July 26 - 29, 2013: EXES: Bringing Real Astronomical Data into the Classroom

A teacher professional development workshop held at McDonald Observatory

 

Planispheres (websites):


●  Astronomy in Your Hands

●  Kepler Star Wheel

Other Websites:


●  Astronomy Picture of Day

●  Hubble Images (how they make them)

●  Dark Skies

●  Multi-Wavelength Astronomy

●  World Wide Telescope

●  GCET (Galaxies and Cosmology Explorer Tool)

●  Zooniverse

●  LCOGT Agent Exoplanet Education Activity & Data

●  Kitt Peak Astronomy Research for Education Projects

●  NASA WISE Data and Images Tutorials

●  NASA WISE Data Archive (IPAC)

●  SDSS Asteroids search tool for education

●  Chandra Pulsating Variable Stars Activity and Website



This workshop is supported in part by a National Science Foundation Grant to Dr. Chris Sneden under an education/public outreach supplement to the research project “The Chemical Compositions of Galactic Halo Field and Cluster Stars”. Additional support was provided by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, Carolyn Keenan and Charlie Gaines, Hugh Gragg, Lynn Lyles Brill, Leonard Tedesco, and Bill and Alice Wright.  We also thank Joe and Lucy Parsley for support of the Texas Galileo Teacher Training Program.