Teacher's Guide

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Table of Contents

Introductory Articles

• General Introduction
• "Dear Educator..." welcome from the Project Director
• Setting out on an "Electronic Field Trip"
• How to Use this Guide
• "Hubble meet Hubble" the astronomer and the telescope
• Live From... and science reform
• Opening Activities: Project Objectives/Program 1
• Activity 1A - Planet Tours, Inc.
• Activity 1B - Painting Planets
• Activity 1C - The Great Student Solar System Model

Program 2: Description

• Activity 2A Using a Concave Mirror to focus Radiation
• Activity 2B Hubble: A Very Big Eye in the Sky
• Activity 2C Observing "Moving Targets" with the HST
• Activity 2D Bouncing Data Around the World
• Activity 2E Pictures from Outer Space

Program 3: Description

• Progrm 3 Description
• Activity 3A The Universe in Living Color
• Activity 3B Watching the Weather Move
• Activity 3C Planetary Storms/Observing Convection Currents
• Activity 3D The Interplanetary Weather Report

Activity 4 and Closing

• Activity 4A Writing Across the Solar System
• Activity 4B "Lights... Camera... the Universe!"
• Activity 4C Hubble in the Headlines
• Glossary
• Going On-Line: an educator's primer
• Resources
• Student Evaluation form - now available online
• Teacher Evaluation form - now available online
• Content/Process Grid
• Data Signal Path/Activity 2D Diagram