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Amazing Space: Creating Educational Resources from Current Scientific Research Results from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Amazing Space is a program designed to enhance student mathematics, science, and technology skills using recent data and results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope mission. The resulting online multi-media resources are designed in a 5-week summer workshop that partners teachers with scientists, graphic artists, writers, and multimedia Web developers. An extensive production cycle including specification, project definition, frequent reviews, and several testing periods has proven to generate robust but flexible resources for classroom use.

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  1. Office of Public Outreach, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

    C. A. Christian, B. Eisenhamer, Jonathan Eisenhamer & Terry Teays

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Christian, C.A., Eisenhamer, B., Eisenhamer, J. et al. Amazing Space: Creating Educational Resources from Current Scientific Research Results from the Hubble Space Telescope. Journal of Science Education and Technology 10, 31–38 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016616510095

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