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Classroom Activities

The links below will take you to classroom resources that cover a variety of LIGO-related concepts in science and math.

  • Searching for Gravitational Waves in Noisy Data - A Classroom Activity
  • Hands-on Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Extraction of Astrophysical Information from Simulated Signals
  • The LIGO Star Chart
  • The LIGO Cyberspace Explorer
  • The Scientific Method with a Pendulum
  • Build and Use Your Own Michelson Interferometer with glue or with magnets
  • Build and Use a Simple Spectroscope
  • Powers of Two

If you have any questions or comments about LIGO classroom activities, please send them to outreach@ligo-wa.caltech.edu

 

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