1. - 1 Dr. Lynn Cominsky Director NASA Education and Public Outreach At Sonoma State University

2. - 2 Space Mysteries- NASA LEARNERS project Space Mysteries are 3 inquiry-driven interactive Web explorations, which take advantage of the student's natural curiosity to build critical thinking and analytical skills. http://mystery.sonoma.edu/ NASA E/PO Programs at SSU GLAST-Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an international and multi- agency mission planned for launch in 2006. It will study the cosmos looking at objects that emit high energy wavelengths of light. http://glast.sonoma.edu/

3. - 3 Universe!- NASA Structure and Evolution of the Universe Education Forum support site http://universe.sonoma.edu/ NASA E/PO Programs at SSU XMM-Newton Education and Public Outreach XMM-Newton is a joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) orbiting observatory, designed to take observe high energy X-rays from exotic astronomical objects such as pulsars, black holes and active galaxies. Launched on December 10, 1999, it continues to make observations today. http://xmm.sonoma.edu/

4. - 4  Alien Bandstand –A recording executive looking for his next big hit has turned to the heavens. He has found a peculiar signal in some radio telescope data and he is convinced that it is music from an alien civilization. He is offering it for sale. –Your mission: Determine if this signal really is an alien tune!

5. - 5 Alien Bandstand - concepts  Wavelength – distance between two crests or troughs in a wave in space  Period – time it takes for 1 wave to pass by  Period is also the distance between two crests or troughs in time

6. - 6 Live! From 2-Alpha  Live! From 2-Alpha –A space-faring reporter is stranded on the planet 2- Alpha. He starts noticing strange events in the sky and on the planet. –Your mission: Determine what is happening and what course of action he must take to survive.

7. - 7 Live! From 2-alpha concepts  F = G m 1 m 2  Escape velocity r2r2 Force due to gravity v = 2 G m r

8. - 8 Live! From 2-Alpha  Star Market –Companies are buying stars of various types for unexpectedly high prices –Your mission: Determine what type of stars they are buying and why.

9. - 9 Star Market - Concepts  Mapping in different coordinate systems  Analyzing data to find patterns  Stellar types and spectra  Multi-wavelength data

10. - 10 We will utilize the observations and scientific discoveries of the GLAST mission to improve the understanding and utilization of science and mathematics concepts for grades 9-12. GLAST E/PO Program Goal Central image from Active Galaxies poster

11. - 11  Web site http://glast.sonoma.eduhttp://glast.sonoma.edu –Included on Exploring Extreme Universe vol. 1 &2  Space Mysteries –Two more will be developed with GLAST funding in 2004-2005 GLAST Web Based Materials

12. - 12 GLAST Educator Training California Science Teacher’s Association – Combined Swift and GLAST booth (10/01, 10/02, 10/03) – 750 GLAST EPO flyers distributed in SEU folders (10/01) – 1000 GLAST AGN posters distributed in SEU kits (10/02) – AGN workshop by Plait and Silva (10/03) National Science Teacher’s Association – 2500 GLAST EPO flyers distributed in SEU folders (3/01) – 1500 AGN posters distributed in SEU kits (4/02) – 700 AGN posters in SEU kits at regional NSTA (7/02, 11/02) – TOPS workshop by Plait & EA Taylor (4/03)

13. - 13 GLAST Educator Training National Council of Teachers of Mathematics –1000 GLAST flyers distributed in SEU folders (4/01) –1000 GLAST AGN posters distributed in SEU kits (4/02) –TOPS workshop by Cominsky and EA Ford (4/03) Other venues : –American Association of Physics Teachers Poster at joint AAS/AAPT meeting (1/01) 100 GLAST AGN posters in SEU kits (4/03) AGN and TOPS workshop (4/03) –STANYS – 500 AGN posters in SEU kits (11/02) – 1200 AGN posters in SEU kits distributed by Educator Ambassadors – 900 AGN posters in SEU kits to OSS Broker/Facilitators

14. - 14 GLAST Educator Training  MSFC-sponsored Workshop –Hawaii July 2002 AAVSO Conference, =artially funded by GLAST EPO –Spear presented “Gamma rays and Blazars: more work for variable star observers” –AAVSO is now partner in GLAST Telescope Network –AAVSO members are encouraged to observe selected blazar fields, and to record their results in on-line database.

