Astrolearner Group The Physical Science Department at Harold Washington College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, is seeking a tenure-track faculty member...
hgabelnick@...
Mar 3, 2006 4:29 pm
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Hello. Recently there was a lot of discussion about accessible astronomy materials for blind or low vision students. Here's an opportunity to have some...
I chose the text I use because of its webite! The web site that goes with a text is becoming increasingly important as the sites get better. In my experience a...
Hi all, I wasn't going to give my two cents on textbooks (My favorite is Shu, but *sigh*), but since Doug brought up masteringastronomy.com, I'll enter the ...
P.E. Robinson
probinson@...
Mar 6, 2006 9:57 pm
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Star Probe 2.0 allows students to do simulated astrophysical research by modeling a variety of stellar objects. It allows students to learn stellar processes...
Hi! Sorry to fill your mailbox with even more email, but I wanted to be sure that you knew about AstroEd_News. AstroEd_News is a similar email disitribution...
You might try contacting Frank Granshaw at Artemis Science and ask him about a software update ( artemis@...). He might have a workaround if an...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Mar 8, 2006 5:52 pm
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Each summer the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME offers two two-week, 4-graduate credit, residential astronomy-related programs for teachers....
Repeat of earlier message, please note change in closing date: Astrolearner Group The Physical Science Department at Harold Washington College, one of the City...
hgabelnick@...
Mar 8, 2006 7:42 pm
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I contacted Frank Granshaw yesterday with a few questions after being made aware of Star Probe by this list. His response below answers the question of an...
Colleagues: AFTER the need to teach a solid, basic intro astron lecture and lab class is met, what other aspect of introductory level astron has you really...
CRMallory@...
Mar 9, 2006 9:22 pm
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That's easy! We already have two basic courses: Planets and the Solar System Stars and Galaxies The next two I would offer if I could convince the dean we'd...
Joann Eisberg
joann.eisberg@...
Mar 9, 2006 10:18 pm
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U of A Astronomy has a pretty high enrollment by the non-science major population with our "Astrobiology", "Cosmology" and "Stars" courses. These are taken by...
Ed Prather
eprather@...
Mar 9, 2006 10:18 pm
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I teach Astrobiology now, and it is very popular. The students have an eye opening experience when you actually analyze the evidence (what little there is)...
Thanx Bob and Dave for following up on this. I'm also going to email Frank Grenshaw to tell him how valuable Star Probe 2.0 is for my and other students who...
I am working on establishing an Astronomy Seminar, AST2933, which will allow us the ability to teach different topics. That gives us the flexibility - as a...
Hello My class is covering planet formation. My students are having a hard time grasping the concepts of accretion and differentiation. I'm at a loss of...
Hi My students are having trouble with the concept of the lithosphere. I've explained to them it is the outer layer of the Earth, made up of the crust and ...
... While I perceive the consensus to be astrobiology, and that course has a lot of merits in terms of news value and philosophical issues, not to mention the...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Mar 9, 2006 11:58 pm
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Hi Tina, I think you may be discovering what decades of research has taught us about how humans learn: It is not what we--the instructors--do that matters; it...
Arny had differentiation nailed: - Think Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (Breyer's, not the green stuff) melting. Liam McDaid Astronomy Coordinator & Professor...
In ice fishing, if the ice is too thick, you can't to the fish. There is a morbid analogy with tyring to break out of a frozen pond from below, but it's a...
I usually show how thin plates or lithosphere will wrinkle up by pushing sheet protectors into one another and seeing how they (or small piles of paper) will...
Greetings. Most of our students choose from either the "intro to the Solar System? course, or the "Stars and Galaxies" course. However, we also offer a "Life...
Dr Mike Inglis
inglism@...
Mar 10, 2006 5:50 pm
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Think water balloon compared to an egg. The egg has tought shell and is nearly filled, heat and it usually hard boils instead of erupting. Fill a balloon and...
About teaching: We just went to the two-semester intro sequence someone mentioned-- everything out to the Milky Way in the first semester, and the Milky Way...
Astronaut Don Petit did 3 video clips when he was on the ISS showing accretion in a big zip lock bag. He used coffee grounds, styrofoam bits and pepper in...
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