July 11 - 13, 2016: Exoplanets and Our Solar System
A teacher professional development workshop held at McDonald Observatory
This workshop is supported in part by a NASA Hubble Space Telescope grant to Dr. Trent Dupuy under an education/public outreach supplement, HST EPO Supplement Cycle 22, to his research project “Dynamical Masses for Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Binaries”. 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.
Other Websites:
● Solar System Origins Card Sets - Order through Delta Education Website
(Click on “FOSS Middle School” under Program and Click on “Planetary Science, Second Edition” under Module. Look for “Solar System Origin Card Sets, Part #1408676. $16.90 for classroom set of 8 sets.)
● Solar System Origins Cards Worksheet - Developed by Wade Green
● Super Planet Crash Online Simulation
● Alien Earths Online Simulation
● NASA JPL “Exoplanet Detection” Demo Kit Activity Guide & Instructions
● NASA’s Space School Musical
● NASA Wavelength - NASA resources for Earth & Space Science education
● Star in a Box - LCOGT HR Diagram Education resource
● Globular Cluster HR Diagram Animation - Space Telescope
● NASA Spinoffs (All about technology based NASA research & products)
● Tonight’s Sky - Observing Planning site
