EA Training
Every other summer we hold a week-long training meeting for our Educator Ambassadors at Sonoma State University which includes new materials and other NASA related topics. Below are links to the materials and resources that have been presented in the past that you are free to use in your science education presentations.
EA Training 2010
Monday
- Welcome/Introductions (PPT - 10MB)
- WestEd EA Update (DOCX - 128KB)
- WWT/GoogleSky/GRB Site (WWT Link, GoogleSky PPTX - 4MB, GRB Site Link)
- Fermi Mission Update - Julie McEnery (PPT - 35MB)
- Particle Physics Intro (PPT 5MB, also used for Parts 2 and 3)
- Particle Physics Workshop - Helen Quinn
Tuesday
- Particle Physics Part 2
- Particle Physics Part 3
- Particle Dark Matter - Steve Ritz (PDF - 7MB, Video - 66mins)
- Multi Wavelength Workshop (PDF - 42KB)
Wednesday
- Galileoscopes - Rob Sparks (PPT - 12MB)
- Canadian Space Agency - Teena Della (PPT - 9MB)
- eXtreme Universe
- Emmy Noether and Reality - Ransom Stephens (Video - 58mins)
- Kepler Workshop - Alan Gould (PPT - 30MB)
- GTN Pipeline Workshop
Thursday
- WISE Workshop - Bryan Mendez (PPT - 12MB, Video - 44mins)
- Cosmic Times - Jim Lochner (PPT - 10MB)
Friday
- Astrometrica - Mike Ford (Astrometrica Link)
- Students & Cosmology - Geraldine Cochran (PPTX - 3MB)
- Classroon Planetarium - Jeff Adkins (PPT - 10MB)
- Dome building instructions. (PDF - 2MB)
- Star wheel (PDF - 300KB)
- Heat & Temperature - Mandy Frantti (PPT - 7MB)
- Mars Bound Activity - Pam Whiffen
- Teacher guide (PDF - 1.6MB)
- Student guide (PDF - 2MB)
- Playing cards (PDF - 47MB)
- Game mat (PDF - 200KB)
- Dark Universe - Daryl Taylor
EA Training 2008
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Monday
- Welcome/Intro. (PPT - 1.3MB)
- Update on SSU Missions Including GLAST Launch. (PPT - 7MB)
- GLAST Music Video. (AVI - 136MB)
- New Supernova Guide (SN) Workshop.
- CSI - Astro Toolkit - Intro Activity.
- Distances Lab files. (ZIP - 18MB)
- ESA/ ESO Astronomy Toolkit. (PDF - 1.7MB)
- ESA/ ESO Astronomy Exercises. (PDF - 3.1MB)
- Astronomy Toolkit. (PDF - 250KB)
- Logarithms. (DOC - 27KB)
- Cepheids. (DOC - 235KB)
- Notes. (RTF - 2KB)
- After the Big Bang I Lecture.
- After the Big Bang Presentation. (PPT - 2.7MB)
- Cluster Images. (DOC - 775KB)
- Hubble constant.
- Computer version.
- Cosmic Questions. (PDF - 4.2MB)
- Hubble Background Info. (DOC - 232KB)
- Hubble Constant Worksheet. (XLS - 20KB)
- Hubble Lab Intro. (PDF - 267KB)
- Hubble Lab. (PDF - 81KB)
- Hubble Lab Graph. (PDF - 855KB)
- Hubble Lab Images. (PDF - 850KB)
- Notes. (RTF - 1KB)
- Pen and paper version.
- Computer version.
- After the Big Bang II Lecture.
