The QuarkNet Vision

QuarkNet @ Columbia / The Vision / 2001 Teacher Institute / $upport / Course Credit / 2002 Follow-up

QuarkNet will involve 100,000 students from 600 US high schools in:

Web-based analysis of real data
Collaboration with students worldwide
Remote control of television cameras in experimental areas
Visits by student representatives to the experiments

Through inquiry-oriented investigations students will learn kinematics, particles, waves, electricity and magnetism, energy and momentum, radioactive decay, optics, relativity, forces, and the structure of matter.

QuarkNet will establish 12 centers each year over the next five years in universities and laboratories participating in hadron collider experiments at CERN in Switzerland and Fermilab in the US. Initially, each center will include two mentor physicists and two high school physics teachers.

In succeeding academic years the teachers will extend their research work to the classroom. They will also work to with the physicists to design a research program for up to ten other area teachers who will join the center in the second year. The center will have on-going support.

U.S. Department of Energy	QuarkNet @ Columbia Main Page		National Science Foundation.
	The QuarkNet Vision
	2001 Teacher Institute	QuarkNet Homepage
	Financial Support	QuarkNet Contacts
	Course Credit	Related Physics Links
	2002 Follow-up!