Implementation Discussion

Submitted by kcecire

Published: Wed, 06/29/2016 - 15:20 | Group(s):

What things do you think you could do with your students?

Velocity calculation from seismic data. (Marla Glover)
- Description: https://www.i2u2.org/elab/ligo/posters/display.jsp?type=paper&name=purdue6_29-ligo-sci7-royce_huffer-rossville_high_school-rossville-in-2016.0629.data
- First three weeks of school. All types of physical science
Search for seismic waves for earthquake unit. (Royce Huffer)
- Description: Give students a timeframe to examine and find earthquake data and match with date on USGS or other internet sources.
- Latter half of first semester, after Dynamic Earth. Earth Science and Middle school science
Study of amplitude v. frequency of seismic activity. (Marla Glover)
- Description: Counting frequency of events within amplitude range for a given time frame.
- Latter half of first semester, statistics class.
- Data graphing, hypothesis formation, correlaton.
Use of abstract template (Hwa Tsu)
- Using format to aid in lab reports, copy into google docs or word.
- Used throughout year in multiple types of science classes.
Teaching the importance of assessing the quality of data (Mike Wadness)
- Nature of science.
- Compare/Contrast timestamp for earthquake event and gravitational wave event.
- Distinguish the difference between signal and background.