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Particle Physics Education Materials
The Contemporary Physics Education Project, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy, presents educational resources concerning our understanding of particles and interactions, based on CPEP's "Activity Packet." Teachers are encouraged to print out and reproduce these pages for classroom activities.
Activities: Student's Worksheets
Activity One: Fundamentally Speaking
Activity Two: Psyching Out the System
Activity Three: Rutherford's Discovery
Activity Four: Tracking Unseen Particles
Activity Five: The Rules of the Game
Activity Six: Observing Magnetic Effects on Particle Beams
Activity Seven: Picturing ParticlesBackground of Particle Physics
Teachers: Documentation of activities 1-7, including set-up