Lesson Plan: Strange, Charm, Bottom, and Top Quarks Physics

This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to describe the properties of the strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks.

Objectives

Students will be able to

recall that the up quark has two cousins—the charm and the top quarks—that have the same properties as the up quark but greater masses,
recall that the down quark has two cousins—the strange and bottom quarks—that have the same properties as the down quark but greater masses,
recall the relative charges of all six quarks and all six antiquarks,
recall that the charm, top, strange, and bottom quarks and their antiquarks are unstable,
recall that the quarks interact via all four fundamental forces,
recall the symbols for all six quarks and all six antiquarks.