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Monthly Archives: December 2015
BYU-RET Final Weeks
Upon completion of my trip to Caltech with my NITARP students, I resumed my studies at Brigham Young University for the remaining two weeks of my Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program. Before the Caltech trip, as documented previously, … Continue reading
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Tagged aavso, american association of variable star observers, astroimagej, astrophysics, be star, Brigham Young University, cmd, color magnitude diagram, flux density, high mass x-ray binary, hmxb, hydrogen alpha index, research experiences for teachers, sed, spectral energy distribution, v831 cas, variable stars, wise data
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NITARP Days 5-6: What We’ve Learned
For our final day at Caltech for the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) we drew conclusions from our research and evaluated how much we’ve learned from the process. Our main goal, besides learning how to use the IPAC … Continue reading
NITARP Day 4: Digging Into Data
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 my students and I continued our NITARP (NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program) experience at Caltech. Today we dug deeply into the K-giant data and converted the magnitude data at various wavelengths for our target stars … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy data, astrophysics data, caltech, color-color diagrams, color-magnitude diagrams, excel spreadsheet, flux density, infrared processing and analysis center, k-giant stars, nitarp, signal to noise, spectral energy distribution, using authentic data in classrooms, wise data
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The Spaced-Out Classroom 