``From the Ground Up!": Investigations in Physical Science Using the MicroObservatory Online Telescopes

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Dec 2000

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American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #120.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1606

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Many students have a deep interest in astronomy, but limited opportunities to use telescopes to explore the heavens. The MicroObservatory network of five robotic, online telescopes enables middle- and high-school teachers and their students to investigate the night sky from the convenience of their classrooms. By means of an intuitive web interface, students control the telescopes by specifying the target, exposure time, observation time, filter, and site location. Located at sites around the world, the telescopes have a combined capability of a quarter of a million observations each year. Students in twenty states now access the telescopes to carry out investigations ranging from the distance to the Moon to the expansion of the Universe. In this presentation, we describe the unique features of the network and curriculum, and how they are transforming the way that astronomy and physical science is taught in the pre-college classroom. This project is supported by NSF grant ESI-97-30351 with additional funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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