A List of some Other Educational Resources in
Astronomy, Geology, and Physics
Useful for K-14 Grade Teachers or Mentors or Parents and perhaps
3-infinity
students
Astronomy, place science, look up, but mainly physics, with
some chemistry
and now maybe some biology! The easiest of all sciences to start
practicing;
all you have to do is look up! It is also the oldest science and
the
only science that started as a religious practice, astrology; and
astronomers
are the second oldest profession.
- Astronomical Society of
the
Pacific home page.
- ASTOSHOP
best source of astronomy education gifts and instructional paraphernalia
- StarLab Portable Planetarium
- Starlab
Planetarium.com not affiliated with Learning Technologies, but
using and expanding the utility of a Starlab planetarium.
- Project Star
Learning
Technologies astronomy education stuff
- Sky Publishing's home page,
monthly
astronomy magazine.
- Astronomy Magazine
home
page, another excellent monthly astronomy magazine.
- National Capital
Astronomers,
explore the universe by starting locally.
- Peter
Lewis-State of the Arts (from Montgomery College) Peter Lewis's website
- NASA tv
Index.
- Comet
chasing current and past.
- NOVAC
members images, exploring the universe by looking a pictures taken
locally by NOVAC members.
- Scientific American, best
general
science monthly magazine for everyone.
- Science News, weekly
science
news magazine.
- The Astronomer,
a UK astronomy magazine online for advanced amateurs.
- AstronomyNOW Online.
- AstronomyLinks.
- Hubble Space Telescope
Science
Institute, public information page.
- USNO, United
States Naval Observatory, time service home page, because time is
important in astronomy so you will know when something happens.
- SlakerAstronomy.org
- Windows to
the Universe by UCAR, National Center for Atmospheric Research.
- Stanford
Solar Center
- Astronomy
Center for AS101 professors.
- CLEA,
Contemporary Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy, Some truly superior
computer
astronomy labs, download able for free, but so good you may want to pay
for
them. You already paid for them in your taxes-NSF supported.
- Nick Strobel astronomy
notes,
very excellent!
- Dan Bruton
excellent home page!
- David Malin mostly color correct astronomical images from the
AAO, Anglo-Australian Observatory.
- Bad Astronomy is
very
good for you!
- GALAXSEE,
a superior point particle dynamics galaxy simulation by the Shodor Research and Educational
Foundation
, as of December 18, 2001 "Shodor" has also become the National Computational
Science
Institute, useful for high school and college.
Tutorial
for GALAXSEE . The development page for Window GALAXSEE.
John Hendrix, a Kennedy High School science teacher for Montgomery
County
Public Schools, who is worked with me one summer on developing lesson
plans
for GALAXSEE, John Hendrix lesson plans.
MVHS, Maryland Virtual High
School
of science and mathematics, MVHS-EdGrid project
and EdGrid
collaboration in general.
- MOND ,
MOdified
Newtonian Dynamics from Stacy McGaugh.
- Stella, High Performance
Systems
Inc. modeling software for science. Used by MVHS, Maryland Virtual High School,
and
others. Census data.
- Constellation
guide,
if you want to see the Greek letters in text that are not in pictures
use
IE, Internet Explorer.
- Binocular
or
naked eye constellation guide, if you want to see the Greek letters
in
text that are not in pictures use IE, Internet Explorer.
- SkyServer, Sloan
Digital
Sky Survey.
- Crashing
galaxies, seems to work fine in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but not
AOL's
Netscape!
- Striking
Flash galaxies from the Hubble Space Science Institute.
- Astronomy Workshop
from
the University of Maryland, specifically Douglas Hamilton, seems to
work
fine in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but not AOL's Netscape!
- John
Buchanan's New Astronomy page.
- Nancy
Grace Roman Astronomy activities.
- Nancy
Grace Roman useful web sites.
- Powers
of ten from FSU, Florida State University, Magnet Lab.
- High
Energy
Solar Spectroscopic Imager sort of an AS101,
Introductory
Astronomy, HESSI web sight written by a successful AS101 student.
A
pdf file spacecraft model make by a Montgomery College Engineering
student
who is now a University of Maryland student is here. You must have a
Adobe Acrobat reader to read it.
