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Conference presentation topics and additional resources
Talks
- Project based learning on exoplanetary explorations
- Using authentic exoplanet data to promote active learning of physics and mathematics in schools
- Demonstrating Exoplanet Cloud formation and Lighting in the Classroom
- Biosignatures: On Earth and Beyond
- Exoplanet Atmospheres
- Exoplanets and the Definition of Habitability
- Insights into Scientist Teacher Partnerships During the Creation of Exoplanet Science Lessons
- Hands-On Experiments as Physical Analogies for Exoplanet Weather Phenomena
- Webb: Probing the Material that Builds Planets
- Exoplanets in the classroom by using hands-on activities
- Exoplanet Transits: Low-Cost Arduino Kit for Signal Processing in Class
- E.T., you’ve got mail: an Italian school competition to design and transmit messages to exoplanets
Poster Presentations
- Is our solar system representative of the exoplanetary systems discovered? An activity and assessment instrument based on current exoplanet transit data
- Exploring Exoplanets: A Card Game to Introduce Students to Planetary Formation
Images
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Pioneer Plaques
Credit: NASA Ames
License: Public Domain icons
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Arecibo Message
Credit: Arne Nordmann (wikicommons user norro)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported icons
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The planet PDS 70b inside a protoplanetary disk
Credit: ESO/ A. Müller, MPIA
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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Young planets carve out shapes in the disk of material around the star TW Hyrdrae
Credit: S. Andrews (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA); B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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The orbital motion of the exoplanet beta Pictoris b, tracked over four years
Credit: ESO/Lagrange/SPHERE consortium
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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The exoplanet beta Pictoris b
Credit: ESO/A.-M. Lagrange et al.
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
- Is our solar system representative of the exoplanetary systems discovered? An activity and assessment instrument based on current exoplanet transit data
- Exploring Exoplanets: A Card Game to Introduce Students to Planetary Formation
Images
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Pioneer Plaques
Credit: NASA Ames License: Public Domain icons -
Arecibo Message
Credit: Arne Nordmann (wikicommons user norro) License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported icons -
The planet PDS 70b inside a protoplanetary disk
Credit: ESO/ A. Müller, MPIA License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons -
Young planets carve out shapes in the disk of material around the star TW Hyrdrae
Credit: S. Andrews (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA); B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons -
The orbital motion of the exoplanet beta Pictoris b, tracked over four years
Credit: ESO/Lagrange/SPHERE consortium License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons -
The exoplanet beta Pictoris b
Credit: ESO/A.-M. Lagrange et al. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Selected Activities
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 10-12 ,12-14 ,14-16
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 10-12 ,12-14
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19 ,19+
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 8-10 ,10-12 ,12-14
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 12-14 ,14-16
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 12-14 ,14-16
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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