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The 2011 SOCK provides three different lessons aimed to engage college students and school children alike. Lessons include collisions and solving a mystery, recreating Rutherford's gold foil experiment, and a fission activity. Each User's Manualincludes the lessons, demos, worksheets, and a resource CD with instructional videos for parts of each lesson.

Didn't receive a 2011 SOCK? Compile your own by downloading it - instructions are included in the User's Manual links.

To be eligible for a SOCK, Chapters must send an email to SPS with the following information:
1. School
2. Chapter Advisor
3. Primary student contact and his/her email address
4. Mailing address at which you will receive the SOCK
5. When, where, and with whom your chapter plans to use the SOCK

AND
6. The SPS Chapter Advisor or President needs to send an email to SPS confirming plans to use the SOCK and giving the name of the student who is responsible for submitting the SOCK summary by May 1, 2012.

The 2011 SOCK includes:

• Golf Ball
• Ping Pong Ball
• Large Plastic Ball
• Wooden Ball
• Bouncy Ball
• Foam Ball

• 2 Hot Wheels Gravity Clamp packs
• Copy of Collision Activity Worksheet (also on CD)
• Video clip of the aftermath of a "robbery" on CD or downloaded from the web

• Bag of Marbles
• Ramp with 5 Tracks
• Gold Mystery Box
• Heavy Ball (Mystery Item)
• 5 Sheets of nontoxic Fly Paper
• 2 Posters (rolled up)
• Mystery Box Items Worksheet (also on CD)

• 35 Mouse Traps
• 36 Ping Pong Balls
• Balloon Bag: U-235 balloon with 2 marbles, 4 empty U-235 balloons, Kr-92 balloon, Ba-141 balloon, marble with thumbtack
• Video of Operation: Mousetrap (CD)
• Fission PowerPoint (CD)

…and much more!

Contributions by: Erin Grace & Amanda Palchak, 2011 SPS National Interns