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Cool Cosmos

Link: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/

This site pulls together various materials for children and adults on the discovery and application of infrared technology. It includes information about infrared astronomy, multiwavelength astronomy, and the discovery of ultraviolet (UV) light. It features classroom activities, videos, games, links to related sites, and thermal infrared images of people, animals, and places. Some materials available in Spanish. From the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology. Cool Cosmos at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center & the SIRTF Science Center In answering the wide public interest in space sciences, NASA has, for more than a decade, made Education and Public Outreach (EPO) an important element in their missions. This “Cool Cosmos” portal is the main gateway of the “Cool Cosmos” EPO group at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center and the SIRTF Science Center. The “Cool Cosmos” EPO activities are coordinated and managed by the SIRTF Science Center, based at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center on the campus of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Communicating the world of infrared astronomy to the public is the main topic of the “Cool Cosmos” portal but certainly not its only goal. In the past few years the “Cool Cosmos” team has created a wide variety of educational products that explain the infrared as well as the multi-wavelength universe. We've produced a suite of award-winning websites (coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu) that speak to audiences as varied as kindergarteners to amateur astronomers. We've also filmed short videos about astronomy and infrared light and created posters and brochures that have become favorites with NASA education specialists as well as classroom teachers. The “Cool Cosmos” portal is involving students in science with multi-disciplinary educational materials produced with the goal of engaging the young minds of future generations of scientists.

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• Educational Type: Activity
• Educational Type: Best practice
• Educational Type: Community
• Educational Type: Curriculum
• Educational Type: Curriculum support
• Educational Type: Data set
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: facilitate collaboration or resource sharing
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: develop or access curricular content
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: design or deliver instruction
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: teaching science

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