2022 Rice Quarknet Center Coding Workshop

Rice Quarknet Center Coding Workshop Agenda

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.

Welcome & introductions
Registration (https://forms.gle/VeuyjybWkgMvCUji6) and create/login to Google account
Update Quarknet Account (https://quarknet.org/document/update-your-profile-quarknet-site)

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
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

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

Where might these (or your own) coding activities fit into your course?
Develop a coding activity and integrate it into your course plan.
- See CODINGinK12.org site and the UCI Machine Learning repository for data sets
- Coding Fellows Colab Survival Guide
- embedding an image from your Google Drive (source):
  - In a text cell, embed an image with: ![alt text label](URL-to-image)
  - Original URL:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6wwyazyzml-OGQ3VUo0Z2thdmc/view
  - Edit the URL to look like this: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B6wwyazyzml-OGQ3VUo0Z2thdmc
- Opening a Google Sheet in Colab
- Superscript example: In a text cell:
  - word <sup>exponent</sup> will display as word exponent
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?

Teachers take turns (5 min each) sharing your ideas for how coding might make it into your classroom. If your Colab notebook is ready for others to try out,
- Click the Share” button in the top right of the Colab notebook.
- Copy the link to give others view-only access.
- Send that link to adamlamee@gmail.com and we’ll post in on the agenda