Classroom materials panel8th IPPOG Meeting at CERN

7 November 2014

Panel membersNicolas Arnaud

Uta BilowKenneth Cecire

Pedro AbreuDespina Hatzifotiadou

Marzena LapkaMarge BardeenJeff Rodriguez

• Activities (Marge, Ken, Marzena)• Printed (+ online) material (Uta)• Posters (Nicola, Pedro, Marzena)

Beauty and Charm at FermilabAn Introduction to Particle Physics

Methods of ScienceCutting Paper to Protons

AcceleratorsEnergy Tracks

Seeing the UnseenUsing Motion to Find What You Can’t SeeMagnet Trails Tracking What Happens in an Unseen Event

IdeasVisualizing Smallest

The Human Element

ed.fnal.gov/samplers/bandc/bcmanual-5-0.pdf

Activities from QuarkNet masterclass prep

K. CecireClassroom materials panel

IPPOG, November 2014

Rolling with Rutherford

• Indirect measurement using statistics• Roll marbles to find probability of hits.– Each student rolls 10 times, gets # of hits/10– Combine student results in histogram– Find peak probability

• Overly simple approach: d=PL/2N– L=width of field, N = no. marble targets, P = prob– Watch student video

Quark Workbench

• Quark combination rules• Fit puzzle pieces together– Each piece represents a quark with charge, color– Fit together to make mesons and baryons– Discover conservation rules in quark combinations– Watch student video

Mass Calc Z

• Students have ATLAS and CMS dimuon events• All Z candidates• All muons close to transverse to beam axis– Students analyze in 2 dimensions– Add momentum vectors and energy scalars– Use momentum and energy to find invariant mass– Watch student video

CMS Virtual Visits

CMS website:https://cms.web.cern.ch/content/virtual-visits

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvgb-GQorWE

Online form

More pictures: http://tinyurl.com/neqftye

CMS Virtual Visits Map

South Pole, India, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Austria…

Uta Bilow, TU Dresden

Classroom materials from Netzwerk Teilchenwelt

• Material for teachers (in progress) • LEIFI webportal• Material collection• Particle profiles

Uta Bilow, TU Dresden

Material for teachers (in progress)• Project with Joachim Herz Stiftung• Under development: teaching material in workshop series

with Netzwerk teachers• for use in schools • Modular structure, flexible use • Different formats:

– learning – experiments– activities and worksheets

• Publication printed and online in 2015

5 modules:• Interactions and

charges• Particles• Research methods • Astroparticle

physics• Mini courses

Uta Bilow, TU Dresden

LEIFI webportal• Largest German Physics

Portal for schools• Netzwerk Teilchenwelt:

Correction and update of particle physics section

• www.leifiphysik.de/themenbereiche/teilchenphysik

• additional financial support fromJoachim-Herz foundation

Uta Bilow, TU Dresden

Material collection

• Brochure, 72 p• Background information and worksheets on– Methods– Applications– Cosmology– ….

• Freely available as– Printed versions– Download as pdf

www.teilchenwelt.de/material http://ippog.web.cern.ch/resources/types/brochure-flyer-leaflet

Uta Bilow, TU Dresden

– Set of cards– Matter, antimatter, exchange particles– Two versions with varying details– Usage: activities for students – Freely available as• Printed versions• Download as pdf

www.teilchenwelt.de/material

http://ippog.web.cern.ch/resources/types/brochure-flyer-leaflet

Particle profiles

New poster about elementary particles

Initial version created in 2005 for the international physics year An « equivalent », for particles, of the chemical elements periodic table

Poster printed and sent for free to all high schools in France That poster is still on the walls of many classrooms Most physics teachers we met know about it

2014 update: about time! A decade after the first version, two years after the BEH boson discovery A joint physicists + teachers + communication experts project

Budget significantly reduced w.r.t. 2005, but the plan remains the same Print and ship A0 copies of the poster to all high schools

Additional educational material associated with the poster

The 2005 poster was translated to many langages Voluntary work, no central collaboration

Do we (you) want to turn this into an IPPOG resource?

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2005 poster

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2014 poster

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Turning the poster into an IPPOG resource

Our proposal: to provide any interested country with the high-definition files (A0 A4) of the poster translated in your langage, based on your translations of the different blocks of text

Either starting from the French version, or from an English version validated by nativespeakers Translation procedure to be defined Could be as simple as an online survey with one editable field for each block of text

Any suggestion to go further?

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COSMIX cases: an update

See Zeuthen meeting for details about this new detector

The 10 cases for the Paris area have been produced by Bordeaux IN2P3 lab (CENBG) during Summer

Now is the time to make them circulate in high schools

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CMS set of posters

14 A0 posters

Now available in 10 languages (EN/FR, EN, FR, DE, SB, TR, BL, PT, HU, DE, IT): https://cms-docdb.cern.ch/cgi-bin/DocDB/DocumentDatabase

4 languages in the pipeline (Spanish, Malay, Thai, Persian)