Activities
NIRCam Education and Public Outreach
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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)
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IceBreaker Activity
- What's in a Name? with Cover Page
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Observing the Sky
- Planning a Star Party
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Light
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Film Can Spectrometer with grating material from Science First
- Infrared Video Clips
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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
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Scale Modeling
- Size and Distance
- Space Weight
- Worlds in Comparison
- Comparing Planets
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Telescopes
- "My, What Big Eyes You Have"
- Comparing JWST to Your Eye
- JWST video trailer
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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
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Solar System
- Phases of the Moon and Planets
- Moon Puzzle of famous women scientists
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Stars
- Activities in Nucleosynthesis and Stellar Classification
- Poster Presentation
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Galaxies
- Classifying spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies
- Lookback (galaxy evolution) and Images
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Expansion of the Universe
- Hubble's Law