E/PO Team Projects
Presentation about SSU E/PO group (ppt download)
Presentation about SSU Projects given at Adler Planetarium (1105 ppt download)
Presentation about SSU High Energy Astrophysics given at U.C. Santa Cruz (ppt download)
1) GLAST: Gamma-Ray Large Area Space
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SSU leads the E/PO program which includes:
· Curriculum
materials (grades 9-12) including An Active Galaxy Educator Unit, TOPS
Far Out Math! and Scale
the Universe, presented at National Teacher’s Workshops
· Yearly
educator workshops, co-sponsored by GSFC
and/or MSFC
· Space Mystery
Development in 2003-2005
· Global Telescope
Network for synoptic observations with GLAST
· PBS
Nova documentary on black holes, gamma ray bursts and active galaxies to
air in March 2006
· Ten Educator
Ambassadors to help develop, test and disseminate GLAST-related classroom
materials and activities
2) Swift |
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Swift is a NASA gamma-ray burst explorer satellite launched November 20, 2004. SSU leads the E/PO program which includes:
· Curriculum
materials (grades 7-12): Gamma-ray Burst Educator Unit, EM Spectrum exercises, Waves and Motion,
Newton’s Laws, presented nationally in teacher workshops
· What’s
In the News: multimedia instructional series with short news items
about Swift-related topics
· Swift Gamma-ray Burst Real-time Sky Map - See where the most recent Gamma-Ray Bursts were seen in the sky.
· GEMS
guide: Invisible Universe: the Electromagnetic Spectrum from Radio
Waves to Gamma Rays
· Five Educator
Ambassadors to help develop, test and disseminate Swift-related
classroom materials and activities
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XMM-Newton is a European Space Agency X-ray Spectroscopy observatory
launched in December, 1999. In 2003, SSU took the lead for the US portion of
the E/PO program which includes the development of:
· Curriculum materials for grades 6-12, including a Supernova
Educator Unit.
· CLEA
Lab
· Starlab Planetarium
show showcasing the X-ray sky
· Two Educator
Ambassadors to help develop, test and disseminate XMM-Newton-related classroom
materials and activities
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NuSTAR is a focusing hard X-ray small explorer mission. The program
is in an extended Phase A study. If confirmed, it will be scheduled to launch
in
2009. SSU leads the E/PO program for NuSTAR, in partnership with the Space
Place.
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The Educator Ambassador Program consists of twenty-three educators who work in conjunction with different NASA scientists and E/PO team members at SSU to develop workshops and curriculum materials.
Training for the teachers in the Summer of 2004 included a ten-day long intensive seminar at SSU and Stanford University which immersed the educators in high-energy and gravitational wave astronomy. Materials from the training session can be found here: http://epo.sonoma.edu/ambassadors/training04/index.html
SSU E/PO team members and Ambassadors disseminate curricular materials via workshops and conferences at the national, state, and local levels. A list of future events can be found here: http://epo.sonoma.edu/newsandevents.html
6 ) Global
Telescope Network (GTN) |
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The Global Telescope Network (GTN) is an informal association of scientists, students, individuals and observatories interested in supporting the NASA Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), Swift, and XMM-Newton missions by obtaining and reducing ground based observations for objects related to the primary science goals for these missions.
7 ) Gamma-ray
Burst Real-time Sky Map |
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The Gamma-ray Burst Real-time Sky Map is a web application designed to give up to the minute updates on gamma-ray burst events reported
by NASA and ESA's gamma-ray burst detecting satellites.
This site features:
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lightcurves
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mission information
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finding charts
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constellation maps
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short writeups for each Gamma-ray Burst
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The subject matter taught in this six-session course covers the size and scale of the Universe surrounding us. Your student/child will explore objects from the infinitesimal to the infinite using multi-wavelength imagery. They will write out their cosmic address in the Universe, thus giving them a better understanding of where they are in our world, Solar System, Galaxy, and beyond. All of this will be done over the six sessions with each session covering one size range of their Universe.
9) NBSP: North Bay Science Project |
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A California Science Project site which aims to improve science education by deepening the content knowledge of educators in various fields of science, informs teachers of current scientific research, and models effective classroom pedagogy for science learning.
· 2003
Summer Institutes: Physical Science, Earth Science and Teacher Leader
Institute in Life Science
· Academic
Year Workshops
· Support for Science Instruction in Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Mendocino,
Lake and Solano counties
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Formerly know as the LEARNERS (Leading Educators to Applications, Research
and NASA-related Educational Resources in Science) Space Mysteries, this was a NASA Learning
Technology Project, and Space Mysteries is one of 7 LEARNERS programs. Now the GLAST mission is supporting the design of two Space Mysteries games to continue the life of the project. These games are:
· Web-based, inquiry-driven mysteries
· Aligned with national science and math standards
· Fun! They engage the students’ imaginations by making
them the Space Sleuth, given an astronomy-based mystery to solve
· Play three mysteries and two more on the way at: http://mystery.sonoma.edu
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SEU was one of four major NASA themes in the Office of Space
Science. SSU supported the SEU
Education Forum at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory by coordinating,
producing and distributing materials to 10,000 educators:
· Cosmic
Journeys folders in 2001
· Seeing
and Exploring the Universe kits in 2002.
·We also coordinate the SEU
Ambassadors program.
Comments
and Feedback to E/PO Lead: Lynn Cominsky
lynnc@charmian.sonoma.edu
Web Curator: Kamal Prasad
kamal@universe.sonoma.edu