"DISCOVERIES IN PLANETARY SCIENCE" CLASSROOM POWERPOINTS The DPS Education Subcommittee announces the inaugural release of "Discoveries in Planetary Science"...
Tim Slater
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Jun 1, 2009 3:03 pm
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Dear CAE Members, If you will be attending the upcoming AAS meeting in Pasadena, I would like to invite you to participate in our K12 Educator Reception, to...
Just a note: to access these files, you need to remove the . from the end of Tim's URL. Thanks, Tim! ... ================================ Alexander L. Rudolph...
Tim, These are nice. Now when will there be ones for stellar astronomy? Or even cosmology? I'm happy to see that NASA is finally starting to put serious...
Hello! I would like to create plots of the temperature-density profiles for the atmospheres of the planets. I can find plenty of graphs of varying quality for...
Just a reminder that there are only a few days left to enter the Sky & Telescope Astronomy Day Award. If you know an organization that hosted special events...
Gary Tomlinson
gtomlins@...
Jun 5, 2009 1:20 pm
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This is for Mars, http://nova.stanford.edu/projects/mgs/tps-public.html Robert Pendzick ... From: Nick Strobel To: astrolrner@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,...
Hello AstroLrners! I am working with a colleague at Missouri State University who teaches Physics Education this summer. I am interested in doing a project...
... Dear Jim, I've been using the following questionnaire in the second or third-to-last week in the semester. Likert scale, 1 = strong disagree, 2 =...
Thanks Patrick! It will be with flashcards. Jim From: waiferx Sent: Mon 6/8/2009 12:08 PM To: astrolrner@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Astrolrner@CAE] Re: TPS...
I'm not sure if any of you have seen this yet, but now Russ Berrie (I believe they make Beanie Babies) has a new line of stuffed animals that are supposedly...
... In my class at Pima Community College this past spring, I used clickers part of the time and cards the other part. Cards were probably used more than the...
Dear all, I'm a physics grad student at San Francisco State University and my thesis work involves how people learn astronomy. As most of you, I'm in constant...
Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone uses concept inventories, such as the Force CI, Light & Spectroscopy CI, the ADT, etc., in their classrooms? If you...
Michelle, The other day there was an interview on National Public Radio about a science education program for at-risk youth in Colorado where they have, if my...
Michelle,  Thank you for sharing your thoughts.  I am impressed. The same factors that influence how well a student well do in an introductory college...
Dear Michelle: You bring up what seems like a simple question but has an extremely complicated set of answers. Many aspects of this are pretty well ...
Tim Slater
timslaterwyo@...
Jun 15, 2009 7:51 pm
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Hi, Danny, Michelle, everyone. Some quick thoughts from the deep South: * Re Danny Martino's question on use of concept inventories: I used Michael Zielik's...
Hi, everyone. I've done a short study in physics education & wanted to see if anyone has tried this in the astronomy education community... Think-Pair-Share...
Hello Everyone, Summer has come, and everyone slows down a bit. Except for those of us teaching classes during the summer, the campuses we work on seem to go...
I've been developing (and using) the Solar System Concept Inventory over the past few semesters. (This past semester the SSCI was tested in 13 courses at 6...
Hi John... I am planning to write up an AER article and submit it after the first of the year on Online Astronomy education and also in teaching inside Second...
Hi all, I am looking for an experienced astronomy education researcher to serve as an evaluator for a NASA ROSES education proposal that I am writing with some...
Dear astrolrners, We have a "Topics in Physics for Nonscientists" course in which the topic changes depending on the instructor. I have decided to try ...
David Wittman
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Jun 20, 2009 12:59 pm
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I suggest the required texbook "Gravity from the ground up" be accompanied by an extraordinary (to my sense anyway) texbook called: Physics for Future...
Wilson, Ernst
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Jun 21, 2009 2:07 am
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Hello All! I'm a high school teacher who teaches astronomy as a year long 50 min period class near Chicago. I have been a member of this group for a few years...
Here are some goals of a broader nature I find very important. Also, I discuss these goals directly with the students! If you have goals be very clear with...
I won't go all edu-speak and Bloom's taxonomy on your learning objectives, instead aiming for something more practical. Here's some thoughts from my...
I would add that each of these should have some lab activity associated with it so that kids would learn how we know what we know and what an observation's...
Dear All, I am toying with the idea of using facebook as a medium to hold online discussions for my introductory astronomy class. My plan is to leave it as a...
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