University of Washington
Astronomy Department

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Introductory Astronomy Clearinghouse
ACTIVITIES

See also: Lecture and Classroom Resources

The Sky

1. Cosmic Easter Egg Hunt Uses Lick photos.

Solar System

1. Relative Weights on Solar System Worlds
2. Solar System Walk Uses Burke-Gilman Trail. Time: about 20 minutes.
3. Edible Comets! How can you not like this?
4. Characterizing a Comet's Nucleus (adapted from one written by Dennis Schatz, PSC)

Stars

1. Kirchoff's Laws a fun and effective activity using tennis balls to represent photons.
2. A Web-Based Astronomical Treasure Hunt where students research stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, and answer questions and write about what they find.

Stellar Evolution

1. Flowchart of Stellar Evolution Interactive stellar evolution "quiz".

Galaxies

Cosmology

1. Expanding Universe of Students Requires student interaction, takes about 5 minutes.

Miscellaneous

1. Build an Alien Requires pencil and paper, dice. Time: about 1 hour.