UCLA Physics/Astronomy PREP: this team of scientist/engineer educators designed and taught an inquiry lab activity through ISEE’s Professional Development Program
L-R: Matt Hosek, Dino Hsu, Navin Sridhar
Venue: UCLA Physics/Astronomy PREP
Team Members:
Matthew Hosek (Design Team Lead): Postdoc, Physics & Astronomy, UC Los Angeles
Navin Sridhar: Graduate Student, Astronomy, Columbia University
Dino Hsu: Graduate Student, Physics, UC San Diego
Audience: 20 undergraduates
Activity Name: To Err is Human
Learning Goal: Learners will use the quantitative relationship between error bars and confidence intervals to quantify the significance of a detected event, while weighting individual data points for their uncertainties.
Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117