Teaching Resources
The Department of Astronomy has a number of supplies and webpages which are useful for teaching or public outreach.
- Learning Outcomes Assessment Plans (aka Learning Goals)
These are university documents which describe the educational goals and methods of assessment in our program. - Making Class Webpages
This is a guide for faculty who wish to create a course webpage on our site. - Supplies
This is a list of books, videos, posters, and educational aids available in the department for use by the faculty, instructors and TAs. - The Astronomy Workshop
This is an award-winning collection of interactive web-based programs for introductory astronomy as well as more advanced courses. It is written and maintained by Dr. Doug Hamilton and students. - The Mars Room
A Virtual Tour, created by Adam Labelson, of the "Mars in Fact and Fiction" exhibit, which was conceived and orchestrated by Dave Theison. - Introductory Astronomy
Supplementary reading with good explanations of introductory astronomy topics. Includes optional computer graded quizzes. Written by Kristen and Scott Miller. - Astronomy Image Library
Doug Hamilton has collected over 2000 images (jpeg, gif, Power Point) from ASTR100 textbooks into an easily-browsable Astronomy Image Library. [Available only within the UMD community.] - Doug Hamilton's Scramble and Quest programs.
Programs scramble and quest are available to UMD faculty and graduate students to aid in the production of ASTR100 exams.

