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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 (with the help of a mentor astronomer) to use 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 participants (teachers and scientists and maybe students too) to share (and continue to develop!) materials based on their experiences with this program.
Anyone can view these pages, but if you'd like to edit them, please email Luisa to get an account set up.
Posters and Handouts from AAS meetings
This link contains posters we have presented at AAS meetings, and handouts we have provided with the posters. Other groups should upload and add in their posters!
Spitzer Student Handbook
This link contains a guide for students written by teachers. The original version of this was created by T. Roelofsen Moody.
Information for teachers: Units
The units of Spitzer images can be tricky. This page has a lot of information about these units and how to convert them into more familiar units.
Leftover "Getting started on the wiki" stuff (including manuals for how to edit files)
Consult the User's Guide for tons of information on using (including editing files with) the wiki software. Playground to experiment with formatting.
