An NSF-Funded Teacher Enhancement Program developing master teachers in astronomy content, pedagogy and leadership, and offering a firsthand experience to extend the process of scientific research to the classroom.

TLRBSE Staff Teacher Leaders Kitt Peak Experience Kitt Peak National Observatory Homepage Satellite Image - KPNO Milestones of Kitt Peak Virtual Tour of Kitt Peak Instrumentation Trip-Tik to Kitt Peak Area Flora & Fauna Sac Peak Experience Sac Peak NSO Homepage Satellite Image - Sacramento Peak NSO Milestones at Sac Peak Telescope Tour Trip-Tik to Sac Peak Area Flora & Fauna Solar Astronomy Lecture Series Why Observe the Sun? The Many Colors of the Sun Space Weather Spectral Analysis Classroom Activities Hydrogen Balmer Lines Dendrochronology & the Solar Cycle Lessons in Solar Physics Sac Peak Activities Building the Solar Telescopes Exploring the Observatory The Flare Patrol Investigating Solar Features New Mexico Skies Visit The Optical Bench Sac Peak Tour VLA Tour White Sands National Park Nearby Observatories Solar Structures Solar Images Multimedia Resources Related Web Links		TLRBSE seeks to retain and renew middle and high school teachers of science by integrating the best practices of Research Based Science Education with the process of mentoring. Participants are provided training in astronomy content, pedagogy and leadership skills. In the appealing context of astronomy, the TLRBSE program develops master teachers in research based science education and prepares them as leaders to mentor learning colleagues in this exemplary method. Members of TLRBSE will take the skills they have learned and the materials and programs developed for them by the dedicated staff at NOAO to their designated second tier teachers in an effort to increase the awareness and use of inquiry based science education in the classrooms of their colleagues. It is hoped that this webpage will be useful to those teachers who have taken part in TLRBSE 2002 as a means of remembering their summer experiences, both in Tucson and their respective mountaintop observing runs. It is also hoped that these pages will be a source of information, reference materials and web-based materials that you and your learning colleagues will be able to use through the course of this and other school years. May you have a truly stellar experience.   Click the image above to view and download the 22x16 inch poster sized jpg version of the picture. Solar Group at Kitt Peak.
Image Processing Help Pages
Blazing Sunspots and Solar Structures Loading Macros and Importing FITS Files NIH/Scion Image Tool Bar How to Read Coordinates How to Measure Areas and Distances on the Solar Surface How to Make and Animate a Stack		Researching Active Solar Longitudes Running the Magnetogram Movie Using SlowView (PC users only) Loading the Macros Running the Macros Registration for Active Solar Longitude   Search for Novae in M31 Loading the Macros Making and Animating a Stack Location & Magnitude of a Nova Fine Tuning the Images Nova Light Curves in Excel AGN Spectroscopy Navigating to the RBSE Disk Opening a File Identifying Spectral Lines AGN Calculations in Excel AGN Classification Key   Stellar Spectroscopy Navigating to the RBSE Disk Opening a File Determining Temperature Identifying Spectral Lines Spectral Classification Worksheet
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