2021 SMU Coding Workshop

SMU Virtual Coding Workshop

Objectives

Participating teachers will:

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.

Introduction to Jupyter
- Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook
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

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

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

NSTA Position Statements are great. Adam mentioned the one on professional development.
Where might these (or your own) coding activities fit into your course?
Start developing a coding activity and integrate it into your course plan.
- See Adam’s CODINGinK12.org site and the UCI Machine Learning repository for data sets

Create an implementation plan.
- The format should be whatever is useful to you. How do you sketch out your lessons? Do you use a form from your school or district?
- You can use this as a guide for your implementation plan.

5 minutes of each camper “Driving” one notebook; 5 minutes of feedback/questions
Briefly decide upon ONE activity (of the four) that you want to “showcase” to the whole group
listen and watch as a student might, and author can write # comments/feedback into the notebook