  Great physics breakthroughs are rarely included in the introductory physics
or astronomy course. General relativity and binary black hole coalescence are
no different, and can be included in the introductory course only in a very
limited sense. However, we can design activities that directly involve the
detection of GW150914, the designation of the Gravitation Wave signal detected
on September 14, 2015, thereby engage the students in this exciting discovery
directly. The activities naturally do not include the construction of a
detector or the detection of gravitational waves. Instead, we design it to
include analysis of the data from GW150914, which includes some interesting
analysis activities for students of the introductory course. The same
activities can be assigned either as a laboratory exercise or as a
computational project for the same population of students. The analysis tools
used here are simple and available to the intended student population. It does
not include the sophisticated analysis tools, which was used by LIGO to
carefully analyze the detected signal. However, these simple tools are
sufficient to allow the student to get important results.