- In depth coverage is at HESSI
at
GSFC, Goddard Space Flight Center, in
Maryland,
and HESSI at UCB,
University
of California at Berkeley. HESSI education
outreach
at Berkeley California. Space
weather.
- Space Craft Missions:
- NEAR,
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, mission to 433 Eros, close orbit
February
14, 2000.
- International
Space
Station, Alpha, see where it is now!
- Stardust, just as
it
name say.
- Contour, just a
reminder
this spacecraft flyby of a comet failed, not everything works!
- Deep
Impact, impact mission to Comet 9P/Tempel 1.
- MAP, Microwave
Anisotropy
Probe, first data press release February 11, 2003.
- CMB, Cosmic
Microwave
Background, research at LAMBDA, Legacy Archive for Microwave Background
Data
Analysis, how is that for cool acronyms.
- Gravity Probe B,
in
the works for 43 years may fly by 2003 sometime, General Relativistic
frame
dragging caused by the earths rotation.
- LISA, Laser
Interferometer
Space Antenna
- All NASA
spacecraft
missions.
- Planetary Stuff
- Mike Oates, SOHO
comet
hunter 136 comets when I put in this link. A different way to
find
comets than using your own telescope.
- Sundial Stuff
- Heavenly
Mathematics: Highlights of Cultural Astronomy (GEM1506K) by Helmer
ASLAKSEN
of Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
117543, Singapore. Helmer ASLAKSEN has great information on this
sight
from someone with great intellect and even more interesting perspective.
- Distributive Computing for Astronomy and other Scientific and
Mathematical
purposes. BOINC,
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, which allows you to
support several different distributive computing initiatives. A
brain, even a computer CPU, is a terrible thing to waste. Most
but not all distributive computing projects are beginning to use BOINC.
- SETI@home,
Search for
extraterrestrial
Intelligence at home on your computer. The second oldest
distributive computing projects.
- Climate Prediction modeling in the 21 century.
- Einstein@home find pulsars, neutron stars in LIGO
and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
- Folding@home,
help in calculating protein folding. The third oldest of the
distributive computing projects.
- Predictor@home, help in predict protein structure
from protein sequence.
- GIMPS,
help find the next Mersenne prime, 232,582,657-1 is 44th
Mersenne prime and it has 9,808,358 digits, 225,964,951-1
is
42th Mersenne prime and it has 7,816,230 digits, 224,036,583-1 is the 41th, 213,466,917
-1 is the 39th Mersenne prime found so
far. The oldest of the distributive computing projects is GIMPS.
- Loch Ness
Productions:
Planetarium Web Sites.
- IPS,
International Planetarium Society.
- Planetarian,
Journal of the International Planetarium Society.
- So you want to
build a
planetarium!
- What
a
planetarium show.
- Hayden
Planetarium
and particleview.
- Fun with the Face
now
Trailer Park on Mars by Rupert R. Chappelle, who
works
at Montgomery College and is a friend of mine.
- Fulgurite
(lightning strike sand tube) or air bag debris on Mars pointed out
by Rupert R. Chappelle (look far to the right
in
the image for the small bunny eared thing). Same image at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040202a/MSPan_B1_2x-B009R1.jpg.
- 2002 AA29,
earth's
other moon.
- 3753
Cruithine another strange Near Earth Asteriod/moon.
- Astrobiology
Institute
of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
- The Astrobiology Web.
- Astrolink
763 web pages organized by me in 2000 from Michael Seed's Horizon
6th
edition resources.
- Amateur Radio
Astronomy
- National
Radio
Astronomy Observatory astroweb page. Research oriented most
likely moved or dead link now!
- Weather to go
observing.
- Eclipses
of the Sun and Moon and transits of Mercury and Venus, Fred Espenak
of
the GSFC.
- IDA, International
Dark-Sky
Association.
- MDIDA, Maryland Section of the
International
Dark-Sky Association.
- IESNA, Illuminating
Engineering
Society of North America.
- Nazca Lines
in Peru.
- Near Earth
Asteroid miss on April 13, 2029 of 2004MN4.
- Center for
Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, at the University
of Maryland at College Park
- 3D Hydrodynamics of Star forming Regions
- 3D
Hydro Group at Indiana University Bloomington and Purdue University
Calumet.
