Grades 8-12. This project describes to students the great hurdle in the Hale Telescope’s construction: successfully transporting the 40-ton, 200-inch mirror and its packing materials from upstate New York to the top of Palomar Mountain in southern California. Documents include shipping manifests, conversations regarding the movement of the mirror, and photographic documentation of the mirror’s journey up Palomar Mountain. These sources can be used for inquiry-based learning exercises.
Archival Education
From Dream to Reality: Building the Hale Telescope Primary Source STEAM Workshop
Explore Further
Archival Education
Near East Relief Document Analysis Websites
Grades 4 – 8. The following unit engages students with archival material related to Near East Relief. The unit framework, primary sources, and resources can be integrated into classrooms of grades 4-8. Each lesson has student objectives that can be accomplished within 40 minute periods over the course of several weeks. The final project will be…
Archival Education
HIV/AIDS in the 1980s
Grades 10 – Graduate level/Adult education. This audiovisual media literacy educational resource focuses on video media. Videographic materials often communicate messages visually. Articulating precisely how this is done, through both visual and narrative information, requires critical media literacy skills. Through watching and analyzing these videos, students will explain underlying messages and attitudes within the videos.
Science & Innovation
Building the Hale Telescope
A 20-year-long project, funded by Rockefeller philanthropies, took technologies enabling astronomy to an unprecedented scale.