Programs and Resources
A variety of professional development workshops, programs and educational resources are available. For contact information, see the links below.
- High School Guided Tours
- Beauty and Charm - grades 6-9 physical science
- Particles and Prairies - grades 6-8 prairie ecology
- The Prairie, Our Heartland - grades 3-5 prairie ecology
- Phriendly Physics - grades K-5 physical sciene
- Scout Programs
- Investigate Special Relativity.
- Calculate the Mass of the Top Quark.
- Search for Higgs.
- Study Cosmic Rays with an e-Lab.
- Answer Prairie Research Questions using SIMply Prairie and Student Data.
- Use Skyserver to study data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
- The Accelerator Kiosk and DVD
- Anatomy of a Detector
- Fermilab's accelerators
- Searching for the Building Blocks of Matter
- Fermilab Stories
- Fermilabyrinth
- Top Quark Discovery, Fermilab's Inquiring Minds Topics, and Research at Fermilab
- Pulse - accelerator science in medicine
- Interactive timeline
- Calculate the top quark mass
- Particle Decay Prediction - Graphing Particle Data
- Investigate special relativity
- Resources from the Search for Higgs Unit
- Superconductivity Activities: Effect of Temperature on Electrical Resistance - Teacher Notes, Lab (pdf)
How Do We Levitate a Train - Notes (pdf), Data (excel) - TMP Resource Book - Overhead and data graphics (pdf)
- Physics Folklore
- Catching the Sun
- QuarkNet Resources
- Study Cosmic Rays
- Leo's Log Book
- Answer prairie research questions using student plant population data
- Databases: Birds - Butterflies - Frogs - Insects - Plants
- Smallville online environmental impact study: grades 4-5 - 6-8 - 9-10
- Video and slides from the Particles and Prairies videodisc
- Prairie flora and fauna
- Create a prairie
- Prairie panoramas and close-ups - photos
- Science Friday "Pick of the Week" Video
- Engaging Students in Science
- High-Energy Physics Made Painless
- Fermilab articles for teachers
- QUARKSUNBOUNDthe new Physics
- The Story of Fermilab Research
- Quantum Universe Publications
- "Top Quark Secrets" (PDF)
- Leon M. Lederman's Story