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Particle Physics Activities & Resources

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Activities

  • Mars Simulation Unit - with Perl - Perl lessons to accompany a simulatiaon of human exploration of Mars from interact
  • Online Physics Activities - Use Fermilab data; appropriate for introductory physics classes at high school or college level
  • The Particle Adventure - Interactive tour of HEP available in 11 languages
  • Physical Science Activities - Designed for 8th graders and aligned to Virginia standards; from the University of Virginia
  • Science on the Move - Resources and materials to conduct high-tech physical science labs for grades K-12; pdf and html files; from Florida State University

Modules

  • Online Physics Modules - Topics include motion, force, optics, gravity & orbits; from UC Berkeley
  • Physics 2000 - an interactive journey through modern physics; from the University of Colorado

Courses

  • Astronomy and Earth & Space Science - Educational software in science interactive learning for grades 6-12
  • Pearls of Perl - Course in Perl for midlevel students (Newsletters in pdf: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6)
  • Physics of Electronic Musical Instruments - College course
  • Science Works - Online courses in physics for middle school teachers on light, temperature & heat, and electricity & magnetism

Resources

  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Photos from NASA
  • CERN Resources - Online resources for teachers and pupils
  • Fermilab's Physicists Page - Fermilab education and outreach resources
  • MINOS Resources - Posters, brochure and videos
  • Neutrinos Have Mass - Article for non-HEP physicists
  • New York Schools Cosmic Particle Telescope - Information about this program from NYU
  • Online Tour of ATLAS - Links to an introduction, the physics, the experiment and the accelerator
  • Particle Physics in the UK - Resources for schools
  • Physics Education and Outreach Activities in the US - Searchable database of over 200 programs at U.S. universities and labs
  • Swimming in Newtonian Spacetime: Motion by Cyclic Changes in Body Shape - College-level article
  • PhysicsCentral - Learn how your world works - from APS
  • Proton, The Charged Nucleon - Page on the proton
  • The Quantum Universe - Online platform for learning, discussion and further discovery of the fundamental structure of physical matter and the cosmos
  • Quarknet - Links for those in the program, those who wish to join and online classroom activites for all physics teachers
  • QuarkNet Bibliographies - Print Bibliography - Online Resources - Links appropriate for introductory physics courses - high school and college level
  • Science.ca - Science information from Canada
  • SLD - Measuring the Strength of the Weak Force at the SLD experiment
  • Space Science Curriculum Standards Quilt - Activities for grades K-12 from NASA
  • SUSY and the Standard Model - Short discussion of SUSY

Student Homepages

  • Angebote fur Schuler - Annotation
  • Fermilab's Student Page - Fermilab links for K-12 students; a few links for university students
  • Student Zone - JLab links for K-12 students
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