Kim and others following this theme If you have not already explored the CLEA Projects developed by Larry Marschall and his team from Gettysburg College, I...
Tom Olien
tom.olien@...
May 1, 2006 3:46 pm
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If you have computers, check out the CLEA labs (http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/physics/clea/CLEAhome.html). Although these are set up for use by...
Tutorials... Don't forget the CLEA activities. Also, there's an interesting possiblity if you are in computer-equipped lab, and can get a cheap CCD camera. It...
The main problem with CLEA stuff, is that they are at a level of abstraction that general ed students often don't get. Liam McDaid Astronomy Coordinator &...
Many of the CLEA tools are great, but my students (gen ed) find the instructions long and unclear. Has anybody written new instructions that they would be...
Joann Eisberg
joann.eisberg@...
May 1, 2006 10:02 pm
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With this I must agree. I have been thru the week of training at Gettysburg. During which I found myself spending hours at some of the tasks. The reason I...
I'd also recommend the National Schools' Observatory in the UK. They are open and enthusiastic about collaboration with schools all over the world. Even if you...
I don't believe that the CLEA concepts are too abstract for general ed students. However, they do require some "scaffolding" so that students understand the...
Hi All, I was contacted today by a student in Iran who is seeking help in preparing for an Astronomy Olympiad in his country. He is seeking test questions and...
I have a practical question to those of us who are implementing the Lecture Tutorials by Adams, Prather, and Slater, and I imagine the discussion will apply to...
Sigh! I won't be at the Hawaii workshop either. I too have found that my students need at least twice as long as Time + Ed's students apparently do. I thought...
... I've had a similar experience, although I will say that something like 1/3 of the class finishes in 15-20 minutes, but after 20 minutes the rest aren't...
Robert A. Knop Jr.
robert.a.knop@...
May 2, 2006 3:09 pm
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Try more hands-on, active learning activities and have students work in small groups. Dr. Denise Meeks Science & Mathematics Department Chair Astronomy &...
Meeks, Denise
dmeeks@...
May 2, 2006 4:14 pm
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... I'm at Vanderbilt -- if you give any credence to USNR rankings, these should be pretty good students. (I don't give much credence to rankings like that,...
Robert A. Knop Jr.
robert.a.knop@...
May 2, 2006 9:03 pm
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... Ed's solution is rather straightforward -- some of the students won't finish. Plan on the 20 minutes and then go on to the other material. He has office...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
May 2, 2006 11:21 pm
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I'm an adjunct teaching Conceptual Physics at a small college as such I am not on the campus for office hours. Saying that I've found that starting an...
In response to the Lecture Tutorial discussion: I¹ve used the lecture tutorials at the University of Kansas (my ³home² institution) as well as an adjunct at...
... Interesting. I plan to use the CLEA labs in my (first time ever teaching) 100% online astronomy class this summer - where the ONLY way the students...
I often just do parts of the lecture tutorials. I let 'em have 10-15 mins. And then we stop with that. I post answers by next week and I make them to work in ...
I also find that my students take longer than the recommended 10-15 minutes to do the tutorials. I ran a feedback survey after the first test, and no one said...
As part of the professional development program, On the Cutting Edge, we have developed some web resources on "Preparing for an Academic Career in the...
The latest (eighth) issue of "Astronomy Education Review," the web-based journal/magazine for everyone involved in astronomy education and outreach, is now...
Dear Colleagues, It seems that this ad has still not made all the rounds. Even though the deadline is passing, we have some flexibility so, if you know anyone...
COSMOS IN THE CLASSROOM" ON TEACHING INTRO ASTRONOMY PLANNED FOR POMONA JULY 2007 A three-day symposium on teaching introductory astronomy to non-science...
I have a native Spanish-speaking student in my summer class (intro. solar system) who, for all practical purposes, is fluent in English. However some of the...
Hi, I would like to do a spectroscopy lab with a group of middle school and high school teachers. I'd like them to observe and compare the spectra of various...
TERC, a not-for-profit educational research and development center in Cambridge, MA, is seeking high school science teachers to participate in the 2006-2007...
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