Washington Short Workshop Agenda
July 10-12 (Monday-Wednesday)
9am to 4pm each day
UW Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB) room B143
Mark Betnel mbetnel@seattleacademy.org
Christine Miller christine.miller@bush.edu
Day 1 (July 10)
Session 1
9am
Initially only Christine was present
(90 min) Welcome and Overview of Quarknet program
- Discussion on coding in non-physics classes
- How we use it
- How teachers at her school could implement these activities
- Other types of workshops from Quarknet
(10 min) BREAK at 10:30am
Mark arrived, now have 2 participants
(10 min) Welcome and Introduction to Quarknet (abbreviated)
(30 min) Driver/navigator time
- Intro to coding (they both did it, both are already experienced in coding)
- Remember to MAKE A COPY of the notebooks
- Position-Time graphs
- Work through section 1
(30 min) Driver/navigator time
- Continue working through Position-Time graphs, section 2a
- Continue to 2b if you have time and inclination
(20 min) Review Position-Time graphs, share out
LUNCH
12 noon
Recommendations: walk along University Way between 41st and 45th for many options
Mediterranean: Cedars of Lebanon
Vietnamese: Sizzle and Crunch
plus Chipotle, fried chicken, boba
Session 2
1pm
(30 min) Particle Physics review (Tiffany)
(1 hour) Continue driver/nav work with new activity
(10 min) BREAK at 2:30pm
(1 hour) Continue driver/nav work from session 2
(20 min) Logistics
- QuarkNet-funded teachers
- For stipend: Anne Zakas needs your SSN. You can leave a secure voicemail at 574-631-2789.
- group photo
- Attendance
- Items 1 & 2 on the 2023 workshop must-do items page
-where the data from particle detectors is kept
Quarknet Teacher survey
- If you haven’t done the long Quarknet survey since 2019, here’s the full survey (15-20 min)
Implementation plans and coding activities from 2022 camp
(this workshop would usually end with an implementation plan)
6:30 - 9 pm Optional event - A3D3 workshop poster session and reception, Oak Hall Denny room , https://indico.cern.ch/event/1282754/timetable/#20230710
Day 2 (July 11)
Session 1
(15 min) All Hands meeting
- Discussion of what we want to focus on today with Mark: using the E-lab, how to access, how students would use it, what posters look like, etc.
(1.5 hr) Choice of activity
- Take breaks as needed
- Allow participant to choose from activities:
- Probability (math)
- Star Catalogue (astronomy)
- Sunspots (astronomy)
- Velocity-Time Graphs
- Projectile Motion
- Conservation of Energy
A variety of activities all on GitHub
11:00 am Alejandro Garcia <agarcia3@uw.edu>, CENPA tour
- Leave by 10:45 to walk over
- Go directly to lunch after
Session 2
(1 hr) 1:30 Speaker - Prof. Donna Messina <dmessina@uw.edu>
“Summer Teacher Workshops: Physics by Inquiry"
(1.5 hr) Choice of activity
Discussion of physics by inquiry after the guest speaker, example of how it’s done at Punahou
- Punahou APC packets (answers are posted here throughout the year)
- Link to AP 1&2 second semester packet (mostly AP2) (answers are posted here throughout the year)
- Link to AP 1&2 first semester packet (mostly AP1)
- Physics (non AP) semester 1
- Physics (non AP) semester 2
What else is possible? How can these be incorporated into a class?
- Quarknet Data Portfolio - a wide variety of activities created by Quarknet teachers
- Student Project Using Data
- Sample dataset from previous (2010) Data Camp: Run1A
- Milestone overview with information on how to use the data: Milestones
(15 min) All Hands Meeting
Day 3 (July 12)
Session 1
(2 hrs) 9am No participants, Leads working on CC2 plans until guest speaker arrives
(30 min) 10:30am Speaker - Emeritus Professor R. Jeffrey Wilkes <wilkes@uw.edu> “Statistics in research and teaching"
(15 min) 11am Follow up with Shih-Chieh to discuss Quarknet in Seattle
(15 min) 11:15am Final logistics with participant
(30 min) 11:30am No participants, Leads have brief review of the workshop
12pm Sign off
Session 2
CANCELED