Resources for Education and Outreach
A variety of resources for physicists interested in education and outreach (For general audiences unless grade levels given). For ideas and materials, contact Susan Dahl at the Teacher Resource Center.
- The Accelerator Kiosk, streaming video (grades 6-12) and DVD
- Anatomy of a Detector (grades 8-12)
- Fermilab's accelerators
- Searching for the Building Blocks of Matter
- Interactive timeline
- Pulse- accelerator science in medicine
- Lederman Science Center exhibits (6-12)
- Fermilabyrinth, online versions of 12 exhibits (6-12)
- Nature of Science Symposium - streaming video talks (K-12 teachers)
- Who's the Scientist? - Fermilab scientists as seen by seventh graders students
- Streaming video talks at Fermilab including Physics for Everyone, Arts and Lecture Series
- Introductory level online physics activities that use Fermilab data (9-14)
- Resources from the Search for Higgs Unit
- Particle Decay Prediction - Graphing Particle Data (8-12)
- QuarkNet (9-12)
- ARISE - "Physics First" (9-12)
- FermilNews
- Fermilab's Inquiring Minds Topics, Top Quark Discovery, and Research at Fermilab
- Download "Top Quark Secrets" (PDF)
- Articles written for teachers (6-9)
- High-Energy Physics Made Painless
- High school bibliographies - Print - Online
- QuarkQuest, a newspaper about particle physics for middle school students
- Precollege instructional units - free of charge. (pdf in the works)
- Download 3-day & 5-day high school physics lesson plans. (pdf)
- The Story of Fermilab Research
- Leon M. Lederman's Story
- 2005 Database - Search for physics education and outreach activities at HEP sites nationwide
- Engaging students in science using the Web
- Particle physics in the classroom (APS talk)
- Download Resources for program development
- Teacher Resource Center
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