Amazing Space Teaching Tools: Black Holes - http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/eds/tools/topic/blackholes.php.p=Teaching+tools%40%2Ceds%2Ctools%2C
Resources for classroom use; from the Space Telescope Science Institute: features an online exploration, a page on myths vs. realities, and materials about astronomers' observations of the galaxy Centaurus A. |
ASTR 2030-001: Black Holes - http://astronomy.colorado.edu/astr2030/astr2030home.html
Syllabus and course description for a course held at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Spring 2004, covering black hole physics from the basic concepts to astrophysical applications and Hawking radiation. |
Black Holes - http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/users/gabor/black_holes/
Basic ideas of black hole physics, plus some more advanced material about astrophysical and quantum-gravity aspects; based on lectures given as part of a course "Foundations of Physics I" by Gabor Kunstatter at the University of Winnipeg in 2002. |
Black Holes to Blackboards: God Divided by Zero - http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9802/lockwood.html
Text written by a high school teacher about simple ways to teach the basic concepts of black hole physics. |
Black Holes: Fact and Fiction - http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/bh_teach/
Selected talks (slides and audio) from a 1999 Teachers Educational Forum on black holes at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (UCSB); topics: black hole basics, astrophysical aspects, how to build a black hole in your classroom, and the relation with string theory. |
How Stuff Works: How Black Holes Work - http://www.howstuffworks.com/black-hole.htm
What are black holes? Do they really exist? How can we find them? Article by Craig C. Freudenrich. |
Information and Activity Books - http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/blackholes/blackholes.html
From the Teacher's Corner of NASA's "Imagine the Universe!" website; includes posters, presentations and instructions for building a model of a specific kind of black hole. |
Ted Bunn's Black Hole FAQ - http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html
List of questions that explore the basic properties of black holes (such as what happens when you fall in, or how a black hole evaporates). |
Universe Forum: Black Holes - http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/blackholelanding.htm
Materials about black holes from the national center for teaching and learning about the structure and evolution of the universe; sponsored by NASA and created by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. |