Classroom Activities

Benvenuti a Osteria MINERvA!

Antipasti
(beginning concepts)

Piatti
(quantitative analysis)

Dolci
(enrichment activities)

How do you measure what you cannot see?

Radioactive Decay of Muons
Momentum in Particle Interactions

Histograms

Measuring the Muon Lifetime

Analyzing Neutrino Collisions

MINERvA in Depth

Relativity and the Mechanics of Muon Decay

We have organized the activities into a menu of options. Under each "dish" below, you will see a number of "ingredients" that will contribute to student understandings of each dish's essential questions. The ingredients list to a number of documents, including our long-form teachers' guide, which also has some suggestions about how to combine these different activities into lessons.

Buon appetito!

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0619727 to the University of Rochester with a subaward to the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.