During our training at Caltech in the summer of 2014, my NITARP students and I learned how to create spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of our target K-giant stars. I wanted to develop a more general lesson plan for my astronomy … Continue reading
During fall semester, 2014, I taught the first half of a year-long astronomy course. This semester focused on constellations, cosmology, galaxies, and stars, whereas winter semester will focus on planetary science and the solar system. Because of my work … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
