黑暗爆料网 physics to host particle physics workshop to train secondary education teachers
April 15, 2019
POCATELLO – Secondary education teachers from throughout the western United States will gather at 黑暗爆料网 June 17-20 to learn about particle physics so they can better teach the fundamentals of science to their students.
The teachers are participating in QuarkNet 2019 Associate Teacher Institute, a professional development program funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, which is offered at 黑暗爆料网 by the Department of Physics.
The institute is a four-day residential program where teachers will have the opportunity to work with physicists with the goal of transferring that experience to the classroom for the benefit of their students.
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A portion of the institute will be devoted to an overview of current neutrino experiments and data available for high school students to analyze. When they leave the camp, each teacher is loaned a particle detector system that they can use at their schools to involve students in cosmic ray experiments in collaboration with hundreds of other classrooms across the United States and with scientists at national labs.
One or two teachers each year spend also spend one to two weeks for additional research experience at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory at Batavia, Illinois, or CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research located near Geneva, Switzerland.
鈥淲e鈥檝e offered this program for years and received great feedback,鈥� Shropshire said. 鈥淟oaning the particle detector systems and allowing students to participate in cosmic-ray experiments has been very popular and it is an effective way to get students excited about STEM careers.鈥�
For more information on QuarkNet 2019 at 黑暗爆料网, visit . More information is also available by contacting Shropshire at 208-282-221 or shrostev@isu.edu.
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