John: Description of opportunities for student research for robotic and remotely operated telescopes

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Description of opportunities for student research for robotic and remotely operated telescopes

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Opportunities for student activities include projects for beginning students such as
following the Moon at night in one hemisphere from a daytime class on the other
side of Earth, projects to use thoughtful analysis such measuring the mass of
Jupiter from the motions of its satellites, and projects that challenge our perceptions
of space and time such as determining distances across our Milky Way and to
nearby galaxies from the properties of stars. We are developing a scaffold to enable
students and their teachers to progress from carefully structured exercises to a more
open individual research projects. The structure allows students to find a level at
which they can work and learn, and it can be adapted to a college preparation
curriculum in middle and high schools, science fair research, elementary university
classes, and advanced preparation for research by physics and astronomy majors.

We outline possible projects that would be components of the scaffold in this document:

<center>[http://sharedskies.org/documents/shared_skies_student_projects.pdf Opportunities for Student Research with Robotic Telescopes ]</center>

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John: Description of opportunities for student research for robotic and remotely operated telescopes