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News and Articles on Resources for Teaching Astronomy and Space Science Astronomy Education Web Resources Astronomy URLs Online Articles Feb 25, 2004. Building Your Own Planetarium, by Jeff Adkins. As part of our ongoing efforts to build a small classroom planetarium at our school, we have opted not to go with a package deal from a single vendor and instead assemble components from different vendors. Along the way we've discovered some interesting gear that might be of interest to some other developers of immersive projection systems for flight simulators, gamers, photographers, and others, so I thought we'd share the current state of our project as a sort of preview, and I'll follow up later this year with a report on the actual installation when it is up and running. http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/04/0225.html Articles in Magazines Black Holes to Blackboards articles from the Mercury magazine (ASP)http://www.aspsky.org/education/black.html Fraknoi, Andrew, Astronomy Education in the United States http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/useduc.html Books Resources for Exploring the Solar System (Andrew Fraknoi--ASP) http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/solarsys.html Books for Ages 4-8 Coats, Laura Jane. Marcella and the moon 32 pp, color illus. New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1986. Hopkinson, Deborah, and Deborah Lanino, Maria's Comet, 32 pages, Athenium Books, New York, 1999 LaFontaine, Bruce, Exploring the Solar System, 48 pp, Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 1998 Krupp, Edwin C. and Robin Rector, The Big Dipper and You, 48 pp, Mulberry Books, NY, 1999 Herbert, Aled, The Ultimate Moon Landing Sticker Book, 12 pp, DK Publishing, NY 1999 Graham, Ian, The Best Book of the Moon, 45 pp, Kingfisher, NY, 1999 Books for Ages 9-12 Ride, Sally, and Tam O'Shaughnessy, The Mystery of Mars, 48 pp, Crown Publishing, NY, 1999 Couper, Heather, and Nigel Henbest, Black Holes, 45 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1996 Couper, Heather, and Nigel Henbest, Big Bang: The Story of the Universe, 45 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1996 Couper, Heather, and Nigel Henbest, Is Anybody Out There?, 45 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1996 Furniss, Tim, Spinning Through Space Series, [The Earth; The Moon; The Solar System; The Sun], Raintree Steck-Faughn Publishers, Austin TX, 2001. Lippencott, Kristen, Eyewitness Science: Astronomy, 64 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1999 Ford, Harry, The Young Astronomer, 37 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1998 Redfern, Martin, The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Space, 96 pp, Kingfisher Books, NY, 1998 Fradin, Dennis Brindell, The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds, 160 pp, Margaret K. McElderry Books, NY, 1997 Fradin, Dennis Brindell, Is There Life on Mars?, 144 pp, Margaret K. McElderry Books, NY, 1999 Books for Teens and Older Dickenson, Terence, Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners, 72 pp, Firefly Books, Bufallo, NY, 1997 Burnham, Robert, Night Sky: An Explore your World Handbook, 192 pp, Discovery Books, NY, 1999. Mitton, Simon and Jacqueline, The Young Oxford Book of Astronomy, 160 pp, Oxford University Press, NY, 1998 Spence, Pam, The Universe Revealed, 45 pp, Cambridge University Press, NY, 1998 Stott, Carole, New Astronomer, 144 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1999 Couper, Heather, and Nigel Henbest, Space Encyclopedia, 304 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1999 Moche, Dinah L., Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide, 4th Edition, 347 pp, John Wiley and Sons, NY, 1999 National Astronomy Education Projects: A Catalog (ASP) http://www.aspsky.org/education/naep.html Periodicals ASP Teachers Newsletter--Universe in the Classroom (online) http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/tnl.html Websites [ASP] A Selected List of Web Sites for Instructors of Introductory Astronomy Courses http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/educsites.html -- by Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & ASP) Resource Guide: Books, Articles, and Websites on the Astronomy of Many Cultures from Around the World, by Andrew Fraknoi (Astronomical Society of the Pacific and Foothill College) - annotated listing of over 90 books, articles, and websites that deal with the astronomy of diverse cultures around the world. The readings cover the astronomical work and ideas of South and Central America, Hawaii and Polynesia, Africa, India, and Islamic countries. Also included are the astronomical ideas of the Native Americans of North America, issues relating to people of color in the U.S., plus a small set of readings about Asian and ancient European cultures.

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