home education > resources . ... Selected Resource Guides . ... Introductory . ... Articles on Education from Mercury Magazine Hunt down some good ideas and resources in these archived articles from the "Education Newswire" and "Black Holes to Blackboards" departments of our membership magazine, Mercury . ... Selected Resource Guides Gather some great background reading from these annotated astronomical resource guides: . ... Environmental Issues and Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide . ...

Information and Resources . ... Two of the most commonly-used browsing tools are Gopher and World-Wide Web (and its clients, such as NCSA Mosaic or Lynx). ... You can use Gopher to access STEIS by typing the following command (Figure 9.3 shows the results): . ... The World-Wide Web (sometimes referred to as WWW or W3) is a hypertext-oriented way of navigating through the Internet and finding information. ... Figure 9.6 shows the Lynx interface. ... Figure 9.5: - Using Mosaic to Read WWW Home Pages . ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...