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B.J. Mendez, N. Craig (UC Berkeley)
The Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) Program for RHESSI at UC Berkeley develops many resources for the formal and informal education communities as well as the general public. We have developed several inquiry-based classroom activities for middle and high school students all aligned with National Science Education Standards. These activities cover the topics of sunspots, solar flares, the solar cycle, and magnetism on the Sun, highlighting the science investigated by RHESSI. In addition, we conduct ongoing professional development workshops for educators throughout the country. These workshops cover science content as well as pedagogy and curriculum materials. For the public and the informal education communities we have developed a series of lithographs about RHESSI discoveries as well as a website containing information about RHESSI science with images and movies from RHESSI data. The E/PO team also partners with the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF) in it’s Sun-Earth Day programs at museums, including “Eclipse 2001”, “Venus Transit”, and the upcoming “Ancient Observatories: Timeless Knowledge.”
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36 #3
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