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