We report here on an effort to involve high school physics students in research on impacts of oil spills on marine mammals at a local university. We believe that the effort described here might be useful to others who would like to involve physics students in research, especially work of an interdisciplinary nature. The students learn to work independently and to communicate and collaborate in a professional environment. The directing high school teacher for this project was also a university graduate student involved in the university research project. The high school students used a computer program provided by the university to determine the types of passive acoustic marine mammal signals recorded, primarily whales and dolphins. The students got a taste of scientific research and of being part of a research group, very desirable qualities for future college graduates. Student feedback indicated that they enjoyed learning to work with the data and that they think they are more likely to go to college and major in a STEM-related field.
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Introducing Scholarly Research to High School Physics Students
Kendal M. Leftwich;
Kendal M. Leftwich
Warren Easton Charter High School; University of New Orleans
, New Orleans, LA
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Juliette W. Ioup;
Juliette W. Ioup
University of New Orleans
, New Orleans, LA
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C. Gregory Seab
C. Gregory Seab
University of New Orleans
, New Orleans, LA
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Kendal M. Leftwich
Juliette W. Ioup
C. Gregory Seab
Warren Easton Charter High School; University of New Orleans
, New Orleans, LAPhys. Teach. 57, 336–338 (2019)
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Kendal M. Leftwich, Juliette W. Ioup, C. Gregory Seab; Introducing Scholarly Research to High School Physics Students. Phys. Teach. 1 May 2019; 57 (5): 336–338. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5098927
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