Education

Amazing Space Teaching Tools: Black Holes
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.
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/eds/tools/topic/blackholes.php.p=Teaching+tools%40%2Ceds%2Ctools%2C

ASTR 2030-001: Black Holes
Syllabus and course description for a course held at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Spring 2004, covering black hole physics from the basic concepts to astrophysical applications and Hawking radiation.
http://astronomy.colorado.edu/astr2030/astr2030home.html

Astronomy 130: Black Holes in the Universe
Syllabus and course overview for lectures offered at Penn State University in Spring 2007. Basic black hole physics, plus some more advanced topics such as quantum foam, wormholes, and the role played by black holes in cosmology.
http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/niel/astro130/syll-2007.dat

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.
http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/users/gabor/black_holes/

Black Holes: Fact and Fiction
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.
http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/bh_teach/

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.
http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9802/lockwood.html

How Stuff Works: How Black Holes Work
What are black holes? Do they really exist? How can we find them? Article by Craig C. Freudenrich.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/black-hole.htm

Information and Activity Books
From the Teacher's Corner of NASA's "Imagine the Universe!" website; includes posters, presentations and instructions for building a model of a specific kind of black hole.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/blackholes/blackholes.html

Ted Bunn's Black Hole FAQ
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).
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html

Universe Forum: Black Holes
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.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/blackholelanding.htm