- Jimmy
Imamura hydrocode work at the University of Oregon.
- Flash,
ASC/Alliances Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes.
- Matthew Bate,
University of Exeter Star Formation Studies.
- Bo Reipurth's "Star
Formation Newsletter"
- The COordinated
Molecular Probe Line Extinction
Thermal Emission Survey of Star Forming Regions
- Intergovernmental
panel on Climate Change WMO & UNEP.
Physics, the simplest of all the sciences, but for that reason
not
the easiest for anybody!
- Contemporary
Physics
Education Project
- Video
Lectures in College Physics with Calculus Mechanical Universe and
Beyond the Mechanical Universe.
- SI
units derived and explained from NIST as a nice graphic.
- Einstein's
Big Idea: E=mc^2 Nova October 11, 2005.
- Galileo
and Einstein a course at UVa by Michael Fowler.
- Relativity
and Quantum Mechanics, also called Modern Physics, a course at UVa
by Michael Fowler.
- Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor, CBFR, Boron 11
+
a proton = 3 Helium 4, no neutrons lots of energy.
- Helium 3
Wikipedia article.
- Aneutronic
fusion Wikipedia article.
- Model
Rockets the NASA scope.
- How stuff works.
- Insulting Stupid
Movie Physics
- Feynman
QED streaming video lectures.
- A
bit beyond the standard particle theory, suppersymmetry,
suppergravity,
and string theory for people who enjoy partial differential equations
as
a starting point!!!
- Center
for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State
University.
- Theoretical
Physics Fun! same author as the above!
- Relativistic
velocity addition both velocities in a line!
- Relativistic velocity
addition more general case!
- Geometrical Calculus
Research and Development, mainly David Hestenes at Arizona State
University.
- Geometrical Algebra
Research group Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
- Quantum Gravity, physics
and
philosophy.
- Spin Foam in The
University of Western Ontario by Dan Christensen, associate mathematics
professor in mathematical physics. Mathematics takes over physics
was there ever really any difference. Only a small difference of
attitude.
- Lorentz
and CPT Violation from Alan Kostelecky.
- Modeling
Method
High school Physics teaching
- Usenet
Physics
FAQ!
- Foundations
of Physics, a philosophy of physics group at the UMD that includes
other
persons and institutions.
- Physical Review Online Archives,
must be an APS member to see more than the abstract.
- Deriving Dimensions.
- Physics News
- Physics
Web
- MERLOT :
A
National Teaching and Learning Network for Faculty.
- Physics
lessons
by Science Joy Wagon.
- Building Learning with Technology
Using Probeware
and
the Internet, Emily van Zee, Department of
Curriculum
& Instruction in the college of education at the University of
Maryland
at College Park. Even first graders are having success with
motion
detectors and graphing calculators!
- UVA Virtual
Lab.
- Feynman online.
- Brittany Spears
explains
Semiconductor Physics
- MC
Hawking's
gagsta rap obviously profane!
- Physics
Problems
online, thanks to Roman Kezerashvilli of New York City Technical
College.
- Physics applets
- Physics and astronomy syllabi catalog
from AAPT.
- Some Scientific Supply Places
- Vernier
Software,
just a name they have more than software in fact they are the CBL,
Calculator
Based Laboratory, source. If you are interested in science
laboratory
equipment in Biology, Chemistry, or Physics and you don't know about
them
you don't know anything. Go there today, they do not have a peer
in
what they do. In what they do they do better than anybody. They
don't
do everything though, if they did they might have an equal.
- TI calculator programs
and archives.
- Edmund
Industrial Optics they have lots of optics stuff.
- PASCO,
Scientific.
- American 3B Scientific
- VWR,
Scientific
Products, they have the old Sargent-Welch products that are still in
existence-as
well as new stuff.
- Flinn
Scientific Inc..
- Frey,
Scientific
- Ward,
Scientific particularly good for Geology courses!
- Science
Kits
& Boreal Laboratories
- Daedalon,
mostly modern physics.
- LeyboldDidactic
GMBH,
they may be German, but they have English catalogs and web pages, too.
- Fisher
Science Education
- NADA,
Scientific Supply company.
