Teaching Modern Physics - QuarkNet - Fermilab

Fermilabyrinth
This is a computer game that offers the student the opportunity to learn about
accelerators, tracking particles and identifying particles. They play the game to earn
Einstein bucks. You could have them turn in the bucks for credit for the day’s work. The
computer game is self-sufficient.
Online Instructional Material
This area has a number of different online resources for both students and teachers.
Students can find a link to photographs and videos, and a variety of articles about highenergy
physics. Included in these articles are a comic about accelerating science, a
newspaper about particle physics for middle school students and a FermiNews series
called “High-Energy Physics Made Painless.” Teachers can find classroom units and
individual activities. The list of these related to particle physics is:
• Fermilabyrinth
• Special Relativity
• Top Quark Mass
• Physics Activities
• Handbook for Engaged Learning Projects
• Index of All LInC Projects - Project Exemplars
• NTEP Projects
Educators
This section of the website holds a wealth of information for educators. You can find
information about workshop schedules, school physics presentations, the Teacher
Resource Center and the Lederman Science Center. This section also includes the
following topics that have many subcategories with more information: (1) Field Trips,
Study Units & Workshops, (2) Web-based Classroom Projects, (3) Fermilab Physics
Resources, (4) Fermilab Prairie Resources, (5) Special Programs, (6) URL Lists, and (7)
Interesting Publications.
Outlined below are some of the specifics under the category of “Fermilab Physics
Resources.” While the other categories hold much information that may be useful, some
of it is outlined already in this paper, and others are not directly related to the study of
particle physics.
Accelerator Kiosk
“The video for this project was developed for the Accelerator Kiosk exhibit at the
Lederman Science Center.” You may request a DVD or play it at this link in real video.
Anatomy of a Detector
“Joe Boudreau, a physicist in the CDF collaboration, uses a virtual reality tool to show
the different parts of the detector and how they are used to display the debris from a
collision.”
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