Programs and Resources

A variety of professional development workshops, programs and educational resources are available. For contact information, see the links below.

Featured Educator
Audrey Grammas

Beauty and Charm:
an Educator's View

• Field Trips, Study Units & Workshops
  Field Trips, Study Units & Workshops

Visiting teachers said of their field trip experiences:

• "Fermi's docents continue to impress me with their knowledge, their patience, and their outstanding ability to work so well with a difficult age group! I've taken groups to other prairie trips in the area, but this one is always far superior!"
• The docents"were great once again. The kids walked out with their minds on fire and a few are interested in studying accelerator physics now. Amazing. Please pass on to your docents and your scientist how much we appreciated the quality of their presentations and efforts."

Programs include:

• High School Guided Tours - Student Video
• Beauty and Charm - grades 6-9 physical science
• Insects at Work in Our World - grades 1-2 insect explorations
• 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
• Web-based Classroom Projects
  Web-based Classrom Projects
• Index to All LInC Projects - Project Exemplars
• Handbook for Engaged Learning Projects
• Student Investigations Using Fermilab-related Data
  Student Investigations Using Fermilab-related Data
• Study CMS Data from the Large Hadron Collider with an e-Lab.
• Calculate the Mass of the Top Quark.
• Search for Higgs.
• Study Cosmic Rays with an e-Lab.
• Study CMS data with an e-Lab and view a 3-D CMS Event Display.
• Answer Prairie Research Questions using SIMply Prairie and Student Data.
• Use Skyserver to study data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
• Fermilab Physics Resources
  Fermilab Physics Resources
Online Video
• Physics for Everyone Lecture Series
• The Accelerator Kiosk and DVD
• Anatomy of a Detector
• Fermilab Stories
Online Activities
• Fermilabyrinth
• Calculate the top quark mass
• Particle Decay Prediction - Graphing Particle Data
• Investigate special relativity
• Study Cosmic Rays
• Study CMS data with an e-Lab and view a 3-D CMS Event Display.
Downloadable Activities
• How to Build a Cloud Chamber
• Superconductivity Activities: Effect of Temperature on Electrical Resistance - Teacher Notes, Lab (pdf)
   How Do We Levitate a Train - Notes (pdf), Data (excel)
• Rolling with Rutherford
• TMP Resource Book (includes Top Quark Activity) - Overhead and data graphics for Top Quark Activity (pdf)
• Catching the Sun
• QuarkNet Resources:
   Penny Activity (pdf)
   Making it Around the Bend (pdf)
   Quark Workbench (pdf)
   Top Quark Activity (pdf)
   Plotting LHC Discovery (pdf)
   Calculate the Z mass (pdf)
   Other Classroom Activities
   Online Bibliography
Online Information
• Fermilab's Tevatron (1983-2011) with an Interactive Timeline and Fermilab's Plan for the Future and Plans for the Accelerator Complex.
• Fermilab: Discovering New Physics - Resources for teachers and students to learn about Fermilab research.
• Frontiers for Discovery
• Neutrinos Matter
• Fermilab's accelerators
• Explain it in 60 Seconds - Symmetry Magazine
• Searching for the Building Blocks of Matter
• Top Quark Discovery, Fermilab's Inquiring Minds Topics, and Research at Fermilab
• Pulse - accelerator science in medicine
• Interactive timeline
• Resources from the Search for Higgs Unit
• Physics Folklore
• QuarkNet Online Bibliography
• Leo's Log Book
• Particle Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology Talks at AAPT & AAAS 2009
• Fermilab Prairie Resources
  Fermilab Prairie Resources
• 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
• Special Programs
  Special Programs
• ARISE high school science sequence
• Online LInC Course
• Nature of Science Symposium - streamed talks
• Fermilab Lecture Series - earn CPDUs.
• URL Lists
  URL Lists
• Annotated list of education resources
• DOE Lab Education Websites
• DOE Lab Online Instructional Resources
• High-Energy Physics Lab Education Sites
• Particle Physics Education Sites
• Science Centers (ASTC)
• Virtual Science Fair
• More Interesting Resources
  More Interesting Resources
• Accelerators and Beams - APS publication (pdf)
• Science Friday "Pick of the Week" Video
• Engaging Students in Science
• High-Energy Physics Made Painless
• Fermilab articles for teachers
• QUARKS
  UNBOUND
  the new Physics
• The Story of Fermilab Research
• Quantum Universe Publications
• "Top Quark Secrets" (PDF)
• Leon M. Lederman's Story