(EER's homepage, Astronomer's Education Notebook)

Elizabeth Roettger's Homepage

Quick links to activity pages: Blue Sky, Color Astronomy, World Sizes, and Toilet Paper Solar System and Geologic Time Scale, adaptation of Image Works.
Links to: DePaul, NASA/DePaul,

General notes:

I'm a planetary scientist (Solar System astronomy; an odd combination of astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology/atmospheres, and occasionally biology and paleontology) working primarily in science education. I am particularly interested in the effect of general education courses on teacher preparation.

One of my interests in science education is using our resources well -- particularly our time. I started a prototype Astronomer's Education Notebook to be an overview, a group memory, and a place to find the sort of information that's usually communicated only through the oral tradition. (This is becoming obsolete, but I'll keep it for now.) I've also started to put some hands-on activities online.

Other interests vary on a timescale shorter than the update frequency of this site.

I've compiled some hints on planning an html site, now that I've done two (mine and Adler's prototype). It's out of date as far as technology is concerned, but the issues in designing a site to suit users may still apply.

Site Guide:

I am or have been involved in:

• The NASA Office of Space Science's Broker/Facilitator Program at DePaul University
• The CERes Project (Bozeman, Montana) to develop and teach for-credit distance learning courses in astronomy education (Masters of Science in Science Education Program, through the National Teachers Enhancement Network). The course is called Comparative Planetology.
• The Astronomy Education Committee of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT); also sharing ideas (well, mostly absorbing them) with physics teachers in the Illinois State Physics Project (ISPP).

• The Yohkoh Public Outreach Project (YPOP)(Bozeman).
• Project ASTRO Adler-Chicago,
• The advisory board for the Education Officer of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) and assisting with workshops for teachers and astronomers.
• doing miscellaneous activities as they turn up and interest me. Funny how hobbies, crafts, and cooking so often end up as science activities!

• My Astronomer's Education Notebook, a collection of notes for astronomers getting involved in education.
• Humor (the term is, of course, relative), such as my study of the albedo of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences.

• Links to kith and kin.
• Links to other places I like.
• Links to astronomical and related organizations (actually part of the AEN)
• Hobbies: some mehndi (henna) designs.

I hope you enjoy the offerings. Feedback (via e-mail) is usually appreciated.

Created 24 March 1997, last revision 21 February 2001; copyright © 1997 by Elizabeth E. Roettger.
URL: http://www.nthelp.com/eer/default.html