Can anyone suggest ideas for college level lab activities related to the upcoming lunar eclipse? I'd like my students to observe it with a little more depth...
There is a [lab] that tries to recreate Christopher Columbus's calculation of longitude. It seems that Columbus did this on his original voyage but was...
Amy, for something quantitative, how about the Danjon scale? Lots of info online, start with http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/Danjon.html Rick in...
rkang@...
Feb 3, 2008 6:29 pm
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I have an exercise where people draw the shadow of the Earth and estimate the relative sizes of the Earth and the Moon. They also estimate the brightness on...
... I take this to mean activities not necessarily limited to telescopic viewing. I haven't tried this but it would be interesting to see if it works. Suspend...
Dave Bruning
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Feb 4, 2008 9:54 pm
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Hi, Amy. If you're looking for something a little more basic, I have attached a lab we use at Southern Miss. Ours is a survey course for non-majors with...
PLEASE POST (and participate!) Can You See the Stars? Join thousands of other students, families and citizen-scientists hunting for stars during February 25...
Pre-Workshop Questions for Our Upcoming CAE Tier II Workshop Pick two days (topics) from your class you want to change. Then, answer the following questions,...
What a great way of getting IYA started!!! i hope we are going to do things like this for the next year or so...I will have my students participate for sure...
eprather@...
Feb 21, 2008 1:30 am
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This is a great activity idea. Last night, I designed a lab around it. I'd like to know if anyone teaching anywhere (LA? Manhattan?) actually gets a sky as...
If you are going to have your students participate. They would need to have their lat and long accurate to several decimal places, soo this web site will get...
eprather@...
Feb 22, 2008 5:07 pm
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Please spread the word: There is a new astronomy/physics full-time teaching position at American River College in Sacramento, CA. It closes 3/19. Application...
Here is the site specifically for this position: https://jobs.losrios.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1203746531041 Regards, SL ... ...
Please excuse cross-postings A new issue of the Universe in the Classroom is now available. http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/74/74.html A...
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During the Fall semester of 2007, I taught one section of introductory astronomy and two sections of introductory physics. I received low evaluation scores in...
... in ... Jeff, Are these evaluations part of a standard form from your institution? I would not be worried about "training" students to understand and use...
Hi Jeff, You stroke a good point here. I will ask first how many students you have in your classes, so that may also weight in the possible feedback options...
Hi Jeff, These are great questions you are asking, and I don't really have the answers, but as I read what you were writing it seemed to me that there might be...
Hi Jeff, Boy, I know one thing for certain. You are not the only member of our CAE community asking themselves this question. I really look forward to...
... Greetings, Activities done in class may be feedback for those students who are bold and raise their hands, or speak out, but not for the shy ones who look...
Hi Jeff, ... I think it depends on the type of feedback you give them and the structure of the activities you mentioned. Do you go over commonly made mistakes...
Erik Brogt
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Mar 5, 2008 9:12 pm
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Jeff, As others have said, excellent comments and questions! There are two components that I will address: 1) Do the students realize they are receiving...
Jeff et al: To instructors, the important feedback concerns students' understanding. But students have a host of other concerns: "Different teachers expect...
Joann Eisberg
joann.eisberg@...
Mar 6, 2008 7:53 pm
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... As an initial comment, I suspect your teaching evaluation form is ill-posed. Students answer that they got little feedback. But the question should first...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Mar 6, 2008 7:54 pm
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Dave Bruning sez: "As a different but similar issue is the red pen effect. I had my computational physics students do a project proposal as the first stage of...
... What I'd like to know is how to express-build that kind of trust with a class in, let's say, three weeks, because you generally need to have everything...
Dear Paul, Good question. As we all know, building trust can be especially tough in the science classroom when students walk into class having prior...
Building trust is no harder (and no easier) in the classroom than it is in the rest of life, and you do it in just about the same way. You ARE the subject...
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