July 23 - 25, 2012: Solar Systems Uncovered

A teacher professional development workshop held at McDonald Observatory

 

Planispheres (websites):


●  Astronomy in Your Hands

●  Kepler Star Wheel

This workshop is supported in part by a NASA Grant #NNX11AC34G to Dr. Bill Cochran under an education/public outreach supplement to his research project “Doppler Tomography of Exoplanet Transits”. 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:


●  Astronomy Picture of Day

●  Dark Skies

●  Alien Earths Online Simulation

●  NASA’s Space School Musical

●  Multi-Wavelength Astronomy

●  World Wide Telescope

NASA Spinoffs (All about technology based NASA research & products)