With support from an STScI Public Outreach grant, I worked with Don York, Julia Brazas, Christie Thomas, Steven Lane and others to help create a web site for Chicago Public School students that helps them understand the formation of the elements in the periodic table, and how they came to be. We designed and laid out the site and discussed the various animations and simulations, which were then brilliantly rendered by Steven. You can see the end result here:

http://www.chicagowebdocent.org/modules/interactives/misc/originsoftheelements.swf

Any comments/suggestions are of course appreciated.

Under the auspices of a three year NASA E/PO grant, we are creating a series of web lessons to educate middle school students in gamma-ray and X-ray astronomy. We also had a workshop to share the required knowledge with Chicago Public school teachers, who then helped to design and write the lessons, which are then rendered on the web so that students can begin to use them. As part of this, I gave a lecture on X-ray astronomy to Chicago School teachers, which ended up lasting the better part of 4 hours.

About once a month, I give a public lecture in the Adler Planetarium Science Visualization lab, as part of the Astro Conversations series organized jointly between University of chicago and Adler. The SVL consists of a tiled wall, a geo wall, and various other cool computer set-ups that allow for a thrilling and interactive visual display. This is a good way to reach out to the general public on topics of current astronomical interest.