After the Bell: Radio astronomers for a day

by: Deb Hemler, Sue Ann Heatherly, Aimee Govett, and Michele Lomano

In this activity, students take a field trip to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia. This interactive field experience helped make science come alive and helped convey the nature and processes of science through firsthand experience.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 4/1/1999Stock # ss99_022_07_36Volume 022Issue 07

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This article explores the idea of interactive field trips. Students in a fifth grade went to visit to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, and they ... See More

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