Teaching Resources
UW Hosted Resources
Interactive Star Cluster Color-Magnitude Diagrams
Interactive Galaxy Rotation Curves
Includes interactive plots for NGC 134, NGC 3274, UGC 1281, UGC 3137
Code to produce the plots is included in this Python notebook
Hubble's Law Images and Spectra of Galaxies
Clickable for measuring angular size of galaxies and position of spectral lines.
Stellar Atmospheres with ChromaStar
ChromaStar, by Dr. Ian Short of Saint Mary's University, models the atmospheres of stars--in your browser!
Other Resources
WorldWide Telescope Tour Ideas
We use WorldWide Telescope (WWT) to run both the UW Planetarium and the UW Mobile Planetarium. Additional WWT Education resources are available here: https://wwtambassadors.org/educational-materials
Astronomy and the NGSS State Standards
Outside Resources of Note
Foothill College AstroSims: "The Foothill Astrosims project aims to support astronomy education by:
Updating existing educational simulations from Flash to Javascript, and
Develop new simulations to address topics formerly unsupported by the Astronomy Education community"
They also have a *great* list of other people's astronomy simulations, including NAAP and PHET and many more!
ASP
Andy Fraknoi of Foothill College & the Astronomical Society of the Pacific says "A sampling of astronomy activities on the Web from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific can be found at:
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/activities/handson.html
Colorado University's Physics Education Research
from Dr Douglas Duncan: "the University of Colorado invests millions of dollars in research on science teaching. Stephanie Chasteen of the CU PER group has put together some of our most helpful materials and suggestions. targeted for the start of an academic term. All materials are available to the public on a creative commons license. Please spread the word! These materials are all accessed from our extensive Faculty Resources page, http://www.colorado.edu/sei/fac-resources/