July 8 - 10, 2014: Star Dust - Linking Distant Galaxies to Us
A teacher professional development workshop held at McDonald Observatory
Other Websites:
● Hubble Images (how they make them)
● GCET (Galaxies and Cosmology Explorer Tool)
● Telescopes from the Ground Up
● NASA Spinoffs (All about technologies based on NASA research and products)
● Tonight’s Sky - Observing Planning site
● Star in a Box - LCOGT HR Diagram Education resource
● Globular Cluster HR Diagram Animation - Space Telescope
This workshop is supported in part by a HST Cycle 20 E/PO Grant (“Origins Connections - Linking Supernovae and Early Galaxies to our own Origins Teacher Professional Development Workshops”) through the Space Telescope Science Institute to Drs. Craig Wheeler, Steven Finkelstein, and Keely Finkelstein (UT Austin), and a NSF grant (award # AST-1302771) to Dr. Jeff Silverman. Additional support for McDonald Observatory education programs 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.
