MONDAY 2009 June 22
Check in at Aurora College (or hotel).
Evening--stargazing?
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TUESDAY 2009 June 23 MORNING
All Conference sessions held at Yerkes Observatory;
~8:15 am New HOU conference attendees meet in Aurora
cafeteria to find out how to get to Yerkes, if necessary.
8:30 AM Informal meetings, reunions, introductions at
Yerkes Observatory
9:00 AM Welcome - Vivian Hoette, Carl Pennypacker, Alan
Gould
9:10 AM Participants preview - All (1 minute intros)
9:30 AM New Developments on US HOU - Carl Pennypacker
- 20 min - HOU has endeavored to respond to the shifts
in national priorities and opportunities in education,
and is finding good partners and ways to grow and improve.
Some of the improvements and partners will be described.
9:50 AM Assessing Methods of Instruction
of Solar System Concepts - Michael C. LoPresto, Henry Ford Community
College, Dearborn MI, working with Carl Pennypacker through
James Cook University 30-40 min - A review of the development
and assessment of Lecture Tutorials on various solar
system concepts.
10:30 BREAK
10:45 Overview of WISE-HOU activities
ready for field test. Janet Ward, Broad Run HS, VA and Alan Gould, Lawrence
Hall of Science, UC Berkeley. Summary of activities for
HOU Asteroid Research.
11:50 LUNCH
TUESDAY 2009 June 23 AFTERNOON
1:20 IASC: Scalability & Growth
in Student Discovery Programs - Patrick
Miller. About automation of image preps for
the asteroid search campaigns leading to the scalability
and growth of IASC to 150 schools. Also, new collaborations
and partnerships have expanded IASC reach into a global
network of high schools and colleges.
2:00 Planning HOU-WISE workshops
for field test teachers.
Alan Gould facilitating. Set agenda for 1- or 2-day workshop
with follow-up telecon/Internet sessions.
2:45 BREAK
3:00 Making an Asteroid Movie using
Windows Movie Maker. Tim Spuck, Oil City High
School, PA
3:30 Seeing Binary -- HOU Binary
Star Research. Roy Morris
40 min, Planetarium Director, Columbia Public Schools,
Rock Bridge High School, Columbia,
MO 65203-7198 573-214-3148
4:00 BREAK
4:15 SOFIA Outreach and YAAYS
Project. Ed Sadler,
Vivian Hoette, Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, WI.
Using an infrared light source, trace the light path
through concave and convex lenses. This lab is designed
for sighted and blind students, hearing and deaf students.
Use tactile methods for recording ray paths. Directions
for building the components will be provided.
5:15 DINNER
7:45 PM Breakout sessions:
HOU-WISE planning
Other break-out discussions as needed
9:30 PM - 4:07 AM :^) Observing with telescopes, weather
permitting
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WEDNESDAY 2009 June 24 MORNING
9:00 AM Global HOU and the Galileo
Teacher Training Project - Carl Pennypacker - 20 min -HOU is expanding to more
nations eager to use HOU, and new nations are joining
us. Specifically, teacher training workshops have been
held at a number of nations, and will greatly increase
the number of HOU teachers, students, collaborating
scientists, and others around the world.
9:20 AM Over-The-Hill Observatory,
Phase II. Rich Lohman, Retired teacher and Educational
Consultant for HOU, Woodacre, CA (site of Over-The-Hill
Observatory). Progress since
last year on my observatory—the final product
and issues in
construction and in actually using the system.
9:50 "WISE and Asteroids." Bryan Mendez, Space
Science Lab, WISE Mission EPO, UC Berkeley.
10:20 AM --- Telescope Network Developments
10:30 BREAK
10:45 AM A Changing Cosmos, Global
Systems Science, and HOU IP 2.0 - Alan Gould - 30 min.
11:15 AM Salsa & Chips: Simple Astrophotography with
SalsaJ. Glenn Reagan, Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova,
CA
11:50 LUNCH
WEDNESDAY 23 June 2008 AFTERNOON
1:20 How Dark is Your Sky? Local Solutions to a Global
Challenge - Robert Sparks (on behalf of Connie Walker),
NOAO. IYA Dark Skies Awareness programs, the star-hunting
programs that are part of the IYA DSA cornerstone, like
GLOBE at Night 2010.
