NuSTAR Education & Outreach: For Teachers
Active Galaxy Educational Unit
This education unit was developed for the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope E/PO program, but addresses one of NuSTAR's main scientific objectives: the study of galaxies with massive black holes at their cores. All three activities are aligned with the national science and mathematics standards. A beautiful poster illustrating an active galaxy features one of the three activities on the reverse side.
- Active Galaxies Poster
- Active Galaxies Poster without the text
- Download PDF (3.36 Mb) Educator Guide
- Both Covers of Educator Guide (336 Kb) (11 x 17 inches)
- HTML Version of Education Guide
- Presentation: Huge Black Holes: Measuring the Monster in the Middle
Black Holes FAQ Sheet: From Here to Infinity
- Full Color Version. (English version)
- Printable Black and White Version. (English version with white background)
- Full Color Version. (Spanish version)
- Printable Black and White Version (Spanish with white background)
Black Holes Educator Workshop: From Here to Infinity
The SSU group, in collaboration with DMNS, has created an educators' workshop based on the program, complete with an educators' guide with well-tested activities from different Astrophysics division missions to teach the basic concepts outlined in the planetarium program.
Guide Presentations:
Black hole science web sites
The following websites have excellent scientific descriptions of black holes, designed for curious minds of all ages.
For young readers:
- http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/universe_level1/black_holes.html
- http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/black_holes.html
- http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/capture/blackholes/
- http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/cs_space.shtml
For young adults:
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/blackholes.html
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/quasars.html
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/blackholelanding.htm
- http://hubblesite.org/discoveries/black_holes/
For advanced readers:
Black hole science web sites
Black holes are an excellent way to engage your student and increase their curiosity and wonder of the world around them. Here are some sites that have classroom activities which explore the concepts of how black holes behave, and teach basic concepts in science and math. Interactive education matrix for educators interested in teaching about black holes (this includes links below and more).
- http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/blackholes/blackholes.html
- http://einstein.stanford.edu/ (see GP-B Educators Guide link at top of page)
- http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/blackholes/lesson/index.html
- http://glast.sonoma.edu/teachers/teachers.html#agn
- http://swift.sonoma.edu/education/index.html#grb
- http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/education/resources/gravity/index.shtml
- http://cgwp.gravity.psu.edu/outreach/activities/
Cool black hole games for all ages
What better way to treat the endpoints of all matter, space, and time, than with a game? These websites features games - both online and board/card games - that are not only fun to play, but are educational and standards-based.
- http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/blackhole/
- http://mystery.sonoma.edu/live_from_2-alpha/index.html
- http://glast.sonoma.edu/teachers/race.html
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/bh_popup_spacetimelab.htm
- http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/blackhole.html
- http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/blakhole.htm
- http://www.universeforum.org/einstein/resource_BHExplorer.htm
- http://www.universeforum.org/einstein/resource_journeyblackhole.htm
- http://www.universeforum.org/einstein/resources_visual.htm
Great black hole resource pages
There are many more great sites on the web dealing with black holes, how they work, how they affect their neighborhoods, and what scientists hope to learn from them. Listed below are a few of these places where you can learn even more about black holes.
- http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/scifi02.html#black
- http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/bh_pub_faq.html
- http://www.phys.vt.edu/~jhs/faq/blackholes.html
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/faq/black_hole/bhole-main.html
- http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/workx/blackholes/index3.html
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/category/exotic/black%20hole/
Educator Ambassadors
NuSTAR is supporting one Educator Ambassador to help develop, test and disseminate materials that include NuSTAR science.
- Meet the Educator Ambassadors - the people, their biographies, and their missions.
- Upcoming Events - a list of workshops being conducted by the Educator Ambassadors.
