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Interactive
Curated OER

Neutrinos

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this neutrinos worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about neutrinos from the sun. Students answer 4 questions.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Subatomic Particle Zoo

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Everything is made up of atoms, but what are atoms made up of? The simulation explores subatomic particles. It focuses on hadron, boson, and lepton groupings as scholars learn about quarks, neutrinos, gluons, and more.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Why Do Atoms Combine?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this subatomic particle worksheet, students will read the important discoveries throughout history of the neutrino. Based on this information, students will complete 4 short answer questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Popcorn Neutrino Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students parcticipate in a modeling activity that simulates the cyclical role of experimental and theoretical science. Initially, students measure the mass of popcorn. They also record predictions of the mass of the kernels after they...
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Lesson Plan
University of Texas

Lives of Stars

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Stars exist from a few million years to over 10 billion years, depending on their mass. Scholars perform a play acting as stars to learn about their different life cycles. They develop an understanding of many of the fundamental concepts...
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Handout
Chapman University

Scientific Alphabet Chart - Get to Know Your Greek Alphabet

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Greek alphabet letters are used to represent words or values in science and math. Keep a list on hand to refer to while working through calculus or physics problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Top Quark Lab

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students find the mass of the top quark. In this physics lesson plan, students create a vector diagram from a given set of data. They discuss their calculations and findings in class.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fusion Confusion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to three types of energy transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation. They model the scientific process of fusion to become with the sun and how it produces energy.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Elementary Particle Masses

For Students 9th - 12th
In this elementary particle mass worksheet, students calculate the mass of elementary particles in kilograms and million electron Volts. Students solve 4 problems finding Top Quark mass, total quark mass of a proton and Strange Quark mass.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Higgs Boson and The Mystery of Mass

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Higgs Boson and mass worksheet, high schoolers read about the differences in elementary particle mass and they solve 4 equations using a given equation for the potential energy in the Higgs Boson field.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Ghost Particle

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students collect evidence to make inferences about a object hidden inside a sealed box. They think critically and logically to raise questions. Students identify questions that can be answered through investigation. They formulate and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Particle Physics- Activity Five

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this particle physics worksheet, students use graphs and tables to predict the particles formed during a specific observation event. They complete 5 multi-part fill in the blank questions.
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Handout
Other

Fermilab: Hyperons & Neutrinos

For Students 9th - 10th
The third paragraph pinpoints the importance of hyperons in particle research. Hyperons and neutrinos share characteristics of the weak force. Complex stuff, but the real deal. Parts of this report may be very useful. Many photos, slow...
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Handout
Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: Neutrino Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
Neutrinos, described here, are particles scientists still have a lot to learn about. They are trying to measure their masses. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an article series that aims to summarize in a few paragraphs the meaning of...
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Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Neutrinos Not So Fast

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the validity of research showing that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light.
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Handout
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Case Study: Neutrino Observatories

For Students 9th - 10th
Observatories allow for study of subatomic particles, neutrinos, which are found nearly everywhere in the universe are featured in this case presented by the American Museum of Natural History.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Neutrinos Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Elementary particles are the smallest known building blocks in the universe- and the neutrino is one of the smallest of the small. These tiny neutrinos can tell us about the furthest reaches and most extreme environments of the universe...
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Unit Plan
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Learning About Neutrinos

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning resource to understand what neutrinos are and their importance to science.
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Website
University of St. Andrews (UK)

University of St. Andrews: Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage is a picture site showing how different leptons interact.
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Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Breaking the Universal Speed Limit

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes research into whether neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Wolfgang Pauli

For Students 9th - 10th
Austrian-born scientist Wolfgang Ernst Pauli made numerous important contributions to twentieth-century theoretical physics, including explaining the Zeeman effect, first postulating the existence of the neutrino, and developing what has...
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Unit Plan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure: Leptons

For Students 9th - 10th
This particle physics tutorial discusses the different types of leptons: the electron, tau lepton, muon lepton, and neutrinos.
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Unit Plan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Particle Adventure: Matter and Antimatter

For Students 9th - 10th
The beginning of an informative tutorial on antimatter, covering quarks, hadrons, baryons, mesons, leptons, and neutrinos.
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Website
Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation, read about the life and scientific discoveries of physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), whose work with radiation and "discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons" earned him the...