US HOU: Work in Progress • Approximately 1000 teachers trained, but waiting for new support to train more. We have everything in place to train such teachers … • Waiting for US NSF to Revive - hopefully can reach 2000 Teachers of High Schools (age 14 - 19 year old students) • Try to find sources of funding -- Examples, WISE and KEPLER missions -- train 115 teachers over next three years for Asteroids and Wise. Next
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US HOU: Work in Progress
• Approximately 1000 teachers trained, but waiting for new support to train more. We have everything in place to train such teachers …
• Waiting for US NSF to Revive - hopefully can reach 2000 Teachers of High Schools (age 14 - 19 year old students)
• Try to find sources of funding -- Examples, WISE and KEPLER missions -- train 115 teachers over next three years for Asteroids and Wise. Next Talk Courtesey of Bryan Menendez
• Other Grants in Progress
A few of the New Grants in Application:
• NSF DR K-12 Evaluation -- what specifically do HOU kids learn by doing HOU?
• Frontiers of Discovery -- after school use of PanSTARRS and other telescope networks
• ITEST -- after school use of telescope networks and data bases with Girl Scouts -- more SQL, real projects,
etc.Thinking World Game Development with Multiple Players!!
• Rotary National/International/INTERCT Program
• Others in progress from this meeting -- E.G., Janpan - China _ US -EU Science Curricular Focal Points and Story
• In 1800 William Herschel discovered “invisible light”
• It’s energy with all the same characteristics as visible light, but is not sensed by the human eye
• The light Herschel discovered was just beyond the red part of the spectrum. So it was named “infrared”
• In 1800 William Herschel discovered “invisible light”
• It’s energy with all the same characteristics as visible light, but is not sensed by the human eye
• The light Herschel discovered was just beyond the red part of the spectrum. So it was named “infrared”
Infrared LightInfrared Light
• “Visible light” is a tiny fraction of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Gamma rays--billions of waves per inch• Radio waves--up to miles-long wavelengths
• “Visible light” is a tiny fraction of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Gamma rays--billions of waves per inch• Radio waves--up to miles-long wavelengths
The Spectrum of LightThe Spectrum of Light
Low Energy Waves
High Energy Waves
The Physics of LightThe Physics of Light
• All objects in the Universe emit light depending on their temperature.
• Cool objects emit primarily long wavelength light
• Hot objects emit primarily short wavelength waves
• All objects in the Universe emit light depending on their temperature.
• Cool objects emit primarily long wavelength light
• Hot objects emit primarily short wavelength waves
Getting the WHOLE pictureGetting the WHOLE picture
An object can look radically different depending on the type of light collected from it:
Since shortly after Herschel discovered infrared light astronomers have been observing astronomical objects
in Infrared Light to get a more complete picture
An object can look radically different depending on the type of light collected from it:
Since shortly after Herschel discovered infrared light astronomers have been observing astronomical objects