QNI Overview
Fermilab: 26 June-2 July 2005
During the week, you will be working in small, collaborative teams. Each team will analyze data collected from the network of of classroom cosmic ray detectors arrayed across the U.S. We will ask you to explore the science, derive a few research questions, investigate these and share your results in our poster session at the end of the week.
Goals
We hope that you will learn about physics, teamwork, and teaching during the week's activities. Here are a few specific goals we'd like you to keep in mind:Particle Physics
Pedagogy
- Strengthen and reinforce your understanding of techniques to detect charge particles.
- Unravel and describe processes that convert energy to mass.
- Explore the role that digital electronics play in the collection, generation and processing of data.
- Reflect on how this activity either does or does not reflect scientific inquiry, and how it affects you as a student and as a teacher.
- Develop and practice teamwork norms that you can use in your classroom.
- Reflect on how this or a similar activity would need to be modified for use in your classroom.
Getting Started
Each of you is a staff scientist working in a collaboration studying cosmic rays. Your small group may investigate one or several topics under the supervision of the sometimes-helpful and usually-demanding Level-3 project managers, who have scheduled an all-hands conference later this week to discuss your results.
The first step in the process is to read the Invitation letter, which just arrived today from the Level-3 managers. This gives your team its charge for the remainder of the week.
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