Resources, projects and data sets

TLRBSE: Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education
http://www.noao.edu/education/arbse/arpd
Includes 5 projects with canned data sets and explanations to get a PC-based lab up and running. Good examples of research analysis. The program is now un-funded :-/

SOFIA
http://www.sofia.usra.edu/
Intends to fly teachers on board their 747 based IR observatory.

MIT Haystack Observatory: Research Experiences for Teachers
http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/ret/index.html
Summer program for teachers. Stipend!

NITARP (Spitzer)
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/
This program is another for teachers to get involved in small teams to work on archival SST data with their students. Involves fully funded trips to AAS meetings and JPL/NASA facilities in Pasadena.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS:
http://www.sdss.org/
http://www.sdss.org/dr7/
Projects are listed here with HUGE data sets.

Hubble Space Telescope Legacy Archive:
http://hla.stsci.edu/
Hubble Space Telescope data available in its raw and edited form. Get direct access to the FITS files used to make all the beautiful images you see online. Can also get spectra, wide band and narrow band image data.