QuarkNet

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QuarkNet^[1] is a long-term, research-based teacher professional development program^[2] in the United States jointly funded by the National Science Foundation^[3] and the US Department of Energy.^[4] Since 1999, QuarkNet has established centers at universities and national laboratories conducting research in particle physics (also called high-energy physics) across the United States, and has been bringing such physics to high school classrooms. QuarkNet programs are described in the National Research Council National Science Education Standards report^[5] (1995) and support the Next Generation Science Standards (2013).