Teaching with Data: Fermilab Center Coding Virtual Workshop 2021

Virtual QuarkNet Teachers Workshop 2021, Teaching with Data

Fermilab/University of Chicago Center

tinyurl for this page tinyurl.com/QTW2021

zoom link for the workshop QTW 2021 zoom

Objectives

• Apply physics principles to reduce or explain the observations in data investigations.

• Examine simulated and experimental data. Identify patterns within the data and consider the causes of those patterns.

• Create, organize and interpret data plots; make claims based on evidence and provide explanations; identify data limitations.

• Develop a plan for taking students from their current level of data use to subsequent levels using activities and/or ideas from the workshop.

PreWork:

• Registration QuarkNet Workshop Registration (teachers can indicate if they need a quarknet account)
  • create or revist your own quarknet website account (this is done manually by the QN fellows, so it may take a day)
  • update your own quarknet profile on website How to Update your Profile
• Activity Survey

• • First time Teachers Full QN Teacher Survey

  • Returning Teachers Returning QN Teacher Survey

• Link to the actual Data Activities Portfolio

  • Slides describing Data Activities Portfolio

  • Screencast describing Data Activities Portfolio

• ​​​​​Norms for working as a group

  • APS STEP UP poster

  • Fermilab norms poster

• Video: What Most Schools Don’t Teach

• Create or select your own Google account 
• Login with a Google account and try to run this page: Introduction to Jupyter 

Tuesday, 3 August, 2021

• 9:00    Welcome and introductions (QuarkNet/Workshop Overview)  [Spencer]
• 9:15    Student Presentation:  Astrophysics
  • Design a Cooling System for the Readout Board for a Satellite
  • Shivam Gaind, St. Charles East HS, IL
  • Juan Estrada, Gullermo Fernandez Moroni

• 9:40    Student Presentation: Artificial Intelligence for Physics 

  • Telescope Scheduling with Reinforcement Learning Techniques

  • Sophia Zhou, MAMS, MA
  • Benjamin Cohen, Blair HS, MD
  • Brian Nord, Yuanyuan Zhang

• 10:15  Introduction to Coding [Adam]

• (video) Pair Programming
• Join breakout rooms of 2-3 and do these two activities using the Pair Programming model
  • Introduction to Jupyter 
    • Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook
    • Requirement: need a Google account
  • 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

• Back to the main room to debrief & share thoughts

• 12:30  End 
  • Homework
    • Finish code if needed
    • Revist any of the prework

Wednesday, 4 August, 2021

• 9:00    Recap and Reflection [Spencer]
• 9:15    Student Presentation:  Solar Neutrinos

  • Looking to the Sun in the Search for New Physics

  • Arsh Suri, Chattahoochee HS, GA
  • Vedran Brdar and Ryan Plestid
• 9:40    Student Presentation:  Solar Neutrinos
  • Searching for New Physics with Solar Neutrinos:
    • Statistical Analysis of Time-Dependant Signals from Neutrino Upscattering
  • Yu-Ting Chang, Gunn HS, CA
  • Ryan Plestid and Vedran Brdar

• 10:15  Practical Code for Physics Classes [Adam]

  • 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

• 11:00 Start thinking about implementation

  • How might coding fit into your year plan?

  • Would you use one of these activities as-is, modify it, or develop your own?

  • You might get some ideas from what we use in Coding Camp

• 11:30 More coding (pick one or both)

  • Star catalogue analysis and visualization

  • Muon mass: an intro to relativistic kinematics

• 12:30 End
• Homework
  • Finish code if needed
  • Review Implementation Plan Development Guide

Thursday, 5 August, 2021

• 9:00    Recap and Reflection [Spencer]

• 9:15    Student Presentation: Theoretical Physics
  • Is Science Personalized?
  • Jaisnav Rajesh, Waubonsie Valley HS, IL
  • Ciaran Hughes, Ryan Plestid
• 9:40  Implementation Plans and/or more coding activities [Adam, Chris]

• Physics education resources on the web
  • BlackinPhysics.org
  • The BlackInPhysics essay series in Phyics Today
  • Amazing book: Invisible Women by Dr. Caroline Criado Perez on gender and data bias
  • Other amazing book: Disordered Cosmos by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
  • NSTA Position statements: we use the one on PD to guide our workshops
  • CODINGinK12.org's advice on implementing coding activities and the great charts on salaries
• Where might coding activities fit into your course?
• See Adam’s CODINGinK12.org site and the UCI Machine Learning repository for data sets and more ideas

• Develop or adapt a coding activity and integrate it into your course plan.

• Info to convey:

  • Other comments
  • Expected challenges or pitfalls
  • Reason(s) for choosing:
  • Connected curriculum topic(s) or practice(s):
  • Grade Level(s)
  • Class(es) in which used 
  • Activity Title or Description
  • Teacher name

• The format should be whatever is useful to you.

  • You can use this as a guide for your implementation plan.

• Copy of Implementation Form
• More coding activities
  • Quarknet coding activities
  • Adam's CODINGinK12.org
  • UCI Machine Learning repository for data sets

12:30 End

• Homework:
• Finish Survey, if needed
• Finalize update to your profile, if needed.