Misc. Lesson Plans, Activities, and Useful Websites

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)

Please feel free to add in your contributions here or 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://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/otherpgms.shtml

Collected from the Summer 2008 Mercury magazine.

• 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

Teacher resources

• Guide to getting your own good media coverage