Akamai PREP - Physics of Light: this team of scientist/engineer educators designed and taught an inquiry lab activity through ISEE’s Professional Development Program

L-R: Devin Chu, Stacey Sueoka, Elizabeth Koeman-Shields

Venue: Akamai PREP 

Team Members: 

Stacey Sueoka (Design Team Lead): Optical Systems Engineer, DKIST/National Solar Observatory

Devin Chu: Graduate Student, Physics & Astronomy, UC Los Angeles

Elizabeth Koeman-Shields: Postdoc, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Audience: 38 undergraduates

Activity Name: Light Is Tight at Akamai PREP

Learning Goals: Using the laws of reflection and refraction to explain how light interacts with media of different shape, thickness, and index of refraction, and constructing explanations using evidence.

Funding for this team was provided by: National Science Foundation (AST#1643290)