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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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NITARP Day 3: Return to JPL, Wien’s Law, and Griffith Observatory
On Wednesday, July 30, 2014, our second day at the NITARP workshop at Caltech, we accomplished three major things. First, we traveled to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a tour. Second, we began to wrap our brains around the calculations … Continue reading
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Tagged caltech, curiosity rover, flux density, griffith observatory, in-situ instruments lab, insight probe, jet propulsion laboratory, k-giant star, nitarp, sed, smap probe, soil moisture active passive probe, spacecraft assembly building, spectral energy distribution, von karman auditorium, voyager probe, wise data
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NITARP Workshop at Caltech: Days 1-2
I haven’t written a post for this blog for a long time, and much has happened. Over the next two months I hope to write at least three posts per week and bring everything up to date. It’s been quite … Continue reading
The NITARP Workshop
Today is Jan. 5, 2014. It’s been a fairly steep learning curve as I’ve attended the opening workshop for NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program. As mentioned in yesterday’s post, NITARP provides opportunities for science teachers and their students … Continue reading
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Tagged 2mass, aas, american astronomical society, astronomy data, authentic science data, bright rimmed clouds, caltech, data archive, excess infrared, exoplanet, infrared, ipac, lithium, magfest, mentor teacher, nasa astrophysics division, NASA science mission directorate, nitarp, paul hertz, planet-eating stars, spitzer, stellar rotation, wise
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The Spaced-Out Classroom 