Summary:
The Worldwide Telescope is BEAUTIFUL piece of software that will grab
the attention of your students. It combines the images of the world's
most powerful telescopes together into a virtual space observatory.
Within
the software you can download existing audio visual tours of the Universe
or you can author your own. Powerful stuff!
Tips & Tricks
- What are the 10 most beautiful sites in the Universe? Create
a tour of these.
- Assign phenomenon & have the students present tours eg Supernova,
Extra Solar Planets, Nebulae, galaxy types, most distant objects,
throw it open to things they'd like to explore.
- Write a 'space tourist' readers' theatre script and incorporate
the WWT into the performance.
- Download the World
Wide Telescope
