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

Education & Outreach The Spitzer Space Telescope research program for teachers and students has as its goals the fundamental NASA goals of inspiring and motivating students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as to engage the public in shaping and sharing the experience of exploration and discovery. Our educational plan addresses the NASA objectives of improving student proficiency in science and improving science instruction by providing a unique opportunity to a group of teachers and students to observe with the SST and work with the SST archival data. This program allows a team of 18 teachers and their students to utilize Director's discretionary observing time on the Spitzer Space Telescope for educational observations. The teachers are expected to give presentations at relevant teachers' conferences. We are also planning on AAS presentations and if possible papers in scientific journals. Leveraging on a well-established teacher professional development, the SSC is offering this program to teachers in the Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education (TLRRBSE), an ongoing program at the NOAO. This NSF-sponsored program touches the formal education community through a national audience of well-trained and supported middle and high school teachers. To view the Education and Outreach work being done by the teachers involved in the Spitzer Space Telescope research program click on teacher links listed below. Jeff Adkins John Blackwell Kareen Borders Lauren Chapple Howard Chun Harlan Devore Cris DeWolf Velvet Dowdy Peter Guastella Rosa Hemphill Ardis Herrold Chelen Johnson Virginia Jones Susan Kelly Thomas Loughran Anthony Maranto Christopher Martin David McDonald Jeffrey Paradis Vincent Pereira Peter Pitman Steve Rapp Theresa Roelofsen-Moody John Schaefers Babs Sepulveda Timothy Spuck Linda Stefaniak Dwight Taylor Jennifer Tetler Beth Thomas Cynthia Weehler Lynne Zielinski