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

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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 NameTo 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

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