Educators

Through a partnership with GBH, NASA's Universe of Learning, and funding from NASA, we have created three exciting new web-based interactives to support middle school and high school learning in space science, covering the solar system, the life cycle of...

http://projects.wwtambassadors.org/star-life-cycle/ Recommended Grade Level: 6-8 Estimated Time: one to two 50 minute sessions Objective: In this activity, students will explore an accurate online model of our solar system that is based on NASA imagery...

This is a tour developed by Professor Alyssa Goodman at Harvard University. This tour introduces cepheid variable stars and how the relationship between their pulsation periods and their luminosities has helped to estimate cosmic distances. Credits Alyssa...

This visualization demonstrates how planets orbit around stars and how projects like the Kepler mission detect planets around other stars using the transit method. Two high school students developed this interactive page using javascript and WWT API. This...

The WWT Ambassadors and faculty and staff at Bucknell University have developed a hybrid lab involving both hands-on and virtual activities that focuses on the Hubble Law, expansion of the universe, and large scale structure. This lab, designed for non...

The WWT Ambassadors and faculty and staff at Bucknell University have developed a hybrid lab involving both hands-on and virtual activities that focuses on the concept of parallax. This lab, designed for non-science undergraduates in an introductory...

New Horizons - A Pluto tour by Albert L. a 11th grade student from Cambridge, MA New Horizons Mission in WorldWide Telescope Credits A tour by Albert L. a 11th grade student from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA

The WorldWide Telescope team is carrying out several workshops in the fall to both get the word out about how to develop for and use WorldWide Telescope (WWT) and to get feedback about needed features and usability. Workshop specifics vary depending on...

This video is designed to give science teachers and astronomy educators an overview of WWT's 3D model of the solar system and cosmos. We demonstrate how WWT can help students understand and visualize: night and day seasons Moon phases parallax distances...