The QuarkNet Collaboration:How “Doing Science” is Changing

Science Education

Goals

• Students as researchers

• Teachers as researchers & facilitators

• Scientists as mentors

Classroom Vision

Science is what students DO,

not what is done to them.

School science should reflect the practice of science and should allow students to be

active participants.

QuarkNet . . .

• Supports learning by inquiry.

• Provides teachers and students with real

research opportunities in particle physics.

• Encourages national and international

collaboration among students, teachers and

scientists.

QuarkNet Origins

ATLAS and CMS at CERNATLAS and CMS at CERN

CDF & DØ CDF & DØ at at

FermilabFermilab

QuarkNet Origins

Multi-Year Program

For each center:For each center: Year 1• 2 lead teachers, 2 mentors• 8 weeks research

Year 2 • 2 lead teachers, 2 mentors• 8-10 associate teachers• 2- to 3-week workshop

Years 3, 4, 5, . . . • All in 1-week workshop• OR meetings spread out over the year

Teacher Support

Year 1 (2 lead teachers)

• 8 weeks + travel + subsistence

Year 2 (6 teachers on average)

• 2-3 weeks

Year 3, . . .

• 1 week

QuarkNet Learning Communities

•Program– 1-week follow-on program for all teachers– Optional programs

• Student summer research teams• Teaching & Learning Academy• Reunions• Cosmic Ray Studies

Teachers as Researchers

• Construct and test detector components.

• Create data sets for students.

• Develop online experiments for students.

• Develop classroom detectors.

Totals (Goals)

• 120 Lead Teachers

• 600 Associate Teachers600 Associate Teachers

• 100,000 Students100,000 Students

GOALS

Goal: 60 Universities & Labs

12 new centers each year for 5 years(beginning in 1999)

Current Status

• 51 Active centers

• 158 Mentors

• 506 Teachers

• 33 Summer students

Multi-Year Program for Each Center

•Where we are after 7 years with the 51 centers.•Year I - Research Experience: 1 center•Year II - Summer Institute: 2 centers •Year III & beyond - Learning Community: 48 centers

– 37 1-week equivalent follow-on– 11 With student research team

University of Cincinnati

Helping Develop America’s Technological Workforce

The QuarkNet Collaboration

Cosmic Ray Detector

•Teachers’ idea•Several prototypes•Collecting data led to e-Lab

Reunions

•LBNL, SLAC/Stanford Reunion, 3/18•NSTA Reunion at SMU, 4/1•Fermilab Reunion, 10/7-9•CSAAPT at College Park, 11/05

•11 centers with 4 student slots each

2006 Student Summer Research

A taste of a succulent future InvaluableExperienceAstounded by the beauty &

simplicity of the particlesthat define our existence

Continually challenged me

Too much fun

Budget

• Teacher Support

• Staff Salaries and Travel

• Evaluation

• Advisory Board

• Materials & Supplies

• NSF ESIE grant

• NSF Experimental Particle Physics support

• DOE High-Energy Physics support

• ATLAS & CMS education support

• Research groups & dept.’s in-kind contributions

Funding

QuarkNet Team

•PIs Staff Teachers•Keith Baker Ken Cecire, Hampton U•Marge Bardeen Tom Jordan, Bob Peterson, FNAL•Michael Barnett Kris Whelan, LBNL •Dan Karmgard, Mitch Wayne Beth Marchant, Notre Dame

•Support Staff•Carol Angarola, LaMargo Gill, FNAL •Sue Dobbins, Notre Dame