Activities
NIRCam Education and Public Outreach

Fun and Inspiration
  • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
  • "Math Doesn't Suck" by actress Danica McKellar
  • Brave New Girls Music
  • Think Big (short video)
  • Think Different (short video)
  • Grocery Store Wars (video)

    IceBreaker Activity
  • What's in a Name? with Cover Page

    Observing the Sky
  • Planning a Star Party

    Light
  • Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Film Can Spectrometer with grating material from Science First
  • Infrared Video Clips

    Lookback Time
  • Fantastic Trip (fun video clip)
  • Fun Powers of Ten Trip (fun video clip)
  • Lookback every day
  • Lookback every day (Lite version)
  • CNN headline puzzle

    Scale Modeling
  • Size and Distance
  • Space Weight
  • Worlds in Comparison
  • Comparing Planets

    Telescopes
  • "My, What Big Eyes You Have"
  • Comparing JWST to Your Eye
  • JWST video trailer

    Engineering
  • "Making Your Own Astronomical Camera"
  • Dissecting a Disposable Camera (RIT Center for Imaging Science)
  • Comparing JWST/NIRCam and a Kodak Camera
  • The Mirror Shaping Challenge for JWST's paper model

    Solar System
  • Phases of the Moon and Planets
  • Moon Puzzle of famous women scientists

    Stars
  • Activities in Nucleosynthesis and Stellar Classification
  • Poster Presentation

    Galaxies
  • Classifying spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies
  • Lookback (galaxy evolution) and Images

    Expansion of the Universe
  • Hubble's Law