The most difficult part for me this week was the labs. I had to skip one of them to go to a corporate meeting and I had difficulty understand the math concepts for both. I think that the actual plotting of the data was time consuming and I realize it can be done on excel but I couldn’t figure out how to overlap both sets of data on the same scatter plot. Aside from the labs I found the lectures to be informative and it was awesome to have a holiday this week! As for the test, I think I did okay on it and I’m sooooo glad that we are able to have notes, it takes away a lot of the stress of memorizing and I think it allows us to think about concepts more when we aren’t worried about memorizing formulas and information. I did think that the test included a lot of writing but with a two hour block that isn’t too much of a big deal. Lastly, I liked seeing how different groups presented the same information on stellar evolution and seeing how a couple groups displayed the information helped me understand the stage-to-stage process.
The stellar evo project is one of my favorites! I feel that I can lecture all day, but a minimal amount of info sticks with students. It's when they get an opportunity to wrestle with the material that it begins to make sense!
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