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Conference Documents

These are documents provided by Jeff Adkins at various conferences around the country.

I am a NASA Astrophysics Educator Ambassador, a program for promoting NASA
Astrophysics division science.

Conference Presentation Archives

• March 2009, Black Hole presentation for NSTA New Orleans.
• March 2009, Martian Constitution Project for NSTA New Orleans
• March 2009, Scale the Universe for Ontario Public Library.
• March 29-30, 2007 Space Probes in the Classroom and Measuring Exploding Stars and Quasars in the Classroom. Link goes to archives of the presentations and includes all links mentioned in the workshop.
• March 10, 2007. Black Hole Density Handout for CPA Conference.
• April 8, 2006. "Spitzer Space Telescope AGN Project," at NSTA in Anaheim, California.
• April 7, 2006. "Using Astronomical Data in the Classroom" at NSTA in Anaheim, California.
• December 1-2, 2005. "Bringing Space Probes to the Classroom" and "Authentic Astronomy Research" for the Southern NSTA Regional Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the links mentioned in the presentations are in the index at left, except for the Mars Global Surveyor site www.msss.com. To find the TLRBSE and Hands On Universe links, click on "Projects" in the index at left.
• October 27, 2005. "Demo Days"at Deer Valley High School for the SSP Northern California annual conference. Links related to the presentation appear in the index at left.
• July, 2005, Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society: "Using the Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope."
• April, 2005, Deer Valley High School "Infrared Science and the Electromagnetic Spectrum."
• February, 2005, Stockton Astronomical Society "Using the Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope."
• May, 2005 IISEF in Phoenix, Arizona: "Space Probes in the Classroom" presentation handout (Intel Inernational Science and Engineering Fair). Click here to order or download copies of the materials we ran out of at the beginning of the session.
• October, 2004 CSTA :"HOU, Standards, and UC" presentation has the following documents archived: Get the main handout here, the spreadsheet we used to collect data here, the presentation outline here, and click here to open a new window on the SA14 picture we analyzed. Finally, here is a zip archive of the Filemaker database of California Science Standards and the work-in-progress proposal for Introductory Astrophysics.
• September, 2004: Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society Sept. 2004 "Unified Models of Active Galactic Nuclei" references page is archived here.
• August, 2004: AAPT Session on "Parallax in the Classroom": archived here.
• June, 2004: NASA GLAST Ambassadors: See our presentation on WIMPS, archived here.
• NSTA Atlanta 2004 - Check out our instructions for building a Cardboard Planetarium !