- After the Big Bang Presentation. (PPT - 2.7MB)
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Tuesday
- Mass of NGC 2742 Activity
- The Dark Universe I: Dark Matter. (PDF - 8.4MB)
- Measuring Cosmic Distances Using Cepheids. (PDF - 307kB)
- Rotation Curves. (PDF - 9KB)
- Measuring the Mass of Spiral Galaxies. (INDD - 1.3MB)
- Mass of Spiral Galaxies Test. (PDF - 111KB)
- Mass of Spiral Galaxies Data. (PDF - 40KB)
- Mass of Spriral Galaxies Images. (IDD - 628KB)
- Mass of Spriral Galaxies Images. (PDF - 137KB)
- Rotation Curve. (DOC - 174KB)
- Notes. (RTF - 1KB)
- Velocity Dispersion
- Velocity Dispersion Lab. (DOC - 614KB)
- Gravitational Lensing
- Einstein's Lens. (PPT - 5.8MB)
- Einstein's Lens. (PDF - 2.6MB)
- Supplemental Demonstrations. (PDF - 858KB)
- Program File Mac Only. (DMG - 550KB)
- Dark Universe I Lecture
- The Dark Side. (PDF - 544KB)
- Experimental DM Lecture - Bernard Sadoulet
- Large Scale Structure Activity
- Hubble Deep Field. (PDF - 213KB)
- Large Scale Structure in Hubble Deep Field. (DOC - 487KB)
- SN M51
- Birriel Supernovae. (PDF - 869KB)
- The Light Curve of SN1994H in Messier 51. (DOC - 1MB)
- Graphs. (PDF - 617KB)
- Supernovae Lab. (MHT - 641KB)
- SN toolkit Demo
- Mass of NGC 2742 Activity
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Wednesday
- Absolute Magnitudes Activity
- Absolute Mangnitudes of Supernovae. (DOC - 59KB)
- Just What is a Supernova? Lecture
- What is a Supernova? (PDF - 954KB)
- SNAP and Dark Energy Lecture - Michael Sholl
- Dark Universe II Lecture
- Dark Universe II. (PDF - 614KB)
- Teaching Science with Songs - Lynda Williams. (Lynda's Website)
- Absolute Magnitudes Activity
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Thursday
- How do we know? and Simmons Report - Linda Smith
- Penn State Report and Messenger - Pam Whiffen and Bruce Hemp
- Newton's Laws - David Beier (ZIP 145KB)
- Internal Year of Astronomy - Rob Sparks (PPT 19.6MB)
- Black Holes, Spitzer and GTN - Jeff Adkins
- New Media in the Classroom - Pamela Gay
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Friday
- Honey, I Shrunk the Solar System - Neta Apple (PPT 1.6MB)
- Diverse Classroom - Ellie Galvez-Hard
- GTN update
- JPL/GAVRT/SSE - Bill Panczner
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Miscellaneous
EA Training 2006
Tuesday
- EA Training Discussion Session. (PPT 11KB)
- GEMS Presentation.(PPT 15.6MB)
- Evening Event with the Hubble Space Telescope.
- GORT Viewing.
Wednesday
- TOPS Scale the Universe. (PPT 0.7MB)
- Evening Event with the Spitzer Space Telescope. (PPT 24.3MB)
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Thursday
- Monster in the Middle. (PPT 2.2MB)
EA Training 2004
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Wednesday
- Part I: Introduction and Electromagnetic Spectrum.
- Part II: An Overview of the Universe. (PPT 20.5MB)
- Size and Scale of the Universe - Brian Mendez. (PPT 6MB)
- What's in the Universe?
- How Old is the Universe?
- Detectors. (DOC 1.1MB)
- GEMS Invisible Universe. (LINK)
- TOPS Learning Systems. (LINK)
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Thursday
- Part I: Stars and Stellar Characteristics.
- Part II: Stars that Go Boom. (PPT 13.5MB)
- Case Studies. (DOC 30KB)
- Swift Activities from GRB Booklet. (PDF 8.6MB)
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Friday
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Monday
- Galaxies, Galaxy Evolution and Clusters of Galaxies & Large Scale Structure. (PPT 23MB)
- Hidden Lives of Galaxies. (PDF 1.6MB)
- Large Scale Structure of the Universe.
- Right Ascension Wedge Graph and Histogram. (PPT 372KB)
- XMM-Newton Executable Lab Program. (EXE 6.8MB)
- Hubble Deep Field Worksheet. (DOC 38KB)
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