15. - 15 GLAST Ambassadors Program Educator Ambassadors help us develop, test and disseminate GLAST E/PO materials. Chosen from national competition –Five GLAST (+2 Swift + 3 SEU) Educator Ambassadors trained at SSU during July 2002. –Five more GLAST EAs will be selected in 2004 + up to five funded by other missions (GALEX, LISA) –Next training in Summer 2004 for all EAs http://glast.sonoma.edu/ambassadors

16. - 16 GLAST Educator Training Texas A&M University (Kingsville) –Hispanic Speaking Institution –Will hold a teacher training workshop in 2005 UC Santa Cruz –GLAST Balloon flight with HS teachers –Tesla coil show at many venues –Summer program with HS teachers

17. - 17 GLAST (and Swift) Exhibit Booth HEAD 11/00, 4/02 AAS 1/01, 6/01, 1/02, 6/02, 1/03, 6/03 Gamma 2001 4/01 CSTA 10/01, 10/02 (with Swift) NSTA SE 12/01 (with Swift) AAPT 1/03 (with Swift) AAPT-NCN 4/03 (with Swift)

18. - 18 GLAST Printed Materials  TOPS Learning Systems –3 year subcontract: goal is three modules of lesson activities – First module of lesson activities now in print! – FAR OUT MATH - uses simple slide rules to understand powers and logarithms – Next module: LEAPING LOGARITHMS! –TOPS workshops given at NSTA and NCTM in spring 2003 http://www.topscience.org/

19. - 19 Active Galaxy Educator’s Guide  Now in print! – Extensively field tested – 3 activities that use instructional design template developed with EAs Building Perspectives on Active Galaxies Zooming in on Active Galaxies Light Travel Time and the Size of Active Galaxies – Active Galaxy poster printed 10,000 distributed in SEU kits 5,000 more now printed with activity on back

20. - 20 GLAST Printed Materials  Cosmic Journeys trading card game features GLAST as one of five missions to build – 5000 decks printed  GLAST CDs – have entire E/PO website including video  GLAST cube –Available in Fall 2003

21. - 21 New GLAST Poster  500 printed by Spectrum Astro  Designed by Aurore Simonnet

22. - 22 SLAC Virtual Visitor’s Center Interactive Gamma-ray exhibit will be added to http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/ in 2004 (R4, R6)

23. - 23  Produced by Thomas Lucas  Program outline – Focus on GRBs and Black Holes – 1 – 2 hour program on PBS NOVA – 10:1 cost-sharing by NSF, PBS & others vs. GLAST –NSF proposal submitted for cost sharing, planetarium shows with Denver Museum and educator’s guide – Will include Swift launch footage PBS Television Special

24. - 24 GLAST Telescope Network  Program objects are AGN, Polars, and GRBs  GTN website: http://glast.sonoma.edu/gtn –Is now self-starting –Has finding charts for each target object –Background information about robotic telescopes and active galaxies  SSU is designing archive for images  AAVSO will archive magnitudes from CCD observations See GTN white paper for more information

25. - 25 GLAST Public Relations  Articles for HEAD newsletters  Press release coordination  “Giveaways” at science meetings –Silly putty egg balls –AGN flashlights –Magic cubes – in progress –Cosmic Journeys trading cards and GLAST mission cards  GLAST video  New GLAST public brochure in progress

26. - 26 XMM-Newton E/PO Program  Upgrading and transferring web site from UCSB to SSU, Code 508 compliance, Image Gallery  Classroom poster and activities about X-ray Spectroscopy in conjunction with GLAST  CLEA Laboratory on X-ray Spectroscopy  Development of a Starlab planetarium program about the X-ray sky

27. - 27 Universe! E/PO support  Cosmic Journeys folders/flyers (2001) –10,000 distributed  Seeing and Exploring the Universe kits (2002) –10,000 distributed –Included SEU resource guide, selected by NASA Ed Review for “gold star”  Proposal for support of Beyond Einstein initiative for 2004 and beyond