Misc. Lesson Plans, Activities, and Useful Websites

Lesson Plans/Activities

See our main page here: http://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu/resource_category/4-For-the-classroom

Please feel free to add in your contributions by emailing Luisa or posting elsewhere on the wiki!

Other websites/programs set up to let you do research

our list of programs using real data, sorted by wavelength, is here: http://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu/page/other_epo_programs

Several sites collected from the Summer 2008 Mercury magazine - this is old enough that some sites may be defunct now!

• Galaxy zoo - classify galaxies
• Stardust@home - search for interstellar dust particles in aerogel
• Clickworkers - find and classify Martian craters
• SOHO comets - find Sun-grazing comets
• Systemic project - identify and classify planets around other stars
• INSPIRE - interactions between Sun and our atmosphere (you need equipment to do this)
• RadioJove - interactions between Sun and Jupiter