Seeing the Moon In a New Light: Educational Resources Developed in Association with M3

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Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmed41a0523r&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #ED41A-0523

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[0805] Education / Elementary And Secondary Education, [0845] Education / Instructional Tools, [5410] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Composition

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M3 is a high spatial and spectral resolution spectrometer designed to help scientists better understand the compositional variation of the Moon’s surface. Flown on India’s first spacecraft to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, M3 collected over 4.6 billion spectra! To facilitate student awareness and understanding of these data and resulting imagery, our team co-sponsors an on-line course, Geology of the Moon, for pre- and in-service teachers through Montana State University and has generated an educator guide: Seeing the Moon: Using Light to Investigate the Moon. This guide is a series of educational inquiry-based and hands-on activity modules created in support of the M3 science. In these modules, students investigate the physics of light and the geologic history of the Moon. Through these dynamic activities, 5th to 8th grade students experiment with light and color; collect and analyze authentic spectral data from rock samples using an ALTA hand-held reflectance spectrometer; map the rock types of the Moon; and develop theories of the Moon's history. M3 classroom loaner kits that include a lunar globe, rock samples, sets of the ALTA reflectance spectrometers, and more are available upon request.

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