- Creative
Marking
Associates, Fluke and others, electronic instruments, sort of high
end
stuff.
- Tektronix,
higher end electronic instrumentation.
- Ztek Co., Multimedia for
Physics
Education.
- Telescopes, always expensive read a
lot
before ever buying!
- Company
7 in Laurel, MD, Prince Georges County.
- Hands
on Optical, Damascus, MD, northern Montgomery County.
- If you get a GoTo telescope you may
need to know
- MAPUG,
Meade Advanced Products Users Group,
- Lasers
- Coherent,
Inc., Laser Group.
- MWK, Industries, mainly laser
stuff.
- Meredith, Industries,
laser
stuff.
- Information
Unlimited, science equipment hardware search engine.
- Electronic parts
- Electronic Gadgets
- Robot Kits
- One of a Kind special things
- Educational Innovations, neat science
toys for
master
teachers.
- Grand Illusions Toy shop
from UK in GBP, Great Britain Pounds.
- Scientifcs, what use to
be
Edmund Sciences catalog and the ASTROSCAN is a real neat rich field
telescope.
- MSC,
Interactive Physics software, Mechanical engineering CAD/CAM.
- McMaster-Carr, general
supply
company, all kinds of parts.
- Grainger,
general
industrial hardware.
- This to that, gluing
advise
for repairing things.
Geology, a place science, but firstly chemistry attached to
geography
with some physics and biology, too! In someway, geology is the
friendliest
of all sciences, since you can walk over the subject matter bend down
and
pick some up with your hand anytime you want to.
- Environmental Earth stuff
- Earth science stuff
- Earth
Science
World, what its name says it is.
- Earth Guide at UCSD,
'Lost
City' smoker near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- A
Geologist's
Lifetime Field List, "For geologists, life is a field trip."
- Ask-A-Geologist,
one way to seek and find.
- Earth
Science Site of the week
- Mineral Gallery,
they
sell minerals
- ATHENA:
Mineralogy database
- USGS mineral
information
- Rock
Cycle in plate tectonic scheme
- Marine
Geology
& Geophysics
- Ocean Drilling Program
- This
Dynamic Earth: the story of plate tectonics, online edition, from
USGS
- Tectonic
Plate Motion, form Space Geodesy from GSFC
- Oceanic Vents,
NOAA
smoker program
- USGS Earthquake Hazard
program
- Fossil News, an
avocational
journal on paleontology
- Dinosaurs in MD and
DC.
- Aqua water on earth
spacecraft
study.
Computers, you can't do anything today without using one, in some
sense
you are one, too (a massively parallel machine with very simple
processors,
neurons, and probably 100,000 GigaBytes of storage, memory). The
earliest
artificial computer did astronomy and was called an astrolabe; Java (enabled Browser
astrolabe)
WinTEL (Electric astrolabe).
{Of course the universe may be a computer in the mind of God,
what
ever that may mean! I do not mean this in a new age way, what
ever that is. Words are tricky things.}
- Wearable computer list,
get
ready to join the Borg community, but not collective, or become Amish.
Resistance
is not futile, but it may make you irrelevant from an evolutionary
standpoint.
I do not want to be the first person with a cortal implant, but I
also
do not want to be the last either.
- Thad
Starner's
home page now at GaTech.
- Xybernaut, wearable
commercial
computers.
- Kio
and Guy, from MIT, see it.
- Stealth Computing, ubiquitous
small
computers in all kinds of things built by hobbyist, practical genius
without
business plans at the moment.
- Not Pocketable, but briefcase able
- Writing web pages resources
- JavaScript, you
can
use for free to do many neat things.
- TeX a type setting compiler for mathematics and physics and such
nerdy
things
- Some seriously nerdy web sites
Montgomery College Web resources:
- MyMC portal to Montgomery College Resources for Faculty/Staff and
Students
- Distance and asynchronous Learning
- http://webct.montgomerycollege.edu
Courses off of here using distance learning WebCT, but you
must
be a registered student in a course or a teacher of a course to fully
use
this sight. You can look at some things as a guest, but you
cannot
take quizzes, turn in labs, or use internal communications.