2:00 HOU IP 2.0 and SalsaJ Image
Processing workshop.
Alan Gould facilitating.
2:20 Galileoscope - Robert Sparks, NOAO.
3:00 BREAK
3:15 Elementary Lesson for WISE. Jenifer Perazzo, UC
Berkeley and Space Science Lab
4:15 Open-ended sharing - teaching methods and experiences
5:15
DINNER [Barbeque]
7:45 PM Using Stellarium, the open-source
planetarium program. Rich Lohman, Retired teacher and Educational
Consultant for HOU, Woodacre, CA. We recommend attendees
download and install this on their computers
ahead of time. This will not to be just a demonstration. Download
from http://www.stellarium.org
Other
Break-out discussions as needed.
9:30 PM - 3:56 AM :^) Observing with telescopes, weather
permitting
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THURSDAY 2009 June 25 MORNING
9:00 AM Measuring the Age of the
Universe from your Classroom with Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Supernovae -
Carl - Curricula in pilot that uses Sloan supernovae
to enable students to estimate the age and size of the
Universe"
9:20 AM Spitzer and Beyond: the
The NASA IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) (and how you can apply!)
- Dr. Luisa Rebull, Spitzer Science Center, Caltech/JPL,
Pasadena, CA - The program formerly known as the Spitzer
Research Program for Teachers has been expanded to include
the use of NASA archives, and is now named the NASA IPAC
Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP). We're soliciting
applications for teachers to conduct research with a
teacher team and a mentor scientist. We also have a wiki
with lots of information on it about using Spitzer data
which I'll show (and I'd love some feedback).. 40 minutes.
10:30 BREAK
10:45 Update on NASA Kepler EPO:
Animations, Podcasts and Movies; Transit Tracks; Exoplanet
Transit Hunt simulation.
Alan Gould
11:20 Planet
X to Z Unwrapping the Solar System. Jeremy
Amarant, SAGE Planetarium, Palmdale School District.
We will use manipulatives to demonstrate the Distance,
Size and Mass of the Solar System in 1 hour or less.
11:50 LUNCH
THURSDAY 2009 June 25 AFTERNOON
1:20 Astronomy Outreach using Python. Marc Berthoud,
Vivian Hoette, Yerkes Observatory. Python is an easy
to learn new open-source multi-platform programming
language. At Yerkes we have developed a set of programming
activities related to astronomy and FITS image analysis.
We conducted several of these activities with teachers
and students grades 5th and higher.
2:00 The HOU Universe Quest program. Carl Pennypacker,
Rich Lohman.
2:30
Eyepieces only a bird would love:
Cheap Cheap Cheap.
Making your own eyepieces from lens sets. Kevin McCarron,
Oak Park and River Forest High School, Illinois
2:45 BREAK
3:00 HOU freebie: Teleslin access
to Perth telescope.
3:45 NEO Discoveries & Astro
Research at TJ High. Lee Ann Hennig, Thomas Jefferson
High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
4:30 OPEN
5:15 DINNER
7:45 PM All Attendees - Break-out discussions
as needed
9:30 PM - 3:43 AM :^) Observing with telescopes, weather
permitting
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FRIDAY 2009 June 26 MORNING
9:00 AM TBA. Gloria Villalobos, Kennedy Space Center
9:45 AM TBA. Mike Ford, Elk Creek Observatory, Holton,
KS
10:00 AM Jupiter's Mass for Everyone,
Rigorous enough for HS, and understandable enough
for MS. Peggy Piper and Vivian Hoette, Yerkes Observatory.
Includes a variety of image sets, ppt for deriving equations,
and an excel
template for boiling down the calculations so you just
need to put in the radius
and period in meters and seconds to find the mass.
10:30 BREAK
10:45 Planning for next year's conference.
11:45 CONFERENCE ENDS |
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