I have set forth a number of personal goals for my introductory Astro class this semester. One of them is to give students more exercises and lab activities...
... The labs we used last spring at Vanderbilt are online at: http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~rknop/classes/a102/fall2003/labs/ "Labs To Do" has the link to...
Robert A. Knop Jr.
robert.a.knop@...
Jan 10, 2004 8:01 pm
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Do you have your students using any simple homemade instruments? There are patterns for both a quadrant and cross-staff at: ...
Greetings! An adjunct in my department is interested in finding a set of images for a terrestrial body in all of the wavelengths (ie: radio, infrared, visible,...
... I've known of two publicly available sets of images one was a poster produced by, I believe, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (http://www.nrao.edu)...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Jan 31, 2004 12:58 am
842
NASA (the SIRTF science center, sirtf@...) has a nice new poster on "The Multiwavelength Universe" that includes a series of pictures of the Moon...
Storrs, Alex
astorrs@...
Jan 31, 2004 12:59 am
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Hello, Here is a link to the Multiwavelength Astronomy Gallery -- a lot of it is galaxies etc., but there is one "gallery" of the Sun and the Moon in X-ray,...
Catherine Garland
garland@...
Jan 31, 2004 1:30 am
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A National Symposium on Teaching Astronomy for Non-science Majors July 16 - 18, 2004 on the campus of Tufts University A 3-day hands-on symposium on teaching ...
Hello all, I am a graduate student in astronomy & education at the University of Michigan. I am currently developing a 6-week middle school curriculum on...
... It's not, really. It depends on what you're taking the average of -- but something like 90% of the stars in the Galaxy are smaller, cooler, less massive,...
Robert A. Knop Jr.
robert.a.knop@...
Feb 15, 2004 4:53 pm
847
Position announcement: Assistant Professor, Geoscience Education The Department of Geography and the Office of Science and Math Education at Southern Illinois...
Julia, In response to your astrolrner post, my bias in astronomy education places emphasis on observable phenomenon. Rather than say "I'm going to teach about...
... places ... teach ... can ... Yes, that would be an interesting perspective to take. This unit will certainly be inquiry based. And I think that there are...
I'm teaching a 30 hour astronomy short course this summer to gifted 7th through 9th graders and also a 15 hour astronomy short course to gifted 4th through 6th...
Go to >http://handsonuniverse.org and download everything in site to fit your age group. Focus on the Hands-On Universe Solar System stuff. Yes, you will have...
RE: Good Texts I am planning to use Sky and Telescope as the text in my undergraduate astronomy survey course this fall. S and T offers a 1 year on-line ...
Greetings, Tim Slater, Gina Brissenden and others started a database of journal articles in astronomy education. This was hosted on a server at the Univ. of...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Mar 5, 2004 12:37 am
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I recently noticed that there is a variation in how I use the words "young" and "old". I'm not an astronomer, so I can easily slip into poor or inconsistent...
I think most astronomers discuss such things in terms of the object's redshift. When they write or speak for the general public, they will often "translate" to...
Yes, I also speak of redshifts. But would an object with high redshift be an "old" object or a "young" object? BTW I noticed that the heading of your reply...
I would tend to use distance as the descriptor when describing quasars/galaxies. BUT if one is trying to describe the earliest formed galaxies (describing ...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Mar 5, 2004 7:15 pm
859
Yes, some servers are routinely labeling items coming from listserv servers as spam. Frustrating, now not only do you have to pull the spam out of the good ...
Tom Olien
tom.olien@...
Mar 5, 2004 9:21 pm
860
... My apologies for the Spam label. I replied from my office computer, and my school district's IT department has a spam filter that labels suspicious...
... When speaking to the public or school groups in the planetarium setting, I speak of distances (to M31, for example) in terms of light years, and explain...
The American Museum of Natural History is seeking a Program Manager and an Assistant Program Manager position for its ongoing educational and outreach programs...
Rachel Connolly
connolly@...
Mar 12, 2004 3:16 pm
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Here is some information from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey outreach/education section -- they have some nice projects set-up for a range of student levels...
Catherine Garland
garland@...
Mar 18, 2004 1:10 pm
864
... Dr. Edward E. Prather Assistant Research Scientist University of Arizona Steward Observatory 933 N Cherry Ave. Tucson, AZ 85721 ph: 520-621-6530 fax:...
Ed Prather
eprather@...
Mar 26, 2004 1:35 pm
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Excellence in Science Education A EPO Excellence Symposium in Boulder, CO Evening Reception on Wednesday, April 28, 7-9:30pm, Boulder Broker Inn All Day...
ASTRONOMY TEACHING WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT May 29-30, 2004 in Denver, Colorado (9am-5pm) Prior to the American Astronomical Society Meeting June 21-23, 2004 in...
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