Difference between revisions of "Misc. Lesson Plans, Activities, and Useful Websites"

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=Other websites/programs set up to let you do research=
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Collected from [http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/mercury.html the Summer 2008 Mercury magazine].
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*[http://galaxyzoo.org/ Galaxy zoo] - classify galaxies
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*[http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Stardust@home] - search for interstellar dust particles in aerogel
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*[http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top Clickworkers] - find and classify Martian craters
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*[http://ares.nrl.navy.mil/sungrazer SOHO comets] - find Sun-grazing comets
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*[http://oklo.org/ Systemic project] - identify and classify planets around other stars
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*[http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/inspire INSPIRE] - interactions between Sun and our atmosphere (you need equipment to do this)
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*[http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/ RadioJove] - interactions between Sun and Jupiter

Revision as of 03:57, 12 September 2008

Lesson Plans/Activities

  • Classroom activity packet from David W. McDonald, Joy-Lyn McDonald and Micah McDonald: "Making pretty pictures: How Astronomers make images" : download pdf here (version 4.0)


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Other websites/programs set up to let you do research

Collected from the Summer 2008 Mercury magazine.