AU - Outreach — Follette Lab

Fun, Low-Cost Demos for Astronomy Outreach

I’ve developed a number of informal educational activities that will allow children, teens, and adults an immersive educational opportunity to explore and learn about the night sky and the environment.

A flour and cocoa “crater” with morphologically accurate rim and ejecta.

Beginning teen astronomy campers “backsolving” their teammates’ mystery surface.

Bug light (left) and regular incandescent (right) spectra taken with diffraction film over the lens of a standard digital SLR camera.

A pickle being fried by passing a current through it. Note that you see only yellow light from the pickle, which is emitted by sodium.

Play Dough Planets – a solar system scale model representing the relative size of the planets.

Waves of flame! A Ruben’s Tube makes for a very cool waves and sound demo. Two speakers at either end of a tube filled with propane create sound waves in the tube.

Fun, Low-Cost Demos for Astronomy Outreach

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