduction to Coding Using Jupyter
• Velocity graphs
  • Task: Analyze Velocity graphs
  • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
• Projectile in Air
  • Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
  • Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
• Quakes

• Task: Identify patterns in global seismic activity
• Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data

• Global Temperature
  • Task: Describe the differences between land and water on temperature
  • Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data
• Tides
  • Task: Identify patterns in tidal height over time
  • Skills: read in a large data set from the web, visualize complex data, manipulate time series data
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Contacts:

• Veronica Bindi, Hawaii Mentor
• Michael Jones, Hawaii Mentor
• Jason Kumar, Hawaii Mentor
• Tiffany Coke, Lead Teacher & Coding Fellow
• Shane Wood, QuarkNet Staff

Additional Resources:

• Beginning and End of the Bomb booklet - link (Michael Jones)
• Learn Genetics Cell Size Demonstration - link (Alyssa MacDonald)