Education

We at the Suzaku Learning Center are working on three projects specifically for high school students and teachers.

• Suzaku News You Can Use - the newsletter designed for educators to highlight interesting aspects of the Suzaku mission and X-ray astronomy. Its purpose is to allow the readers to learn, enjoy, and feel comfortable teaching others about the mission, its objects of study, and its findings.

• The XRS Road Trip - the journey of an instrument from the US to Japan to space.

• Student Competition (Closed)
  How would you use Suzaku? We invited teams of high school students to come up with observing proposals, just like real professional astronomers, and we have the winners!

• "Building the Coolest X-ray Satellite: Astro-E2"
  How do you build a satellite? We produced a 35-min educational video to explain how!

• Lesson Plans
  We have already worked with some local teachers and produced one set of lesson plans. We hope to produce more in the coming years.

• Astro-E2 Educator Workshop (spring 2005 version)
• Astro-E2 Educator Workshop (fall 2005 version)
  • Included video clips (These versions of the presentation use Small and Medium versions of these clips)
    • What Will Astro-E2 Do? (Medium [14.9 MB]) (Description)
    • Spectroscopy (Large [260 MB], Small [2.5 MB]) (Description)
    • XRS Detectors (Large [420 MB], Small [1 MB]) (Description)
    • XRS Principle of Operation (16 KB) (Description)
    • Mirrors and XRS in spacecraft (Large [236 MB], Small [380 KB]) (Description)
    • Working with the Japanese (Large [295 MB], Small [4 MB]) (Description)
    • Launch Video (Medium [12.6 MB]) (Description)

• Black Hole Video Clips
  • Zoom-in to a Black Hole (Large [545 MB], Small [3.7 MB]) (Description)
  • Effects of a Black Hole on X-ray Emission (Large [315 MB], Small [2.6 MB]) (Description)
  • Comparing Spinning and Non-spinning Black Holes (Large [440 MB], Small [4.2 MB]) (Description)

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