Education and Public Outreach: Interacting with Data in the Browser

We need you to help dazzle our audiences!  Over the past year, EPO has built many browser-based tools for directly interacting with real data. Currently, these tools have been applied specifically to the formal classroom activities we have developed. In this session, EPO will present an overview of these tools, show some demos, and invite participants to try them for themselves. We look to brainstorm new ways we can use these tools for communicating Rubin science or for feedback on the widgets, data  interactions, and classroom investigations themselves. This hands-on session will be responsive to the interest of the participants.

Slides for the session.

During this session, we will invite you to visit this link and explore samples of interactive widgets. We’d like to get your feedback on the tools (Are they fun? Are they engaging?). We’d also like your help to generate use cases for how you might use these tools to communicate science to the general public. You can provide us feedback during the session on the slack channel (#day4-thu-slot3b-epo) and through this survey form.

Please note that you can find links to 5 full draft investigations below. These data-driven classroom investigations take 1-2 hours to fully complete, use Rubin's LSST data to explore a range of commonly-taught principles in astronomy and physics, and offer all the context necessary to use the tools featured in this session.

Live notes document for this session.


Exploding Stars - Learn how to associate images with light curves, classify the light curves of Type Ia and Type IIp SNe, and use the Ia light curve to make distance measurements.

Exploring the Observable Universe - Use light to measure distances to far away galaxies.

The Expanding Universe - Learn how to populate a Hubble diagram from observed astronomical images and how the diagram is used to determine the expansion of the universe. You also explore the idea of isotropy for the expanding universe.

Surveying the Solar System - Make observations of newly-discovered solar system objects using an orbit visualizer to determine the object type.

A Window to the Stars - Examine what types of stars live in our Galaxy and discover whether our Sun is a typical star. You also examine the HR Diagrams (Temp-Lumo) of several star clusters to look at a range of star properties: temperatures, sizes, masses, lifetimes, and energy outputs. 

 

Live Recording

https://youtu.be/ROj1DyDxQPQ

 
Organizer: 
Amanda Bauer
Day: 
Thursday, Aug 13
Time: 
09:00 HST - 12:00 PT - 15:00 EDT - 21:00 CEST - 05:00 AET +1