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Our Teacher Resources include:

Lesson Plans

Hera - Let your students analyze data

Posters and Information/Activity Booklets:

Life Cycle of Stars The Anatomy of Black Holes Gamma-Ray Bursts Hidden Lives of Galaxies What is Your Cosmic Connection to the Elements?

Other Educational Materials:

Got Calcium? lithograph WMAP Inflatable Universe Teaching Ball ASD Podcast - Blueshift Space Forensics: Death of a Star* (10.5 MB) A star has exploded! Learn how scientists collect and analyze the evidence from a cosmic crime scene and solve the mysteries of a supernova. This presentation includes background, activities, and a narrative exploration of scientific problem-solving. Also see the Additional Resources (pdf file). Beyond Einstein * (5.5 MB) This presentation uses the following videos: Gravitational Waves from Orbiting Black Holes (Description) Effects of a Black Hole on X-ray Emission (Description) Measuring the Temperature of an X-ray (Description) Inquiring into Dark Energy* (3.7 MB) (NSTA Presentation, Baltimore, Fall 2006) This presentation uses the following videos: Expanding Universe (1.5 MB) (Description) Robert Kirshner on Dark Energy, Part 1 (13 MB) (Description) Robert Kirshner on Dark Energy, Part 2 (18 MB) (Description) The video clips of Robert Kirshner are excerpted with permission from the DVD Beyond the Solar System: Expanding the Universe in the Classroom, produced for NASA by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. © Smithsonian Institution, http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/btss/ * PowerPoint presentations were created on a Mac. Some editing may need to be done when used on a PC.

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	NASA education initiatives and opportunities
	Other Education Resources for Imagine the Universe! topics
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