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
ewilson@...
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
dmeeks@...
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
dmeeks@...
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...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Jan 6, 2009 5:55 pm
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Kristine, Well, after reading your message I just thought about creating a website that does feature a different zodiac constellation (since there is one for...
... ACTUALLY in for (most of) that month. This will contradict astrology immediately (since they don't account for precession in the last 2000 yrs) and ... ...
Chris: I have a similar disclaimer - I have no use for astrology. The local newspaper, which runs an astrology column, includes in tiny print that the column...
Chris & Hank, Excellent points. The problem is that astrology is really a religion, which is fine... but then its not a science. If astrologers can live with...
Chris makes some good points here that need to be taken into account whenever you are talking to someone who is really serious about astrology. However, I'd...
This is NOT an ordinary job announcement. It is for a 6 week teaching job that is likely to be one of the most intense and rewarding experiences of your life,...
The discussion about Astrology so far misses the point most important to people, and most effective in debunking astrology: Does it work? If someone pays money...
Good points, all. Here's what I do about astrology: I try to have my astrology lecture the same week as our constellations lab, wherein students learn about...
I browsed the astronomy2009.org to see if there was any actual projects planned in this topic (Young-Universe Creationism, Electric Universe, etc.) and did not...
Dear Dr. Bridgman and Everyone: So far, no one in the IYA Program Committee has been putting an emphasis on debunking pseudo-science, since the year is mostly ...
Hi, everyone- I'm trying to come up with a good analogy for the 'why' of planetary rotation rates, specifically why the Jovians spin so fast, but the...
We had our first IYA event, First Light, this weekend. It garnered over 170 attendees and was considered quite successful, even though we were unable to have...
Well, it just so happens that part of that was in my Ph.D. Thesis. The first thing to appreciate here is that terrestrials and large jovians (Jupiter and...
... That's a great pun. I hope it was intentional. ... Tad Thurston tthurston@... http://www.occc.edu/thurston...
Tad Thurston
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Jan 20, 2009 7:38 pm
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This is my first post, but I have been enjoying the discussion threads. I am now in my second Astro 101 course where I'm implementing the CAE student-centered...
Greetings all, We are looking to hire a post-doctoral associate as part of the Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado in the Department of ...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Feb 3, 2009 11:07 pm
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey III & the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astronomy Education Research Applications are...
For those of you who haven't seen this yet: http://www.mikebrotherton.com/diamonds/ It's a collection of free, scientifically accurate, science fiction. I've...
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