Yes, you do make a difference. This past Saturday, the Walker County Fair kicked off with a parade through Huntsville, Texas. Amongst the paraders was a former...
Hi Everyone, I'm looking for some hands-on astronomy-related classroom activities suitable for Astro 101 students, I use a "Ellipse Drawing" activity where...
Dear Astrolrner@CAE Community, There is an exciting opportunity for your physics or astronomy teaching assistants or postdocs to attend the upcoming Gordon...
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 ...
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...
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....
Dear Members of the Greater CAE Community, I just wanted to let you know that there is still time to register for our Center for Astronomy Education (CAE)...
Hello All, The College of DuPage (located in Glen Ellyn, IL about 25 miles west of downtown Chicago) has an opening for a full-time tenure track faculty member...
What strategies exist to help students bridge the gap between word problems and the solutions to them? I am speaking here of the classic word problem which...
Learn about comets and the Rosetta mission while playing "Comet Quest." Itıs like the real Rosetta mission, but with you in control of the spacecraft. You can...
Preview of the links students study for their current events quiz for this coming week: http://www.space.com/15160-alien-planet-kepler-mission-2016.html ...
Hi all. I've been thinking a bit about my teaching this semester, specifically about my reliance on powerpoint slides for my class. After watching some of...
Greetings -- I'm submitting a proposal next month to the National Science Foundation's Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) program. The program...
More stars. Less light. Last Chance to Participate in GLOBE at Night! Calling Everyone Everywhere! Here is your last chance in 2012 to take a few minutes to...
Dear Fellow College Astronomy Instructor: We at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the NASA Science Missions Directorate Astrophysics Forum have...
Hi All, Our EPO group at McGill University is organizing a project to raise awareness about dark skies issues that we could use help on. Our basic idea is to...
Dear AstroLrnr Colleagues: I wonder if I might ask for your help. The ASP is holding a national workshop on astronomy for teachers in grades 3 -12 in Tucson...
Preview of the links students study for their current events quiz for this coming week: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/casa2012.html ...
Lois Cohen, long-time artist and panorama painter at Griffith Observatory from the early 70s through the mid-80s, died in February. A memorial for her will be...
Hi all, I had a fun experience in my class that I wanted to share. Like many of you I give out NASA stickers to my students when they make a good point or ask...
Does anyone know of a good source of information for the origin of the atoms and molecules in the earth's atmosphere and why they have the abundances that they...
(Somehow I am not able to post at the website...) There was a recent discussion about Kevin Lee's idea of posting lectures online (pre-class lectures) and...
Hi All, Any idea how one gets into a career in Science Education Policy? One of my former research students who has done a lot with K-12 education in NYC, is ...
Preview of the links students study for their current events quiz for this coming week: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/about-next.html ...
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), in partnership with the American Geophysical Union and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, is delighted...
