My physical science students really enjoyed this Hit the Target Lab. It’s my first time teaching physical science, and I’m learning so much every day. When I typed up this mini-lab sheet, I thought we would be able to calculate the error and percent error. I didn’t think through this very well because my students …
Accuracy vs Precision
After making significant figure posters for my classroom, my mind started wandering to other topics that could also become posters. Last week, we discussed the difference between accuracy and precision. We took notes and classified targets according to their accuracy and precision. I decided to take the target idea and make it into a set …
I created this accuracy vs precision graphic organizer for my physical science students to glue in their interactive notebooks. This is part of our first unit of the year – the mathematics of science. First, we wrote definitions for accuracy and precision. I could tell that my students were writing these definitions down without really …