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A QuarkNet Leadership Workshop for High School Teachers and Their Students July 2008
An Expanding Universe: My Experience with the 2008 Cosmology Workshop
The 2008 Cosmology Workshop was a great success with outstanding students, speakers, and teachers. The workshop started each day with discovery stations designed to introduce topics such as lenses, gravity, centripetal force, and temperature. These concepts would be discussed during the talks by one of the principle investigators at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Students and teachers learned how scientists develop theories and conduct research in the field of cosmology.
Day one: Cosmology for the 21st Century Day two: History and Structure of the Universe, part 1 Day three: History and Structure of the Universe, part 2 Day four: Standard Model of Particles and Interactions Day five: Beyond the Standard Model of Particles and Interactions Day six: Cosmologists for the 21st Century
Biographies of Speakers (PDF file)
Workshop Preliminaries
Students were given the Cosmic Extremes brochure as preliminary reading for the workshop.
"The earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, tiny particles from outer space. These particles are smaller than atoms and invisible to the naked eye, but they have enormous amounts of energy..."
The universeadventure.org website introduced the history of the universe to participants prior to the workshop, and was also an activity resource. It is designed to be used in the classroom and includes class activities, videos, and quizzes.
The Particle Adventure site introduced the Standard Model of particles.
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Videos & podcasts covering dark matter and other topics we’ll be investigating during the workshop: Videos: Hubblecast 05 Hubble discovers ring of dark matter (5 min) Dark Matter Great explanation of dark matter with supporting evidence from a galactic collision. Shows & explains gravitational lensing. CERN The Standard Model poses the question of why there is mass and the Higgs field. Explains particle accelerators. (12 mins) Origins Explains the connection of the microscopic to the cosmos and particle accelerators. Elegant Universe Examines the origin of the universe. The first hour explores gravity and relativity, uniting these topics with quantum mechanics. The first six chapters are especially relevant to the workshop program. Entire Elegant Universe series - 4 hours.
Podcasts: NOVA (biweekly videos) Watch excerpts from TV programs, video dispatches from producers in the field, animations, and more. Of particular interest to the workshop:
Workshop Organizers George Smoot and Stu Loken Workshop Coordinators Rollie Otto & Laurie Kerrigan
What: A workshop for teaching and learning modern physics by exploring the big questions in Cosmology Who: High school physics teachers and their students Where: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory When: Summer 2008 (July 21-26) Visit our Cosmology Workshop 2007 site "I have been going to engineering/scientific seminars/workshops here and in Europe for more than 30 years...the Cosmology workshop over the summer was simply fabulous. I consider myself and the students who attended exceptionally lucky. We received a rare gift - we learned about the latest happenings in physics directly from the people doing the work. It has become my gold standard for workshops! I doubt that one could top that event, but I would like to encourage people to try." Dick Damien, Physics Teacher, Washington High School, San Francisco
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Contacts Rollie Otto, rjotto@comcast.net Stewart Loken, SCLoken@lbl.gov 925-451-5530 510-486-7474
Physics In and Through Cosmology 2009 |
