ASTRO 801
Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

Additional Resources

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There are several resources related to Cosmology that you may find helpful:

  1. The NASA WMAP mission provides a website that they call "Universe 101,(link is external)" which is an excellent set of materials that elaborate more deeply on many of the topics from this lesson in more detail than I was able to do.
  2. As always, you can also refer to www.astronomynotes.com(link is external) for an additional set of reference material.  Their cosmology chapter includes more sections than our lesson.
  3. Penn State Professor Niel Brandt has taught in past summers a week long workshop on Cosmology for science teachers, and he makes available all of his notes and overheads(link is external).
  4. WMAP also has an online activity for classroom use called "Measuring Accuracy.(link is external)"
  5. Another publication with cosmology background and related activities is the "Teacher's Guide to the Universe(link is external)."
  6. At Crash Course Astronomy(link is external), Phil Plait has episodes on Dark Matter, the Big Bang, Dark Energy, A Brief History of the Universe, and Deep Time