Resources for the Astronomy Merit Badge

• Boy Scout Handbook
• Astronomy merit badge pamphlet. If you walk into a bookstore with the price of this pamphlet in your hand, you won't be able to walk out with any better resource than this one.
• meritbadge.org has a page of aids and hints for completing the requirements, and a Worksheet we will use during our merit badge clinic.

Rappahannock Astronomy Club	http://raclub.org/
Astronomy magazine	http://www.astronomy.com/
Sky and Telescope magazine	http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
NASA	http://www.nasa.gov/

Some good books to read

• Nightwatch, Terence Dickinson, Firefly Books
• Turn Right at Orion, Mitchell Begelman, Basic Books
• The Stars: A New Way to See Them, H. A. Rey, Houghton Mifflin

• Some games and teaching exercises you can use with any group
• Eye safety and eye damage from sun and laser light