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Wiki for the Spitzer Teachers Research Project

What is the Spitzer Teachers Research Project?

The Spitzer Science Center (SSC) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) have designed a program for teacher and student research using observing time on the Spitzer Space Telescope. This program has as its goals the fundamental NASA goals of inspiring and motivating students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as to engage the public in shaping and sharing the experience of exploration and discovery. Our educational plan addresses the NASA objectives of improving student proficiency in science and improving science instruction by providing a unique opportunity to a group of teachers and students to observe with Spitzer and work with Spitzer archival data. This program allows a team of teachers and their students to utilize Director's discretionary observing time on the Spitzer Space Telescope for educational observations. Read more about us on the Cool Cosmos website.

What is this Wiki for?

This wiki is a place for the teachers to share (and continue to develop!) materials based on their experiences with this program.

Posters and Handouts from AAS meetings

This link contains (will contain) posters we have presented at AAS meetings, and handouts we have provided with the posters.

Spitzer Student Handbook

This link contains (will contain) a living document, the original version of which was created by T. Rolofsen Moody.

Leftover "Getting started" stuff (including manuals for how to edit files)

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software. Playground to experiment with formatting.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list