Activities

The activities in the Clearinghouse are organized into subjects, which are listed in the site navigation menu (the "hamburger button"). Some activities fit into sequences in some of our classes. These sequences are:

SDSS SkyServer and Voyages Activities

With a focus on stars and galaxies, all of these activities rely on selecting objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Database (SDSS), and often on instructions on the SDSS educational site, Voyages.

1. My Special Place (in the SDSS Database)

2. Star Color

3. Stellar Spectra

4. Redshift

5. Distances to Galaxies

Planetary Science Activities

1. Moons of the Giant Planets

2. Reflectance Spectroscopy

3. Gravity Problems

4. Geological Mapping

5. Crater Counting on Mars

6. Plate Tectonics on Mars

7. Atmospheric Escape

8. Classifying Meteorites

9. Exoplanets: The Radial Velocity Method

10. Exoplanets: The Transit Method

11. Scale Model of the Solar System

Notes For Adding New Activities

• 1. Each activity has its own page. Create that page under one of the existing categories.

  2. After creating the page, add a link and succinct description to it from the category page.