June 22 - 24, 2016: Worlds Beyond Our Solar System
A teacher professional development workshop held at McDonald Observatory
This workshop is supported in part by a NSF Grant to Dr. Seth Redfield under an education/public outreach supplement to his research project “Accessing Atmospheric Properties of Terrestrial Exoplanets: Ground-Based Observations of Rayleigh Scattering and Extended Atmospheres”. 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
● NASA Spinoffs (All about technology based NASA research & products)
● Tonight’s Sky - Observing Planning site
