The following objectives outline what you will learn and be able to do during this study of cosmic rays. For assessment, follow the guidance your teacher gave you at the beginning of the project.

• Content and Investigation:
  • Identify cosmic ray sources and describe how the resulting muons are created in the atmosphere.
  • Explain what the cosmic ray detector measures.
  • Manipulate the data in a way that helps them understand characteristics of the muon.
  • Design an investigation that asks a testable hypothesis which can be answered from the cosmic ray data and provides a description of cosmic ray phenomena.
• Process:
  • Explain the data collection process including what corrections need to be made in order to obtain reliable data.
  • Evaluate the data to decide which are reliable/usable and which are not and explain how they arrived at the decision to include some data and exclude others.
  • Collect, organize and analyze data to obtain meaningful findings.
  • Use the data to provide evidence to support their claims.
• Computing:
  • Explain why they used specific computing resources in their analysis.
• Literacy:
  • Demonstrate an ability to express meaning in writing (such as in science notebooks, reports) and come to agreement about meaning with others (such as peer review, discussion).