CLUB ACTIVITIES

Spaceflight: Kindergarten through Second Grade

How Telescopes Work
A lesson about lenses and mirrors. How many different things in your home use lenses to magnify? Students experiment with a number of standard optical components noting the effect that individual and combinations of optics have on the final image.
Submitted By: Sten Odenwald, Holy Redeemer Elementary/Middle School Astronomy Club
Tips for Holding a Viewing Night
I have one online article that may be of interest to ASAC newsgroup members. It is a general introduction and set of suggestions entitled "Tips for holding a viewing night" at:
http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/education/teachers/viewing/
Submitted By: Rob Hollow, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility
Astronomy Screensaver
It's a multi-facetted application that allows you to keep abreast of status reports, news and announcements of events taking place at ESA Science and the most recent near-real-time images from SOHO. I don't know of a NASA equivalent but many of the projects are joint with NASA. For those interested in Solar observations, there's less chance of missing exciting solar storms (like the one that's been going on for the last few days) because the screensaver updates its images whenever you're online.
Download it here: http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=34651
Submitted By: Mike Cripps, Neatherd High School Astronomy Club