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University of Kansas: Quarked!: Subatomic Match

For Students 3rd - 8th
Match the Quarkster characters by identifying which of six different traits and three colors they have in common.
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Quark Incorporated: Quark X Press

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses features of the QuarkXPress operating system. You can also download the program.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Particle Adventure: Matter and Antimatter

For Students 9th - 10th
The beginning of an informative tutorial on antimatter, covering quarks, hadrons, baryons, mesons, leptons, and neutrinos.
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Netlib: 4.3 Quantum Chromodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
An online textbook containing an introduction to quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This is a proposed theory about what causes quarks and gluons to form hadrons. Article contains a description of lattice QCD, an approximation to QCD that is...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Structure of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an illustrated and animated story that seeks to answer several questions. What are atoms made of? What is keeping a nucleus intact? What happens if you try to separate two quarks? Are quarks fundamental?
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Fermilab: Baryon Bonanza

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know what combinations of quarks for different baryons? Twenty baryons are shown in this resource and you can try different combinations of quarks to see what their components are.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: See Inside a Diamond: Hot Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the science involved in the creation of diamonds by building a carbon atom out of quarks and electrons. Observe how carbon atoms are arranged by manipulating a diamond crystal.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Particle Adventure: The Standard Model

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the Standard Model, a theory which attempts to explain atomic structure using leptons, quarks, and force carrier particles.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Reading Comprehension Passages

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and fill in the blanks of science passages which range from easy to very hard. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Murray Gell Mann

For Students 9th - 10th
Murray Gell-Mann is a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969 for his contributions to elementary particle physics. He is particularly well known for his role in bringing organization into the world of subatomic...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Subatomic Particle Zoo

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the most basic particles of matter, including quarks and leptons, and the four fundamental interactions using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet is also available.
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University of Kansas: Quarked!: Matter Mechanic

For Students 3rd - 5th
Build elements and molecules using neutrons, protons, and electrons. Choices include helium, carbon, oxygen, aluminum, water, and salt.
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University of Kansas: Quarked!: Catcher

For Students 3rd - 5th
A simple game of catch where the player must judge, from the angle a ball will hit a shape, where to position the catcher.
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University of Kansas: Quarked!: Word Search

For Students 3rd - 5th
A word search with vocabulary related to the study of subatomic science.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Particle Adventure: Hadrons, Baryons, and Mesons

For Students 9th - 10th
This article, part of a particle physics tutorial site, explains and illustrates three kinds of quarks: hadrons, baryons, and mesons.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Looking for the Top Quark

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this interactive graphing game to practice plotting points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plain.
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3 Quarks: Metamorphose Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A scrolling application that lets you view the complex changes in M. C. Escher's "Metamorphose II" as one panoramic picture.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Particles

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a very detailed site containing information on several sub-atomic particles including the Hadron.
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Fermilab: Hyperons & Neutrinos

For Students 9th - 10th
The third paragraph pinpoints the importance of hyperons in particle research. Hyperons and neutrinos share characteristics of the weak force. Complex stuff, but the real deal. Parts of this report may be very useful. Many photos, slow...
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Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Atoms

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a detailed overview of atoms. Content explores an atom's structure, as well as what ions are, how atoms bond, what compounds are (including how to name compounds), and what isotopes are.
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PBS

Nova: Atom Builder

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out if you know enough about atoms to build them. The goal of the activity is to build an atom of a particular element by dragging the correct numbers of neutrons, protons and electrons into the atom.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Sub Nucleonic Structure and the Modern Picture of a Nucleus

For Students 9th - 10th
A simple explanation of the structures theoretically found within protons and neutrons. The resource consists of pictures and links to additional resources.
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Santa Fe Institute: In Memoriam: Murray Gell Mann

For Students 9th - 10th
A tribute to the life of Murray Gell-Mann, who passed away on May 24, 2019 at the age of 89. At the end of the article, there are numerous links to other tributes.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...

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