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NEW AAS PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON WORKNG WITH FUTURE TEACHERS - STIPEND AVAILABLE! Do you know if your ASTRO 101 class includes pre-service teachers? If so, ...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Oct 8, 2008 5:04 pm
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Has anyone seen or developed a planisphere-like concentric-circles dialing device that allows students to match up the lunar phase, time, sun location,...
David, I have a quite pretty paper dialing instrument called a Moontracker sent to me by Peter K Rollings of Peterborough, UK. It relates direction to sun,...
Joann Eisberg
joann.eisberg@...
Oct 10, 2008 1:42 am
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Hi David, There is a "Moon Finder" activity in Paper Plate Astronomy activities kit (which was developed by the Great Lakes Planetarium Association). Video:...
I had not seen the Paper Plate Astronomy activities before, but they look great. With the Moon Finder, I'm thinking about modifying it with a 3rd plate (cut...
Dr. Mary Urquhart from UT-Dallas sent me some templates and teacher instructions for a lunar phase "planisphere" she developed; I'm happy to share the...
... I've been using styrofoam balls in a darkened room with a single light source (our portable planetarium works well) but haven't actually assessed the...
When I taught phases of the Moon, I generally began by providing students with images of the Moon in various phases (including new moon) against a black...
Edna DeVore
edevore@...
Oct 10, 2008 4:58 pm
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Yup, Teacher Nancy Whitman of Creswell Middle School in western Oregon invented an Analog Moon Computer that does exactly what you request. She designed this...
rkang@...
Oct 11, 2008 3:36 am
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Hi Alex, We do have some good preliminary data that kinesthetic modeling may be the way to go. Moon phases are the mother of all tough things for people to ...
Stephanie J Slater
sslaterwyo@...
Oct 11, 2008 3:36 am
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I use the styrofoam balls in the classroom as a warmup, then have the students bring the balls outside and hold them up to the Moon to see the same phase on...
Hi folks! I too do an activity with moon balls vs. the moon outside, with the added geometry of debunking the 'Earth's shadow' misconception. Goes something...
Hi everyone! I teach one of the few, if not, the only online class on Manned Space Flight at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. I have looked high and...
Hi Colleagues! I totally agree re "mother of all tough things". Almost nobody, including the teachers (grades 4-12 that I typically deal with), can readily...
rkang@...
Oct 12, 2008 2:14 am
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I am in the process of developing an inquiry-based course on this topic. And it is clear that there is very little available in this area. There are only two...
Hi I teach college and they don't seem to have too much trouble with the phase concept. But I have an online class where the students lay out the moon phases,...
There is one book: Into the Final Frontier by Bernard McNamara 2001 Harcourt College Publishers ISBN 0-03-032016-X ... From: astrolrner@yahoogroups.com on...
Barembaum, Morrie
barembaum_morrie@...
Oct 12, 2008 6:00 pm
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I take the "ball on a stick" / single light activity a step further. One thing that may lead to a lack of success with this activity is that students do not...
Everyone teaching lunar phases should be aware of the paper by Larry Marshall titled "Bringing the Moon into the Classroom" in The Physics Teacher volume 34,...
Hi All, I require my students observe the moon through at least a cycle, recording phase, date, and angle between sun and moon. These they must record on a...
Joann Eisberg
joann.eisberg@...
Oct 13, 2008 7:55 pm
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I like the comments about asking the students to write down their beliefs, then following it with models and activities to challenge those misconceptions; I...
For those of you that will be at the AAS meeting - I will try present an alternative way to deal with misconceptions about the moon. (Actually the presentation...
Thanks Steve for the reference. I forgot about Larry's article. And it got me thinking of how little of this moon phase discussion is based on research of...
Ed Prather
eprather@...
Oct 13, 2008 10:57 pm
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Would any enterprising person (perhaps our moderator) be willing to put together a short digest of the articles Ed cites? I'd love to check this out myself,...
Joann Eisberg
joann.eisberg@...
Oct 13, 2008 11:03 pm
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In addition to the Lindell research that Ed cited, there are other researchers outside of the AER community who have explored students' understanding of lunar...
Hi All, I have been trying to refine the experience for more effective teaching about lunar phases for a few years. Currently I am using the combination of...
Christine Redman
redmanc@...
Oct 14, 2008 1:18 am
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I found this on CNN today and I was really horrified. So my question for you is, how do YOU plan to deal with the students who will no doubt come to us...
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