For those of you in the Twin Cities, I saw a really great demo that they have at the Science Museum of Minnesota. In their weather section, they have a angle...
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Shupla, Christine
shuplac
Feb 1, 2011 4:30 pm
I just love blacklights! Stephanie, some type of marking on the table should work. We did this with elementary children, just to give them a sense of the...
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dloranz40
Feb 1, 2011 4:30 pm
I also definitely run thru the Gina/Ed TPS routine on the very first day of class - along with an example of each of the other activities students will see...
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Peter Newbury
pnewbury14
Feb 1, 2011 6:00 pm
Did someone mention low-tech for this angle of incidence demo. We bought 2 identical thermometers (the kind you hang outside your kitchen window) from the...
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Jessie Antonellis
jcantone@...
Feb 1, 2011 10:02 pm
That's a fine philosophy, if it works for you and, more importantly, your students. Some students need this kind of structure and appreciate deferring to the...
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Doug Duncan
valentinozip...
Feb 1, 2011 10:04 pm
I don't know how to post this because it has pictures. Doug Dr. Douglas Duncan Dept. of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences Univ. of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 ...
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Erin Dokter
edokter@...
Feb 1, 2011 10:06 pm
Similarly to the other faculty who have already posted on this topic, we discuss the WHY of think-pair-share, CAE lecture tutorials, case studies, jigsaws...
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McDaid, Liam
macedonfinance
Feb 1, 2011 10:20 pm
I'm puzzled after reading some of the more defensive comments about many of your teaching situations. Are there many students that question the validity of...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Feb 2, 2011 12:02 am
I'm with you on this one Liam. The challenge faced by astronomy education devotees is "analysis paralysis." There is a real risk that analyzing what we do,...
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Nick Strobel
strobelnick
Feb 2, 2011 4:12 am
Thanks, Doug, that is good way to show it. Let's see if I can attach a small animation. For one of the CAPER lecture-tutorials that deals with look-back time,...
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Michael Wood-Vasey
wmichaelwv
Feb 2, 2011 4:26 pm
Dear Doug, I like the idea, but why are the oldest pictures smaller? If you're talking about cosmological time scales over billions of years, then apparent...
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Karen Lewis
ktlewis_astro
Feb 2, 2011 4:27 pm
Hi, Thanks for sharing this applet. It hits upon a topic that always trips them up in the lecture tutorial. Many students my students thought that the...
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valentinozippysophia
valentinozip...
Feb 2, 2011 4:28 pm
At Colorado we have around 20,000 clickers in use, most used for peer instruction, so we have a good sample to study. I find a strong correlation between...
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waiferx
Feb 2, 2011 4:44 pm
To get my students to wrap their heads around being able to look up in the night sky at a star that may already be "dead," we talk about a scenario where a...
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Vakil David
davidvakil
Feb 2, 2011 4:57 pm
I find it interesting that some science instructors are questioning the value in explaining the science behind a practice that students will see for the next...
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David Wittman
dwittman@...
Feb 2, 2011 6:40 pm
For cosmological distances, the time between events IS stretched. Local supernovae take 3 weeks to reach maximum luminosity, and at z=1 they take six weeks (as...
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Adam Jensen
adamixoye
Feb 2, 2011 6:42 pm
On a completely different note, isn't it interesting (and sometimes sad) how we have to modify our analogies and illustrations to keep up with technology? The...
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French, Rica
ricadink
Feb 2, 2011 7:17 pm
I've also seen it in my students' evaluations. When I used to gloss over the "why" (or skip it completely), it resulted in much more dissatisfaction and quite...
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Melissa N. Hayes-Gehrke
mhayesge@...
Feb 2, 2011 7:18 pm
I would agree. I use TPS, lecture-tutorials, and group work in lecture. Actually, I do not lecture at all in lecture any more, but that's a separate topic. On...
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Sparks, Laura
lsparks@...
Feb 2, 2011 7:18 pm
Adam, With regard to your text/e-mail/facebook analogy, here's one I sometimes mention: if you were trying to play counterstrike or call of duty from the ...
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McDaid, Liam
macedonfinance
Feb 2, 2011 11:08 pm
David, The science you refer to is a meta-issue at best. A long discussion of how The Method works, is itself a waste of time. It either works (and I have my...
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McDaid, Liam
macedonfinance
Feb 2, 2011 11:09 pm
Melissa N. Hayes-Gehrke sez: "On the first day of class, I summarize a section in my syllabus about education research that shows active learning is more...
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Erik Brogt
erik.brogt@...
Feb 3, 2011 12:42 am
Liam et al., General critical thinking and conceptual understanding of astronomy concepts are two different course goals. In astro101, content understanding...
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Nick Strobel
strobelnick
Feb 3, 2011 1:32 am
I will talk about an old way that people used to communicate of making marks on a piece of paper usually called a "letter", folding it up and stuffing inside...
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Jean Chiar
simhani2001
Feb 3, 2011 1:55 am
Dear all: I teach the astronomy laboratory course at a local community college (San Jose City College in CA). For a few of the 3-hr lab sessions, I've been...
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McDaid, Liam
macedonfinance
Feb 3, 2011 5:26 am
Erik, They are two separate goals, but they are not mutually contradictory. It is certainly hard to do both, but it can be done. They can even reinforce if...
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French, Rica
ricadink
Feb 3, 2011 5:27 am
Jean, I am *soooo* in!!! It would be wonderful to have some labs that were tailored towards Celestia and/or Stellarium (I prefer the latter; haven't had good...
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Michael Hamlin
hamlinmi
Feb 3, 2011 5:27 am
Something that bugs me about many analogies or thought exercises about lookback is that they reinforce the idea of Newtonian, absolute, time. What does it mean...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Feb 3, 2011 3:57 pm
First off, I am not at all familiar with Stellarium. I am, though, very familiar with Starry Night Enthusiast (SNE). I use it in my classes **a lot**. I used...
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McCudden, Paul J
pjm_90041
Feb 3, 2011 3:58 pm
I teach at Los Angeles City College, and have developed a series of twelve Stellarium-based homework exercises on various Astronomy 101 subjects that I use...
