Introductory Articles

• Project Notes
• Welcome Letter
• Project Staff and Acknowledgements
• "Seeing the Big Picture"
• Taking an Electronic Field Trip
• Opening Activities (en español)
• How to use this Guide
• Meet Some of the Team
• Program 1: Science in the Stratosphere
  • 1A The Electromagnetic Spectrum (en español)
  • 1B Exploring The Spectrum (en español)
    
  • 1C Absorption and Reflection
  • 1D Heat Sensitive Paper
  • 1E "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
  • 1F Sky Glow
  • 1G Addresses in the Sky
  • 1H The Milky Way & Horizon Mask
  • More of the KAO Team
• Program 2: The Pre-Flight Briefing
  • 2A Welcome aboard the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (en español)
  • 2A.1 Welcome Aboard Activity (en español)
  • 2B Inside the KAO (en español)
  • 2C The KAO Telescope
  • 2D Measuring Elevation
  • 2E Planning the Jupiter Mission/Activity--Student Page
  • 2F Planning the Night Flight to the Stars/Activity --Student Page
  • Mission Glossary
• Program 3: The Jupiter Mission
  • 3A Digitized Data (en español)
  • 3A.1 Digitized Data Poster Activity
    
  • 3B Finding Jupiter's Moons (en español)
    
  • 3B.1 Finding Jupiter's Moons Poster Activity
    
  • 3C The Energy Equation (en español)
    
  • 3C.1 The Energy Equation Poster Activity
    
• Program 4: Night to the Stars
  • 4A Mapping a Birth Cloud
  • 4B Seeing the Invisible (en español)
  • 4C Whispers from the Ring
  • 4D The Case of the Disappearing Rings
  • 4E Mapping a Galaxy
• Program 5: Return to the Stratosphere
  • Activity 1: Astronomer's Logs
  • Activity 2: Reflecting on "Starstuff"
  • Activity 3: Space Poetry
• The Past and Future of Airborne Astronomy
• 1995-1996, A Year to Explore Space and Cyberspace
• Multimedia Resources
• Going On-line
• Concept, Themes and Interdisciplinary Connections
  
• Communication Technologies Serving Education
  

This Teacher's Guide was Compiled, Edited and/or Written by Geoffrey Haines-Stiles and Erna Akuginow With Contributions by Margaret Riel, Marc Siegel and the Passport to Knowledge Materials Development Team Astronomical Activities written by Carolyn Sumners Design/Cover Design and Layout: Carol Richman Teacher Reviewers Pat Haddon and Linda Morris Production Assistant Katherine Gibson Poster Design Brian Sullivan Field Journals, Q&A and other materials excerpted from FOSTER 0NLINE.Online HTML Version Mark Wang and Susan Lee

Cosmic Landscape

Michael Rowan-Robinson, published In Our Universe: an Armchair Guide. reprinted by permission of the author

Once it was the navigators crossing the oceans to find
new continents and new creatures, the globe opening up
before their eyes, and at the same time the unknown areas
white on the map shrinking.

Now it is the astronomers' telescopes penetrating the void
to find new worlds, voyages of discoveries made with giant
metal eyes, seeing light we cannot see.

No more the San Gabriel, the Santa Maria, the Victoria
the Beagle or the Challenger. But Mount Palomar, Kitt Peak,
Green Bank, Mauna Kea, Medicina, Effelberg, Coonabarabrand.

Our voyages are made on a photon's back. Before us lies
the cosmic landscape, and our goal is nothing less than
the origin of life, earth, sun, stars, galaxies, universe.

© 1995 Geoff Haines-Stiles Productions, Inc.

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