NASA Education and Public Outreach Group
Astronomy outreach group
NASA's Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) group at Sonoma State University, founded in 1999, is a provider of educational materials for students, educators, scientists, and the public. Funded by NASA and the United States Department of Education, employees work together to create educational guides, fact sheets, worksheets, posters, games, and informational websites. Most of these educational materials are related to the four major missions that support the group: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR.
In addition to those four NASA missions, E/PO is also working an CanSat project for secondary school students and an online college cosmology course equivalent to a second year undergraduate astronomy course.
Fermi
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is an international and multi-agency mission that was launched in 2008. The main Fermi E/PO website is: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/. Resources provided by SSU's NASA E/PO are:
TOPS Educational Guides: "Far Out Math," "Scale the Universe," and "Pi in the Sky" are a series of TOPS Learning Systems activity books which introduce students to the science and technology of Fermi while at the same time teaching them basic mathematics and astronomy concepts.
Visit:
"Far Out Math" at https://web.archive.org/web/20120827112514/http://www.topscience.org/books/farout_math43.html
"Scale the Universe" at https://web.archive.org/web/20120827112701/http://www.topscience.org/books/scale_universe44.html
"Pi in the Sky" at http://topscience.org/books/pi_sky45.html
Active Galaxies Educational Unit: This is an educator's guide that includes a series of activities and a beautiful poster.
Visit: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/agn.php
GTN: The Global Telescope Network is a consortium of small ground-based visible-light telescopes being used by amateur astronomers and high-school and college students to support gamma-ray observations with Fermi.
Visit: http://gtn.sonoma.edu/
Fermi Race Game: Who will be the first to build, launch, and make observations with Fermi?
Visit: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/race.php
Active Galaxy Pop-up Book: This short, innovative book for ages 8–12 has three separate activities, including a popup 3D galaxy showing its features, and the "Tasty Active Galaxy."
Visit: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/popup.php
Black Hole Fact Sheet: Q&A about the top eight things everyone wants to
know about black holes.
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