Hands-on Astronomy For Education - Proceedings Of The Workshop

Part 1 Overview: Astronomy, culture and education, M.A. Seeds; panel discussion - the role of government and industry in high school astronomy, M. Aizenman; panel discussion - high school astronomy teachers, J. Hickman. Part 2 High School programs: the hands-on universe system, T. Barclay et al; integrated planetarian and classroom activities - summer institutes in astronomy and space sciences, A. Gould; IBM and education, R. Meisel. Part 3 Colleges programs and science with small telescopes: five imaging projects at Harvey Mudd College, M.S. Burns; astronomy in two climates - Gettysburg College student research on campus and at the National Undergraduate Research at Villanova University, L.A. Marshall et al; small telescope astronomy and undergraduate research at Villanova University, G.P. McCook; a CCD-based undergraduate laboratory at the University of Iowa, R.L. Mutel; the UCSB remote access telescope project, P. Lubin. Part 4 Image processing: PCVista - image processing for the IBM PC, R. Treffers; image processing for teaching, R. Greenberg and R.G. Strom; connecting classrooms with telecommunications, T. Barclay.