Classroom materials panel 8th IPPOG Meeting at CERN 7 November 2014 Panel members Nicolas Arnaud Uta Bilow Kenneth Cecire Pedro Abreu Despina Hatzifotiadou Marzena Lapka Marge Bardeen Jeff Rodriguez

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

Beauty and Charm at Fermilab An Introduction to Particle Physics Methods of Science Cutting Paper to Protons Accelerators Energy Tracks Seeing the Unseen Using Motion to Find What You Can’t See Magnet Trails Tracking What Happens in an Unseen Event Ideas Visualizing Smallest The Human Element ed.fnal.gov/samplers/bandc/bcmanual-5-0.pdf

Activities from QuarkNet masterclass prep K. Cecire Classroom 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 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 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 Watch student video

CMS Virtual Visits CMS website:  Teaser:  Online form  More pictures:

CMS Virtual Visits Map South Pole, India, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Austria…

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 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 nbereiche/teilchenphysik nbereiche/teilchenphysik additional financial support from Joachim-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 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 Particle profiles Uta Bilow, TU Dresden

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? 17

2005 poster 18

2014 poster 19

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? 20

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 21

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