Past LIPS

2018  |  2017  |  2016  |  2015

2013  |  2012  |  2011

LIPS 2018

• LIPS 2018 program
• Comments from the 2018 Future of LIPS group discussion
• President Nixon’s never-needed Apollo 11 disaster announcement, referenced by Tom Barry in One More Time with Feeling
• Video of Eddie Goldstein explaining how an astrolabe works
• Amy Truksa’s session A Model for Elementary Teacher Professional Development
• Ronn Kistler’s presentation on vocal warmups and techniques
• Alan Gould’s presentation on program organization options
• Worksheets for Briana Ingermann’s session Survivor Challenge
• Instructor’s Guide for Survivor Challenge

LIPS-style workshop from IPS 2018

Data to Dome: How do we make it live and interactive?

• Worksheets from Data to Dome session

Mini LIPS 2018 Documents

This Mini LIPS took place just before the SEPA-WAC started.

• Comments from Karrie Berglund’s session Targeting Misconceptions
• Instructions on building the comet model Adam Thanz demonstrated
• Additional activities mentioned by Adam Thanz
• Instructions on building the Bays Mountain sun model
• Slides from Jon Elvert’s presentations Say What? and Atomic Hotel

LIPS-style workshop on Learning Styles during SEPA-WAC 2018:

• Ideas generated by the four small groups

LIPS 2017

• Data to Dome workshop comments (link defunct)
• Summary of Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome group discussions

Mini LIPS 2017 Documents

Mini LIPS 2017 took place just before the Pleiades, the US national planetarium conference.

• Documents from April Whitt’s session Paper Stars
• Data to Dome group stories

LIPS 2016

Assorted references

• Place requests for affordable solar viewing glasses through the Museum Alliance
• Online scale model calculator

Mike Francis’s presentation skills workshop

• Second City’s 25 Lessons for Improving Creativity and Collaboration (link defunct)
• Suggested book: Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses ‘No, But’ Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration–Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton
• Workshop Outline
• Astronomers’ Improv: List of Names for workshop exercise 3 on above PDF

Toshi Komatsu’s CosmoQuest presentation

• (link defunct)

2017 Great American Eclipse information and activities

• http://www.Eclipse2017.org
• http://www.GreatAmericanEclipse.com
• https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/content/eclipse-2017
• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html
• John Erickson’s eclipse demonstrator (link defunct)

Instructions and parts list for Dave Bradstreet’s fabric gravity well vortex

• Inquire, Engage, Ask, Illuminate

Jeff Nee’s presentation about NASA’s Museum Alliance

• About the Museum Alliance
• Public compilation of Juno mission resources (for Museum Alliance members)
• Jupiter gravity planetarium show (for Museum Alliance members)

Amy Truksa’s Mapping the Constellations

• Mapping the Constellations

2016 Group Photo

• Low resolution photo
• Contact Karrie for high resolution version

LIPS 2015

• From Alan Gould’s presentation Use NGSS to Design a Planetarium Activity
• From Jeff Nee’s session Self Reflection in the Planetarium
• From Toshi Komatsu:
  • MAVEN SOS show/DigitalSky adaptation and materials
  • NASA Goddard Visualizations for/about MAVEN
  • Other missions & instruments
  • Mentioned in passing: Kepler mini-shows (previewed at LIPS 2014)
• From Kaoru Kimura’s session Translating an English Script into Japanese
• From Susan Button’s session Mythology with a New Twist!

LIPS 2013

• LIPS 2013 Note Summary
• LIPS session Blowing Minds With Big Numbers
• Preschoolers and Astronomy Handout

LIPS 2012

• Summary for LIPS 2012
• How do we know…?
• Karrie Berglund’s presentation Legends From Around The World
• Rob Cockcroft’s presentation Astronomical Misconceptions

LIPS 2011

• Alan Gould’s presentation The Question of Questions
• John Kauffmann’s workshop Sharing the Sky
• LIPS 2011 Notes Summary