OSSE/IDEAS Workshop Teaching Space Science in Schools

OSSE / IDEAS Workshop on Teaching Space Science
in Middle and High Schools

Spported by a NASA IDEAS grant (S.S. Limaye, PI) and a Wisconsin Idea grant, this is an ongoing workshop for middle and high school science teachers who teach Astronomy/Space Science.

A one week Summer Workshop washeld for August 11-15^th in Madison and featured presentations by experts on Space Science topics useful for teacher background knowledge, curriculum planning, and student resources available for teachers. Additional fall meetings are planned on September 27, October 18th and November 15th. WInter/Spring dates will be chosen later. Details will be posted below when available.
Current Teacher Pariticipants

If you are not part of this workshop, but would like to join for the future meetings, please print and mail the application to participate to the address noted in the form.

**2003 - 2004 Workshop Schedule**
DATE	LOCATION	THEME
October 15, 2003	UW-Madison, 1225 West Dayton Street	NASA Resources, Contributed Curriculum Units, Follow up and preparation for Remote Observing
September 27, 2003	DePaul University, Chicago Directions	Space Science Symposium, Focus: Mars
11 August 2003	OSSE/University of Wisconsin Campus Madison	Missing Baryon Explorer, a SMEX Mission proposed to NASA - Wilt Sanders Cosmology in 2003: the Universe Adventure - Jatila Van der Veen Cosmic Microwave Background: Jatila Van der Veen
12 August 2003	OSSE/University of Wisconsin Campus Madison UW Space Place 1605 S. Park Street	State of the Universe - *Prof. LAWRENCE KRAUSS* Physics of Star Trek: A Public Lecture - Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss
13 August 2003	OSSE/University of Wisconsin Campus Madison	Washburn Obervatory: Mars!
14 August 2003	OSSE/University of Wisconsin Campus Madison Williams Bay, Wisconsin	Computer Lab and Work time. Yerkes Observatory Visit for Observing Digital images taken by teachers from the 24" telescope
15 August 2003	OSSE/University of Wisconsin Campus Madison	Implementation Plan for Space Science Curriculum

Teaching Space Science Resource List
Teaching Tools:
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/eds/tools/

Astronomy Basics:
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/eds/astronomy-basics.php

NASA Space Science Education Resource Directory:
http://teachspacescience.org/cgi-bin/ssrtop.plex

Hubble Space Telescope Data and other Resoruces:
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/

Sloan Digital Sky Survey
http://skyserver.fnal.gov/en/

Solar Data and Images
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/

SOHO Data:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

Chandra Educational Materials:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/

Telescopes:
http://www.eagleoptics.com/

Hands On Universe Program
http://www.handsonuniverse.org/

Association of Lunar Planetary Observers
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/alpo/

Amateur Jupiter Observations:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/jupstuff/recobs.html

Teachers participating during 2002-2003
2002-2003 (Year 1) Workshop Activities

Science Standards