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
- TWAN, The
World At Night
- 365 Days of Astronomy
- Astronomers
Without Borders, we all share the same sky!
- StarLab Portable Planetarium
- Starlab
Planetarium.com not affiliated with Learning Technologies, but
using and expanding the utility of a Starlab planetarium.
- Project
STAR Science Teaching through Astronomical Roots
- Sky Publishing's home page,
monthly
astronomy magazine.
- Astronomy Magazine
home
page, another excellent monthly astronomy magazine.
- 400 years of the telescope
- National Capital
Astronomers,
explore the universe by starting locally.
- The Astronoical Society
of Greenbelt, explore the universe by starting locally, they have
the darkest sky site in the Washington DC Metro Area, Northway
Observatory.
- http://www.giraffenant.com
- 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!
- 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, MVHS,
Maryland Virtual High
School
of science and mathematics,
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 nolonger here as AOL is becoming
Absent OnLine. I will try and find out where John has moved them
too.
- 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.
- Universtiy of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Planetarium
and
Observatory.
- Space Craft Missions:
- STERO
the sun from two spacecrafts
- 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.
- What is star dust and how do you
analyzize it from Larry Nittler
and DTM/CIW.
- 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.
- Asteroid Watch
from JPL.
- 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.
- GSFC Scientific
Colloquiums, old ones with videos!
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.
- Pedagogical
articles
Gravity at PSU
- 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
- Science
Adventure
Club
New Wiki webpages!
- 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
- The Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Montgomery College Human Resource Forms
- Media Equipment Request Form
- Films of Demand at MC
- Scientific American Online
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. English
Aljazeera
Live!
- 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
used
to
be
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;
guess what this newspaper has undergone a renaissance. I traveled
to Jacksonville (May 29 through June 6, 2009) to visit my parents and
in-laws and have read this paper. It is really good now.
The Times Union is now the best newspaper that any newpaper of a city
this size can be. If I lived in Jacksonville, I would subscribe
now. It is worth reading. Yeah, Jacksonville!
- 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.
- WolframAlpha
- 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:
- The Edge
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.
Missing
Link? "Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel
in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology" Jens L. Franzen1,2,
Philip
D.
Gingerich3, Jörg Habersetzer1,
Jørn H. Hurum4*, Wighart von Koenigswald5,
B. Holly Smith6
1 Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany, 2
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 3 Museum of
Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 4 Natural
History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 5 Steinmann-Institut
für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Universität
Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 6 Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
Montgomery
College's
Planetarium
home
page.
web page by Dr. Harold Williams, last modified Monday, 12:15P.M.,
February 14,
2011.