- Resources for Montgomery College Staff and Faculty
- Montgomery College Libraries
- 5Ws of the Universe
- InsideMC 5 day a week college useful publication
- Room Occupancy IT data warehouse report.
- Montgomery College Student Forms
- Montgomery College Human Resource Forms
Teacher Workshop Resources
- Astrobiology Magazine
- NASA education
opportunities
and ideas.
- Riverdeep,
try
it and see!
- Rubrics,
from Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
- BLT, Building
Learning
with Technology.
- Say
Say
oh Playmate.
- Family
of
the Sun, a song another variation.
- George Lucas Education foundation.
- Northwest High School,
Prince George's Public Schools
- Astronomy Education Review
Online.
- Maryland Faculty Online.
- Science Central dot com.
- Wildcrafting from Ila
Hatter.
- Bagelhole.org Sustainability
for individuals and communities.
- http://www.otherpower.com/
The cutting edge of low technology.
-
A
Review of the Universe
- Structures, Evolutions, Observations, and Theories from Canada, I
wish I knew who wrote this the site is not clear about this. That
makes me worry! It seems good, though.
Global Climate Change Education
Other Information Resources
- A few good Newspapers and other fairly reliable news sources.
- Washington Post,
my
current home town paper (try to read every day).
- Gazette Net Washington
Metro area local news.
- New York Times,
subscribed
to this when I was a New Yorker (try to scan and read some every day)
You
can subscribe online for free!
- BBC News, because you can
not
always believe everything that you see and hear from American news
sources
and a slightly foreign perspective is very valuable.
- English Aljazeera
they
have proved themselves to be as objective as anyone else, everyone has
a
perspective, and we had better listen to our Arab brethren perspective,
too.
- Wired, a magazine and
lifestyle.
- Space.com best general space
news
I have found so far.
- Mobuzz
watch it once and you will be hooked.
- Some other Newspapers
- Florida Times Union,
I
grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, this is a really poor 'southern'
newspaper,
but it lets me keep up with who was murdered locally (they still cover
local
news sort of). My high school physics teachers, Roy Dickens, was
killed
by a student, not one of his, a couple of years ago. He was an
unbelievably
good teacher. I keep hoping that the newspaper will undergo a
renaissance;
some of the local columnist are worth reading although the better ones
seemed
to have retired.
- Verizon phone numbers.
- Finding
phone
numbers of people at Montgomery College.
- Live Web
Camera
in Montgomery County Maryland, Department of Public Works and
Transportation,
United States of America.
-
Abstract
for 1) AstrServicesonomy and Astrophysics; 2) Space Instrumentation; 3)
Physics
and Geophysics; and 4) astro-ph Preprints.
- Historical
Literature in astronomy and astrophysics.
- ADS home page.
- Every thinking person need access to
something
like this from time to time to lookup things:
- Google, my currently
favorite
search engine.
- Google Maps,
really awesome satellite images, too.
- Google Print,
search some books in print and under copywrite, and more books not in
print, and many no longer copywrited.
- Google Sky, soon to be
even more awsome.
- A
Periodic
table my favorite originally from Maraopia the current link is
URL:
http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C04/C04Links/chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/periodic.html;
- NMR
Periodic table;
- Los
Alamos
Periodic table, you can never have to much information on the
elements;
- UCMP
Glossary,
from the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley CA a
multimedia
glossary of Phylogenetics, Geology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology,
Ecology,
Life History, Zoology, and Botany;
- Every thinking Nerdy person need access to something like this
from
time to time to lookup things:
I, Dr.
Harold
Williams, am still looking for authentic Ethiopian Star
Stories.
If the ancient Greeks told some Ethiopian Star Stories (Cassiopeia,
Cepheus,
Andromeda, Cetus, Perseus, and Pegasus), don't you think the real
Ethiopians
must have some, too.
Some online books worth reading:
A new exceptional resource on lots of things by Thayer Watkins
of San Jose State University Department of Economics, while I found
it when looking for information on Spinors, it has much much
more. It has changed my opinion on Economics, a decesion science
not a dismal science evidently.
Montgomery
College's Planetarium home page.
web page by Dr. Harold Williams, last modified Friday, 12:29PM,
October 10,
2008.