Scale models help students understand relative sizes and distances of solar system objects.
Designed for teachers at all levels of expertise, librarians, curriculum specialists and youth group leaders, this two-day program includes such topics as black holes, constellations and how to make comets in the classroom. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific is the world's largest astronomical society. JPL is a meeting sponsor, along with the Griffith Observatory, Meade Instruments Corp., Mount Wilson Observatory, the Planetary Society and The Teaching Company. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.