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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**General Program Overview**
**Vision, Goals & Outcomes**
**Program Strategies**
**Program Components**
**Management Structure **
**Budget & Funding**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Vision & Goals**
**A lasting community of researchers that includes high school teachers and students as well as physicists**
**Goal: To engage teachers, and subsequently their students, with scientific investigations**
**Goal: To confront particle physicists with current issues in science education**

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**QuarkNet:**
**•****	****Provides valuable research experiences to teachers**
**	****enabling them to teach basic physics concepts in a **
**	****context that students find exciting & rewarding.**
**•****	****Develops links between high school classrooms &**
**	****experiments that explore the scientific frontier.**
**•****	****Attracts students to careers in science & technology.**
**•****	****Helps develop scientific literacy. **

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Outcomes: **
**Improve students’:**
** ****Abilities to understand and appreciate the nature of**
**  ****measurement.**
** ****Abilities to engage in scientific investigations.**
** ****Knowledge of basic physics concepts.**
** ****Attitudes toward & interest in studying science.**
*** ******Knowledge of what physicists actually do.***
*** ******Respect for teachers through teachers’ roles in real***
***  ******research.***

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Outcomes**
**Increase teachers’:**
**  ****Knowledge of the scientific process.**
**  ****Knowledge of particle physics & how areas of the general **
**   ****physics curriculum relate to particle physics.**
** ****Abilities to solve science-related problems.**

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Outcomes**
**Increase teachers’:**
**  ****Use of student investigations to develop in students the **
**   ****mental operations, habits of mind & attitudes that **
**   ****characterize the process of scientific inquiry.**
**  ****Classroom use of instructional resources that support**
**   ****student explorations of science.**
**  ****Contributions to the quality of practice of colleagues & the**
**   ****work of the larger science education community.**

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**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Program Profile**

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**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**In the ****6****th Year: QuarkNet ****in ****25**** states & Puerto Rico**

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**52**** ****centers:**** 208**** ****mentors &**** ****507**** teachers**
**Associated with**** 11**** experiments conducted at ****7**** DOE labs & CERN**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**Program Strategies**
**QuarkNet Centers with:**
** ****Physicists as mentors &**
**  ****colleagues**
**Teachers as researchers &**
**  ****facilitators in classrooms**
** ****Students as researchers**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Physicists as Mentors & Colleagues**
**  ****Commit for the long term**
**  ****Attend 2-day orientation meeting**
**  ****Recruit 2 lead teachers & co-recruit 10 associate teachers**
**  ****First Year — supervise 7-week summer research**
**    ****appointments**
**  ****Co-plan 3-week research–based institute**
**  ****Second Year — co-conduct 3-week institute**
**  ****Following Years — co-host 1-week follow-on program**
**  ****Host teachers at academic-year meetings**
**  ****Visit classrooms; host students**

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Teachers as Researchers**
**  ****Construct & test detector components **
**  ****Analyze data & conduct simulation studies**
**  ****Create data sets for students**
**  ****Develop online experiments for their students**
**  ****Build classroom detectors**

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Teachers as Facilitators**
**Assume leadership roles with teaching colleagues**
** **
**Replace current classroom experiments & activities with new ones based on QuarkNet research experience****	**
**Conservation of momentum using DØ top quark data****	****(****www-ed.fnal.gov/data/phy_sci/momentum****)**
**Catchin’ Some Zs****	****(****quarknet.fnal.gov/projects/****summer00/Main/student/index.shtml****)**
**Classroom cosmic ray detectors**

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Students as Researchers**
**Learn fundamental physics while analyzing live online data & participating in inquiry-oriented investigations**
**   **
**Analyze real data delivered online **
**Collaborate with students worldwide**
**Experiment using classroom cosmic ray detectors**
**Visit research groups & experiments**

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Students as Researchers**** — A Bonus from NSF**
**Learn fundamental physics by:**
*** ******Constructing & testing detector components.***

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Program Components**
**For Mentors **
** ****Orientation meeting**
**For Teachers**
** ****Summer research appointments**
** ****Summer institute at Fermilab**
**   ****(****quarknet.fnal.gov/projects/summer04/****)****  **
** ****Associate Teacher Institutes**
** ****Follow-on activities**
**QuarkNet Website - Online student investigations**

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## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**QuarkNet Website**
**quarknet.fnal.gov**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Development of Centers**

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**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**8****-week research appointments**
**   ****including 1-week Lead**
**   ****Teacher Institute & 1-week**
**   ****academic year follow-on**
**3****-week Associate Teacher **
**   ****Institute**
**1****-week year 3+ sessions**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Development of Centers - Program Services**

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**Classroom Materials**
**$250 mini-grants for: **
**Cosmic ray detectors**
**Website**
**Data-based projects**
**Activities**
**Resource List**

**Program Materials**
**Information Online, e.g.,**
**   ****overview, expectations,**
**   ****effective practices**
**Toolkits**
**Institute Notebooks**
**Sample forms, agendas,**
**  ****calendars**
**Online Projects**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Development of Centers - Program Services**

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**Community Building**
**listserv**
**AAPT get-togethers**
**AAPT presentations**
**Cross-center symposia**
**Connecting participants &**
**   ****mentors through e-mail**
**   ****& personal contacts**
**Regular center meetings**

**Mentoring**
**Center visits**
**Classroom visits**
**E-mail, personal contacts**

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**Advisory Group**

**Outside Evaluators**

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**Management Chart**

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Program Costs**

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

**Teacher Support**
**  ****Stipends**
**  ****Mini-grants**
**  ****Travel & Subsistence (Year I only)**
**Project Costs**
**  ****Staff Salaries & Travel**
**  ****Evaluation**
**  ****Advisory Board**
**  ****M&S**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**Teacher Costs per Center***
**C-I:   ****$19,720 ****(Year I)**
**C-II:  ****$13,800 ****(Year II)**
**         ****Following Years**
**C-III: ****$  9,000 ****(DOE: no students)**
**C-IV: ****$19,000 ****(NSF: students)**
***For DOE add G&A @ ****16.05%****.**

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**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**QuarkNet Budget FY04 - FY08**

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**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

| FY04 | FY05 | FY06 | FY07 | FY08 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| $1.55M | $1.48M | $1.64M | $1.77M | $1.79M |

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**A Strong Program Benefits Teachers & Students.**
**Members of a research community**
** ****Working on a team**
** ****Sharing ideas**
** ****Doing science**
** ****Solving problems**

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**A Strong Program Benefits Teachers & Students.**
**Members of a learning community **
** ****Supporting one another and sharing ideas **
** ****Using scientific research in the classroom **
** ****Using instructional resources that support student**
**    ****explorations of science**
** ****Using particle physics examples in basic physics**

- M. Bardeen Aspen, July. 2004

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**

## The QuarkNet Collaboration

**The QuarkNet Collaboration**