Deciphering Stars: A Professional Development Workshop for Teachers

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #157.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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A workshop for secondary school science teachers was conducted at McDonald Observatory in July 2006. Participants performed activities involving spectroscopy, sizes and colors of stars, solar activity, and binary star systems. They did classroom experiments to detect radiation in the ultraviolet, optical, and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. These topics were chosen to help them form a conceptual understanding of RS CVns (binary stars whose coronal activity is studied spectroscopically in the UV region by FUSE). Fifteen teachers from California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia performed these standards-aligned activities at the workshop in preparation for using them within their own classrooms. During three scheduled nights of observing, the participants became familiar with the night sky and the operation of small telescopes. The workshop included tours of other observatory facilities and time to reflect on their own teaching practices. Evaluation on the workshop and the use of the instructional materials is continuing.
Support from The National Aeronautics and Space Administration under an Education and Public Outreach supplement to the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Guest Investigator grant NNG06GA28G issued through the Office of Space Science is gratefully acknowledged.

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