Suzanne Jacoby, for NOAO Educational Outreach
By splicing together two E/PO supplements with some NOAO dollars, we have been able to add a Web Designer to the NOAO EO staff. Mark Newhouse is working to bring a consistent look and feel to the Outreach web pages, and we encourage you to take a look at these newly available materials:
An on-line Virtual Tour of Kitt Peak National Observatory is now available at http://www.noao.edu/outreach/kptour/. The bulk of the work for the tour was done by Rick Donahue, a middle school technology teacher from Eastchester, NY and an RBSE 1998 participant, who spent a month with the Educational Outreach group over the summer of 1999 funded by a Teacher Supplement to our Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
The "Jewels of the Night," an educational module for measuring the color and brightness of stars in the Jewelbox Cluster, was added to the NOAO Educational Outreach web pages. This activity was developed by NOAO astronomer Caty Pilachowski, in collaboration with Jeff Lockwood and other Tucson teachers. The activity has been extensively tested over the past two years, in Tucson schools and at the Flagstaff AASTRA summer workshops. Teacher notes and classroom materials can be downloaded and printed from http://www.noao.edu/education/jewels/ ; a color printer is required.
"A Resource List about the Sun"—a printed brochure listing books, periodicals, and URLs about the Sun—was produced by the Educational Outreach Office as part of our effort to more efficiently handle information requests. This is the first in what will be a series of thematic resource lists. We encourage you to download and print the PDF version of the brochure for local distribution. Go to http://www.noao.edu/outreach/resource/sun.html .