Spitzer Space Telescope Research Program for Teachers and Students

PROGRAM INFORMATION + Home Page + Round 1 + Round 2 + Round 3 + Program News + Education & Outreach + Educational Products + AAS Posters + Photos + Press Releases + Visiting the SSC OBSERVING PROPOSALS Star Formation in Lynds Dark Nebulae + Round 3 Spitzer Light Curve of Z Cha + Round 3 IRAC Monitoring of NGC 4051 for Interday Variability + Round 3 Star Formation in High Redshift Clusters with Spitzer + Round 2 Young Stars in IC 2118 + Round 1 + Round 2 Observing Iron Stars with Spitzer + Round 1 Intergalactic Star Formation in Tidal Dwarf Galaxies of M81 + Round 1 AGN Spectral Energy Distributions of GLAST Telescope Network Program Objects + Round 1 + Round 2 + Student Project The Supermassive Black Hole in Arp102B + Round 1 Detecting Brown Dwarfs in Interacting Cataclysmic Binaries + Round 1 + Round 2

Products The Cool Wiki is a new resource, designed to provide a place for teachers, students, and scientists to interact and share the materials they've developed, work on new materials, and work on current projects. The wiki also provides a resource for new teachers to learn how to use the materials we've developed. The wiki is a dynamic place, constantly changing and growing! Materials generated by the IC2118 and M81 teacher teams and distributed in support of posters presented at the January 2007 AAS. The teachers who wrote these documents are: Theresa Roelofsen Moody, New Jersey Astronomy Center for Education, Somerville, NJ (IC2118 and M81 teams, lead, M81 team) Timothy Spuck, Oil City Area Sr. High School, Oil City, PA (IC2118 and M81 teams; lead, IC2118 team) Babs Sepulveda, Lincoln High School,Stockton, CA (IC2118 and M81 teams) Cynthia Weehler, Luther Burbank High School, San Antonio, TX (IC2118 and M81 teams) Tony Maranto, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH (IC2118 team) Materials available here are: Roelofsen Moody et al. Jan 2007 poster: "Spitzer Space Telescope Research Program for Teachers and Students: Using Spitzer data in your classroom with (relatively) simple software" (pdf) Spuck et al. Jan 2007 poster: "Spitzer Observations of YSO's in the Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118)" (pdf) Excel file for converting fluxes measured with MaxIm DL to Janskys (see Roelofsen Moody et al. poster) Instructions to go with xls file above Spitzer Student Handbook, version 6 (pdf) Also see Spuck et al. Jan 2006 poster: "Spitzer Observations of Young Stars in the Witch Head Nebula" Weehler et al. Jan 2006 poster: "Spitzer Space Telescope Research Program for Teachers and Students: Young Stars in the Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118)" Materials generated by the Z Cha teacher team and distributed in support of posters presented at the January 2008 AAS. Interacting Binary Star System Activity - Make a physical 3-D model of an interacting binary star system using light bulbs, meter, and a solar cell that will enable students to actively measure and record the luminosities of the system in different orientations, thus simulating real interacting binary star systems. Binary Star Model - Make a physical model of a binary star system that demonstrates the components of which it is made, including the accretion disk.