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CHICOS for Educators

CHICOS illustrates and motivates numerous topics in secondary science and mathematics. Not only particle physics and astrophysics, but also basic vectors, statistics, nuclear chemistry, and major topics such as energy, collisions, and electromagnetism can be covered using examples directly related to the research project.

The links below provide some background information and reference material. More references and independent projects can be found on our Self-Guided Tutorial page, and collaborators are invited to attend periodic teacher workshops for additional resources.

0) General Info Web Sites:

  • Particle Data Group outreach site, including a very good listing of educational physics web sites.

  • Physics Central, the American Physical Society's public interest web site.
  • Quark Dance includes references to PDG and Physics Central, plus an entertaining, well, quark dance. (Thanks to Richard Buck for this url.)

1) Modern Physics and Cosmic Rays

2) The CHICOS detector system

3) Selected Print References


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