CHICOS
Classroom Activities in Progress
(Last Updated: 1/12/2005
by T. W. Lynn)
The activities below are in planning or working stages. Interested CHICOS
teachers are encouraged to contact Theresa Lynn to collaborate on developing these units or generating ideas for new ones.
Build an electroscope.
Build a cloud chamber.
Cosmic ray showers/cascades simulted with dominoes (or students!).
Poisson statistics with CHICOS count rates
CHICOS correlations with pressure and altitude
Computer science applications: file handling with CHICOS data
Accidental matches in CHICOS: statistics, vectors, and speed of light
Simple CHICOS-related unit conversion exercises