GW Explorer：初学者指南——为高中生开发计算引力波科普课程
GW Explorer: A Beginner's Guide -- Developing a Computational Gravitational-Wave Outreach Curriculum for High School Students
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas（内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校）
- Vanderbilt University（范德堡大学）
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AI总结：
GW Explorer课程通过交互式Python笔记本向高中生介绍引力波天体物理，填补高中前阶段空白，涵盖引力、时空、探测与数据分析，提升概念理解和编码信心。
AI中文摘要：
我们介绍了GW Explorer：初学者指南，这是一套旨在通过交互式Python Jupyter笔记本向高中生介绍引力波（GW）天体物理学的科普课程。大多数现有的引力波资源面向初学者和高级学生，在高中前阶段存在空白，我们直接解决了这一问题。该课程将基础物理与动手计算相结合，通过自主学习和研讨会两种教学形式实施。在自主学习形式中，学生在Google Colab等基于云的平台上独立完成课程。在研讨会形式中，学生在内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校研究生导师的指导下完成相同的活动。课程主题涵盖引力、时空、引力波源、干涉仪探测和数据分析。在当地高中课堂的实施为课程内容和进度提供了信息，调查结果显示学生在概念理解和编码信心方面有所提升。GW Explorer为高中课堂中的真实天体物理研究提供了一个可扩展、开放获取的框架。
英文摘要：
We present GW Explorer: A Beginner's Guide, an outreach curriculum designed to introduce high school students to gravitational-wave (GW) astrophysics through interactive Python Jupyter notebooks. Most existing GW resources target beginning audiences and advanced students, leaving a gap at the pre-college level that we directly address. The curriculum integrates foundational physics with hands-on computation implemented through both self-directed and workshop-based instructional formats. In the self-directed format, students completed the curriculum independently on cloud-based platforms such as Google Colab. During the workshop format, students worked through the same activities under the guidance of University of Nevada, Las Vegas graduate student mentors. Topics span gravity, spacetime, GW sources, interferometric detection, and data analysis. An implementation in local high school classrooms informed the content and pacing, and survey results demonstrate gains in conceptual understanding and coding confidence. GW Explorer offers a scalable, open-access framework for authentic astrophysics research in the high school classroom.
