Dark Skies Rangers
Dark Skies and Energy Education
Activities
- US Education Standards
- Constellation at Your Fingertips
- Demonstrating Light Pollution and Shielding
- Lab Activity Sheet [396 KB PDF]
- Demo Activity Sheet [561 KB PDF]
- Planetarium Box Construction [18.5 MB PDF]
- City Mat Image [201 KB PNG]
- A short demonstration on the importance of shielding outdoor lighting [YouTube video link]
- How Light Pollution Affects the Stars [426 KB PDF]
- Outdoor Lighting Audit
- Teacher Guide [1.4 MB PDF]
- Student Pages [624 KB PDF]
- General Luxmeter Instructions [332 KB PDF]
- General SQML Instruction Sheet [278 KB PDF]
- Photographing Lights and Light Pollution [473 KB PDF]
- Spectra of Lights [600 KB PDF]
- The Night You Hatched [899 KB PDF]
Articles
- A Silent Cry for Dark Skies [1.0 MB PDF]
- Global campaign to save energy and fight light pollution [3.9 MB PDF]
- Our Light or Starlight [1.2 MB JPG]
Dark Skies Rangers Resources
- Program Description [253 KB PDF]
- Certificate [538 KB PDF]
- Poster [11.4 MB PDF]
- Presentation: Dark Skies Rangers and Globe at Night Programs for 2014 [5.9 MB PDF]
Globe at Night Resources
- Presentation: Globe at Night: A Campaign for Preserving our Starry Skies [6.8 MB PDF]
- Presentation: Globe at Night: from Awareness to Action to Analysis [2.3 MB PDF]
- Poster [1.6 MB PDF]
- Postcards
- Our Globe at Night Poster [968 KB JPG]
- Google Earth Information [105 KB PDF]
- Stellarium Information [15 KB PDF]
- Globe at Night Activity Packets
International Dark Sky Association Resources
- Introduction to Outdoor Lighting [7.1 MB PDF]
- Light Pollution Brochures
- Light Pollution and Energy [3.5 MB PDF]
- Light Pollution and Energy (B/W) [2.4 MB PDF]
- Light Pollution and Health [2.9 MB PDF]
- Light Pollution and Health (B/W) [2.4 MB PDF]
- Light Pollution and Safety [2.0 MB PDF]
- Light Pollution and Safety (B/W) [427 KB PDF]
- Light Pollution and Wildlife [1.4 MB PDF]
- Light Pollution and Wildlife (B/W) [371 KB PDF]
- Light Pollution Practical Guides
- Introduction to Light Pollution [347 KB PDF]
- Introduction to Light Pollution (B/W) [242KB PDF]
- Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Wildlife [1.1 MB PDF]
- Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Wildlife (B/W) [367 KB PDF]
- Residential Lighting [1.7 MB PDF]
- Residential Lighting (B/W) [704 KB PDF]
- Wild About Wildlife Workbook (Ages 5-9)
- Lesson Plan [38 KB PDF]
- Wild About Wildlife Presentation [49 MB PPT]
- Wild About Wildlife Workbook [1.4 MB PDF]
- Wildlife Double Take (Memory Game) [5.3 MB PDF]
- Wildlife Shakedown Presentation [16 MB PPT]
- Wildlife Shakedown Study Guide [18 KB PDF]
- Wild about Wildlife Workbook (Ages 6-12)
- Lesson Plan [37 KB PDF]
- Workbook [814 KB PDF]
- Flashcards [61 KB PDF]
- Wildlife Quest (Game) [3.7 MB PDF]
- Wildlife Shakedown Presentation [16 MB PPT]
- Wildlife Presentation [35 MB PPT]