Session 101. Astronomy Education

Oral, Friday, January 14, 2000, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency V

101.01 Self-Directed Professional Development for Middle-School Astronomy Teachers

J.R. Percy, N. Chandra, M. Kalchman, E. Woodruff (U. Toronto)

101.02 Scopes for Schools: A Low-Cost Model for Bringing Hands-On Astronomy to the K-12 Classroom

K. G. Stassun (Univ. Wisconsin), J. Lattis (UW Madison Space Place)

101.03 Automating a 0.9 m Telescope for Astronomy Education

E. A. Albin, D. A. Dundee (Fernbank Science Center)

101.04 GalCrash: N-body Simulations on the Student Desktop

C. Mihos (CWRU), D. Caley, G. Bothun (U Oregon)

101.05 Real Data Driven JAVA Applets for Astronomy Education

G.D. Bothun (University of Oregon), C.D. Impey (University of Arizona)

101.06 Teaching Astronomy Online

J.M. Stanford, M. Dittmann (Georgia Perimeter College)

101.07 Astronomy for Mile-Hi Girl Scouts

C. A. Morrow (Space Science Institute), L. Fuller (Girl Scouts -- Mile Hi Council)

101.08 Everything You Wanted to Know about Evaluating Your Astronomy Education Project But Were Afraid to Ask

T.F. Slater, C. Skala (Montana State Univ.), K.J. Meech (Univ. of Hawaii Inst. for Astronomy), J.P. Adams (Montana State Univ.)

101.09 Accuracy of Press Reports in Astronomy

B. E. Schaefer (Yale), K. Hurley (U. C. Berkeley), R. J. Nemiroff (Mich. Tech. U.), D. Branch (U. Oklahoma), S. Perlmutter (U. C. Berkeley), M. W. Schaefer (Yale), G. J. Consolmagno (Vatican Obs.), H. McSween (U. Tennessee), R. Strom (U. Arizona)