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Far Out
Measurements
Bringing the Planets
Closer
to Home Using Image Processing Techniques
By Tim Slater and Brian Beaudrie
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Image processing software and real science data on
the Web
can help integrate mathematics and astronomy.
L&L Articles
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The Data They Are A-Changin’
Using Real-Time Earth and Space Science Data in the
Classroom
by Tim Slater
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Changes
are integral processes of science and can be measured to produce
information
for a wide variety of investigations. This science article shows
how students
in Grades 5 through 12 can use the World Wide Web to gather real
data
and analyze it to understand and describe the changes that are
of interest
to earth and space scientists.
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this PDF.
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Teaching Astronomy By Internet Jigsawing
by Brian Beaudrie, Tim Slater, Stephanie Stevenson, and David
Caditz
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In
this article, Brian and his coauthors describe how a joint
project with
NASA has led to the development of a method of doing online
projects that
really involves students in science.
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Hunting for Asteroids, Comets, and Novas
by Dennis Erickson
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Have
you ever thought that you might empower your students with the
tools and
techniques that could make them famous (à la Deep
Impact)—and
maybe even save humans from extinction? It’s not as
farfetched as
it sounds. In this month’s science article, Dennis Erickson
shows
how helping science students develop their astronomy skills
could just
lead them to discover the wonders of the night sky.
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Reader; read PDF instructions.
Web
Sites
Note. These Web sites were valid when
this issue
of L&L went to press. We have no control over these
sites, though,
and the Web is very volatile. Please let us know if you find a broken
link,
and we’ll do our best to update it.
Image Resources
NASA
satellites: www.stsci.edu
Planetary
probes: http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mpf/rover.html
Views of the Solar System: http://spaceart.com/solar
NASA
Planetary Photo Journal: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov
NASA
Planetary Data System: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets
Observatorium: http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov
Hubble
Space Telescope: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SolarSystemT.html
Windows
to the Universe: www.windows.umich.edu
Free Image Processing Software
NIH
Image for MAC: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/Default.html
Scion’s
ImagePC: www.scioncorp.com
UTHSCSA Image Tool for Windows: http://macorb.uthscsa.edu/dig/itdesc.html
Activities
20 K–12
space science activities from the NASA CERES Project: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/EdActivities.html
An Example Activity: Investigating the Dynamic Martian Polar Caps: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/polar1.htm
The
Network Montana Project’s science activities: www.math.montana.edu/~nmp
An Example
Activity: Measuring Volcanoes: www.math.montana.edu/~nmp/materials/ess/geosphere/expert/activities/volcanoes/index.html
Further Image Processing Information
Center for Image Processing in Education: http://www.evisual.org/
Acknowledgements
The
work reported in “Far Out Measurements” by Tim Slater and
Brian Beaudrie
(L&L vol. 27 no. 5) was generously supported by the
National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA #NAG5-4576), Montana State University
Burns Telecommunication
Center, Departments of Physics and Mathematics, and various school
districts
around the country. The Project Investigators from Montana State
University
were George Tuthill, Kim Obbink, Dave Thomas, and Tim Slater. Project
lead scientists
were David Caditz, Montana State University and Elizabeth Roettger, De
Paul
University. Teacher-participants and fieldtesting were coordinated by
Education
Director, Stephanie Stevenson, Montana State University; Timothy
Slater; and
George Tuthill.
Teacher
Writing Team Members are as follows. The Grades K–4 team: Pam
Davis, Flathead,
Montana; Anna Flynn, Helena, Montana; Elissa Gerzog, Miami, Florida;
Kelly Pounds,
Wintergarden, Florida; and Randy Sachter, Nederland, Colorado. The
Grades 5–8
team: Timothy Buchanan, Belgrade, Montana; Leni Donlan, San Francisco,
California;
Donna Governor, Pensacola, Florida; Jamie Vowell, Bozeman, Montana;
and David
Spencer, Hardin, Montana. The Grades 9–12 team: Laura DeMarotta,
Maynardville,
Tennessee; Keith Goering, Chanute, Kansas; Bob Hillenbrand, Moffett
Field, California;
Robert Smith, Jacksonville, Florida; and Ray Taggart, Sanford,
Florida. NASA
liaisons were Malcolm Phelps, NASA HQ; Stephanie Stockman, NASA GSFC;
and Cherilynn
Morrow, Space Science Institute. Montana State University project
staff included
Brian Beaudrie, Jodi Bechtle, Kirby Cobb, Robert (J. D.) Fixen, Jen
Greenfield,
Kelle Hill, Kipp Lewis, Ivy Merriot, Christian Stryker, and Jenny
Wickum. Materials
can be found online at http://btc.montana.edu/ceres.
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Dr. Tim Slater (tslater@physics.montana.edu
) is the lead project
science director
for the Montana State University-Bozeman NASA Center for
Educational Resources
(CERES) Project and a research assistant professor of physics.
He can
be reached at 406.994.3560; fax 406.994.4452; NASA CERES
Project, PO Box
170560, Bozeman, MT 59717-0560.
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Brian Beaudrie (brian.beaudrie@nau.edu)
is currently an assistant professor of mathematics at Northern
Arizona
University (Flagstaff). Previously, he was the senior graduate
research
assistant for the NASA CERES Project at Montana State
University-Bozeman.
Contact him at the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, NAU,
Flagstaff,
AZ 86011-5717.
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