The interactive environment offers strategic integration of video, audio, traditional print media, and still photography throughout the programs. The Lab contains directions for conducting practical, hands-on activities away from the computer. These activities are designed to teach, illustrate, and reinforce concepts related to the students' investigations. A professional astronomer presents each lecture with an audio recording accompanied by illustrative graphics and images. Seminar segments depict realistic discussions about competing hypotheses among groups of scientists and researchers.
Students can go to the Cafeteria to listen while astronomers talk informally.
The astronomers talk about their specific research projects, why they chose astronomy as a career, what being an astronomer is like, and what it means to be engaged in scientific inquiry. The multicultural group represented in the cafeteria helps students feel like part of the group. All rights reserved.