Astronomy Activities for Teachers

We have developed a number of activities for Grade 3, Grade 5 and Grade 8-12 teachers to do with their students prior to and after tours of the Observatory or our outreach visits to the classroom. These activities are based on California State Science Standards and most include fun, hands-on activities that stimulates learning and increases retention. We also have created some activities for college-level introductory astronomy classes, which are especially useful for assigning as extra credit. Click on the links in the right hand column to download the necessary files. Answer keys for the college-level assignments are available by emailing us.

If you use these activities with your class, please let us know and return this survey to us so that we can continually improve these activities. Help us by reporting on the survey any typos or errors that you find. Mail or email the survey to: Prof. Tammy Smecker-Hane, tsmecker@uci.edu, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, University of California, Irvine, CA 96697-4575. We greatly appreciate your input.