Contact Information:
Alan is :
- Director of Holt Planetarium
- Director of Planetarium Activities for Students Success (PASS)
--alias Participatory Oriented Planetariums for Schools (POPS)
- Author in the Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) project as well as coordinator of the GEMS Commercial Kit effort which is making all materials for teaching GEMS activities available in kits through Sargent Welch.
- Co-director of Hands-on Universe (HOU) project that enables teachers and students to request their own images of celestial objects via the Internet. Images are available from our online library and from the international network of HOU telescopes. Students analyze the images with HOU image processing software. Students at all ability levels investigate the universe as they learn concepts from science, mathematics, and technology.
- Director of Global Systems Science (GSS) -- high school curriculum, which has volumes (student books and teacher guides) downloadable from the GSS website. In this project, we're trying out a new concept called JOHDI--Joint Online and Hardcopy Design Interface--which will make documents that are BOTH easy to read online AND in paper print.
Alan Gould has worked at LHS since 1974, starting out as a part-time planetarium show presenter at the Holt Planetarium, which is known for its innovative audience-participation planetarium shows. Since then, his responsibilities have increased to include
- teaching school workshops and courses
- teacher education workshops
- curriculum development
He has authored and co-authored a number of works including
Alan also plays the french horn tolerably.
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