Chris, You could try a "parallax lab". Set up 2 objects one that covers another when looking head on but as you move about the classroom the objects ...
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The Dancing Astrophys...
dancinastrophys
Apr 22, 2012 7:50 pm
Hi Chris I also have my students in my Astro201 - The Solar System course 1) draw the Earth and the Moon (and do PlayDoh scaling) 2) do graphing of Solar...
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Meeks, Denise
dmeeks@...
Apr 22, 2012 8:21 pm
Try this: http://nw.pima.edu/dmeeks/ast102/102lab/parallax.pdf If you want the original Word document so that you can modify it, let me know. Dr. Denise Meeks ...
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Amy Forestell
amyforestell
Apr 22, 2012 9:45 pm
Hi all, I am teaching a new course on Life in the Universe this fall. It will be for students who have taken the 101 course and want something more, but not...
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Meeks, Denise
dmeeks@...
Apr 23, 2012 12:41 am
Yes, ask me and I'll give you the Word docs: http://nw.pima.edu/dmeeks/ast102/102activ/extremophile.pdf http://nw.pima.edu/dmeeks/ast102/102activ/greetings.pdf...
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Steve-o Stonebraker
sstoneb
Apr 23, 2012 1:10 pm
When I was a graduate TA at Boston University, my favorite course to work in was called "Cosmic Evolution", a class that was the pet project of Prof. Tom...
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Deveau, Stacy N
sndeveau
Apr 23, 2012 7:36 pm
Jeff Bennett and Seth Shostak's "Life in the Universe." http://www.amazon.com/Life-Universe-Edition-Jeffrey-Bennett/dp/0321687671 ... From:...
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Tim Slater
astronomer_tim
Apr 23, 2012 7:37 pm
You might already know about this, but another option is, if you want to go with a commercial product, that we've had really good experiences with is using the...
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Wallace, Colin S - (c...
cswallace_pi
Apr 23, 2012 7:40 pm
Dear All, Ed, Doug, and I just completed a series of five papers based on the research from my dissertation on students' learning difficulties with cosmology....
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Deveau, Stacy N
sndeveau
Apr 23, 2012 9:24 pm
Check out the NASA Educator Guide "Life on Earth... and Beyond...?" at: http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/library/downloads/Astrobiology-Educator-Guide-20 07.pdf Stacy...
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McDaid, Liam
macedonfinance
Apr 23, 2012 9:25 pm
This is indeed the best text out there. It even gets the Greenhouse Effect right, which most texts don't. Find out more here:...
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waiferx
Apr 24, 2012 1:57 am
Preview of the links students study for their current events quiz for this coming week: ...
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Kelle Cruz
kelle_lin
Apr 26, 2012 4:52 pm
Hi Colin, Wow, impressive body of work! I see in the abstract of Paper 5: "However, our results also indicate how instructors implement the *Lecture-Tutorials*...
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Wallace, Colin S - (c...
cswallace_pi
Apr 30, 2012 1:51 am
Kelle, Thanks for the compliment – I’m glad you find our body of work to be “impressive.” I have to point out, though, that this work would not have...
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Matt B
matt452...
Apr 30, 2012 1:51 am
I was looking to see what classroom activities I could find. I found a Drake equation activity, but you probably already have one of those, since they're...
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waiferx
Apr 30, 2012 1:07 pm
With the second midterm graded, here are sample student responses (rubrics and grading distributions as well) to a new batch of essay questions. Many of these...
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Wallace, Colin S - (c...
cswallace_pi
Apr 30, 2012 7:21 pm
Two articles I forgot to add to the list are: 1) Rudolph, A. L., Prather, E. E., Brissenden, G., Consiglio, D., and Gonzaga, V. 2010, “A National Study...
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Robet Pendzick
pendzira
Apr 30, 2012 7:58 pm
Matt Although these are not the same exact activity, look these links, www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/...
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Elaine Gibbs
eihpd
Apr 30, 2012 7:58 pm
This Alien Lab activity is an inquiry based lab to introduce students to the priodic table and how its layout came to be. Is that what you want because Im...
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David Wittman
dwittman@...
Apr 30, 2012 8:15 pm
Dear astrolrners, I'm about to teaching radiometric dating for the first time. I had imagined some kind of hands-on activity with M&Ms. Each student could ...
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Meeks, Denise
dmeeks@...
Apr 30, 2012 8:17 pm
You can use this, I wrote it, and if you want the original Word doc, email me at dmeeks@... http://nw.pima.edu/dmeeks/ast101/101activ/radioactivity.pdf ...
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McDaid, Liam
macedonfinance
Apr 30, 2012 8:25 pm
David, The main conceptual problem is getting students past the idea that a sample doesn't decay to ZERO after TWO half-lives. This is the most common...
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Robet Pendzick
pendzira
May 1, 2012 3:56 am
Dave, http://local.ans.org/mi/Teacher_CD/Activities/pennium-halflife-activity.pdf Another fine 'pennium' problem, also used for isotopes.. Robert Pendzick ...
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Matt B
matt452...
May 1, 2012 3:57 am
It's more instructive if you don't do something like flip M&M's or coins, which have a 50% probability. I do it with dice with holes in them, decaying if a...
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Edward Prather
eeprather
May 1, 2012 1:14 pm
Hey Astrolrner community. I typically try to stay out of the conversations that are taking place on the list, but just can't as these topics were the subject...
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Brissenden, Gina L - ...
glbrisse@...
May 1, 2012 1:15 pm
Dear Astrolrner@CAE Community, There is an exciting opportunity for your physics or astronomy teaching assistants or postdocs to attend the upcoming Gordon...
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Paul Zeleski
pzeleski@...
May 1, 2012 1:34 pm
I've attached the requirements, grading sheet, and ppt for a scaled model of the solar system I do. I have my students actually build models, but it could be...
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Meeks, Denise
dmeeks@...
May 1, 2012 3:41 pm
http://nw.pima.edu/dmeeks/ast101/101lab/solscale.pdf Dr. Denise Meeks Science Department Chair Astronomy & Physics Faculty Northwest Campus Pima Community...
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cagarland76
May 1, 2012 6:06 pm
Elaine, Thank you for posting the suggestion about the Neil deGrasse Tyson "We Stopped Dreaming" clip. I asked my Space Science class (for pre-service...
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waiferx
May 2, 2012 3:40 am
Preview of the links students study for their current events quiz for this coming week: ...
