K-Through-Infinity
(KTI) is an NSF-funded program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
in which graduate students ("KTI fellows") team up with high school and
middle school teachers to bring active research into the classroom. I became
a KTI fellow in June 2000, along with AMANDA graduate students Jodi
Cooley and David
Steele.
"Astronomy in the Ice": a one-week course at UW-River Falls.
August 2-10, 2000, UW-River Falls professor Jim Madsen and the KTI fellows
taught a one-week elective for the Masters
in Science and Education program for teachers at UW-River
Falls. The title of the course was "Astronomy in the Ice" and it focused
on the science behind the AMANDA detector and its successor, IceCube.
Topics for the course included:
My contribution to the course was the statistics
lecture, which I have tried to reproduce here on the web.
I also prepared an afternoon activity, building a "probability
board", designed as a possible activity for the high school teachers
to incorporate into their classrooms.
The participants:
