JINA Outreach News
Marble Nuclei Project
Continues to Reach New Audiences
March 2011
To date, nearly 150 teachers have been trained to use the marble nuclei (and accelerator/fragmentation box) as a model to teach nuclear processes to their students. Another 50 teachers have downloaded the marble nuclei lesson plan and activities. Over 700 carbon-12 marble nuclei have been distributed to classrooms across the country. Much of the interest was generated by the article in The Physics Teacher about the project. Most recently, Lansing's science museum (Impression 5) has adopted the model for use in their weekend Science Workshops and is collaborating with JINA at NSCL to construct several of their own accelerators.
