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Sites that feature material related to the teaching of black hole physics, such as course syllabuses, ideas for class activities and "teacher's kits".

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• Amazing Space Teaching Tools: Black Holes

  http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/eds/tools/topic/blackholes.php.p=Teaching+tools@,eds,tools,
  Resources for classroom use; from the Space Telescope Science Institute: features an online exploration, a page on myths vs. realities, and materials about astronomers' observations of the galaxy Centaurus A.

• Black Holes

  http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/users/gabor/black_holes/
  Basic ideas of black hole physics, plus some more advanced material about astrophysical and quantum-gravity aspects; based on lectures given as part of a course "Foundations of Physics I" by Gabor Kunstatter at the University of Winnipeg in 2002.

• Black Holes to Blackboards: God Divided by Zero

  http://www.astrosociety.org/publications/black-holes-to-blackboards-god-divided-by-zero/
  Text written by a high school teacher about simple ways to teach the basic concepts of black hole physics.

• Black Holes: Fact and Fiction

  http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/bh_teach/
  Selected talks (slides and audio) from a 1999 Teachers Educational Forum on black holes at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (UCSB); topics: black hole basics, astrophysical aspects, how to build a black hole in your classroom, and the relation with string theory.

• Ted Bunn's Black Hole FAQ

  http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html
  List of questions that explore the basic properties of black holes (such as what happens when you fall in, or how a black hole evaporates).

• Universe Forum: Black Holes

  http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/blackholelanding.htm
  Materials about black holes from the national center for teaching and learning about the structure and evolution of the universe; sponsored by NASA and created by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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