Quark Teacher Resources

Charm quarks, described in this article, are a type of quark that is basic to matter. A particle with a charm quark deteriorates quickly into a regular particle. A study of these quarks could reveal critical information about matter....

See how many times a paper ruler must be cut in half before it reaches the size of a quark.

Enter your height using inches or meters, and see how tall you are in units, from as tall as the Statue of Liberty and an elephant, down to atoms and quarks. Next, see if you can put the Quarkster characters and yourself in order by height.

A twelve-question quiz about quarks and other subatomic particles, with links to games and other activities on the website.

Quarks, described here, are particles of matter that cannot be further broken down. Thus they are called fundamental particles. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an article series that aims to summarize in a few paragraphs the meaning of...

A card game where you must combine different types of quarks in order to make baryon particles, or to make particle decay chains.

Understand and appreciate the research conducted at Jefferson Lab about the smallest particle, the quark.

This article announces the discovery of the top quark and its significance in particle physics.

Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining quarks inside the atom. 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 along...

This site from the encyclopedia Wikipedia provides an in-depth description of quarks describes different characteristics about them. Mentions how they are different from leptons, the theory of quantum chromodynamics, and the process of...

Try to fill each SUV with the right kinds of quarks as it travels across the screen, in order to make different types of baryon particles. The game becomes more challenging as you progress through the levels.

Collapsed stars, between white dwarfs and black holes, can be studied as quark-gluon masses, or quark-hyperon groups. Extreme pressures lead to extreme states.

In Looking for the Top Quark, each player receives six quarks that they hide on a grid. The players use coordinates to find their opponent's hidden quarks. The first player to find all six of their opponent's quarks wins!

Learn about an experiment that allowed quarks to be seen within the nucleus! This reference page will help you understand how you can see a quark.

Kids learn about elementary particles in the science of physics such as quarks, bosons, fermions, leptons, photons, and gluons.

Learn about the problems faced when scientist were trying to define quarks on this reference page.

Match the Quarkster characters by identifying which of six different traits and three colors they have in common.

This site discusses features of the QuarkXPress operating system. You can also download the program.

The beginning of an informative tutorial on antimatter, covering quarks, hadrons, baryons, mesons, leptons, and neutrinos.

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...

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?

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.

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.

An introduction to the Standard Model, a theory which attempts to explain atomic structure using leptons, quarks, and force carrier particles.