Dear Members of the CAE Community, I thought I would pass along the good news that in its current newsletter, the American Astronomical Society has officially...
This is the news that I have been waiting for :-) I know I'll be taking advantage of this new category, and I hope a lot more folks do the same. Huzzah! Paul...
Dear Members of the CAE Community, Kevin Marvel, Executive Officer of the American Astronomical Society, has asked for help from any of us who are attending...
Hello All, Does anyone know where I can get a second hand copy of the Project SPICA astronomy teaching resources? They are out of print and I'm in Sydney...
Hi Jeff, I don't have this myself, but the American Astronomical Society has a page on their website where you can also post a request for materials ...
I am doing monthly programming at our science center for 2009 IYA. They tell me there are themes to each month, but I have not been able to find them. Does...
see attached spreadsheet with the topics/objects _______________________________________________ Dr. Angela Speck Associate Professor Physics & Astronomy ...
Dear Jeff: While you don't say why you need the activities from SPICA, I can mention that, with the very kind permission of the folks at the Center for...
Hi Jim (and everyone else), Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but there are IYA Discovery Guides on the ASP website with new themes every month: ...
For NASA IYA information go to the NASA IYA website. http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov/ Look under the Hot Topics and Go Observe sections -- these list the monthly...
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Dec 19, 2008 9:18 pm
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Yes, these are NASA's themes. The IYA Discovery Guides are based on NASA's monthly themes and featured objects, include a short introductory article, a NASA...
Hi all! Join this group I created using tXtBlaster: Astronomy Educators (sponsored by the Association for Astronomy Education, www.astroed.org) By subscribing...
Dear Members of the CAE Community, For those of you planning to attend the AAS meeting in Long Beach in a couple weeks, I've attached a schedule that has all...
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has two interesting positions available in its education department: 1. Director of Education The ASP is looking...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Dec 23, 2008 9:56 pm
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Earth Science Education faculty (non-tenure) position at the University of Nebraska. See http://employment.unl.edu requisition 081042 or contact Cindy ...
Tim Slater
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Dec 23, 2008 9:56 pm
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Dear Long Beach, CA area K12 Science Educators, I would like share with you an opportunity to meet and mingle with astronomy researchers, and astronomy...
Welcome to 2009 everyone! 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the start of telescopic astronomy. It also marks ten years of the Astrolrner listserve! Huzzah! ...
Hi Paul! Happy New year to you too! I will be working with our local science center, the Discovery Center of the Ozarks, and I will be doing programming once...
Here is the website for Nebraska's IYA activities. http://www.iyanebraska.org My husband is the educational outreach coordinator for NASA Nebraska Space Grant,...
I'd like to show a video to my astronomy class that discusses the exploration of the Solar System. I'd like it to include images from Cassini & Galileo and ...
that must not be difficult considering the fact each of us might have encountered during the course of teaching at least one inspiring and learning-sharing...
Wilson, Ernst
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Jan 3, 2009 7:33 pm
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Go here: http://nw.pima.edu/dmeeks/ast101/index.php#video ________________________________ From: astrolrner@yahoogroups.com [astrolrner@yahoogroups.com] On...
Meeks, Denise
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Jan 3, 2009 8:10 pm
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Hi Denise, What a great resource! Thanks for passing along that page to the rest of us. I was particularly interested in the crossword puzzle section of the...
My students love the puzzles! They work together in groups of 2 or 3 and submit one per group. They can use books, notes, any of their class materials. I...
Meeks, Denise
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Jan 4, 2009 6:20 pm
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Dear Elisha: I don't know of any list of astronomical videos. Such a list would be extremely hard to keep up-to-date, given the constant flow of excellent new...
A new study shows that Peer Instruction (a.k.a. Think-Pair-Share) actually helps students learn, rather than merely having students get the right answer...
At Everett Community College we don't have time and resources to do much but we are planning to put up a website featuring a "constellation of the month" (not...
Thanks for highlighting this for us Dave. In the early years of think-pair-share, Jeff Adams and I reported that one of the big differences between using...
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