Dear astrolrner, I'd like to teach nuclear physics to a group of 3-4 graders I visit regularly. I would like them to be able to build nuclei using materials ...
David I did a lot of work as a graduate student for my dissertation work investigating the conceptual and reasoning difficulties students (ms to non-sceince to...
I have had great success with assignments that are - on purpose - not done in class but rather in student's real lives, on the www, or YouTube. I encourage...
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Stephanie J. Slater
sslaterwyo@...
Apr 29, 2013 4:25 pm
Hi David, Of all of the topics that we've looked at in science ed, we probably know the most about how students can come to understand atomic molecular theory....
Hi all, Next semester I am considerably increasing the class size in my general education astronomy course, from ~45 to ~150+. I have two questions for you...
Amy, Having used undergraduate helpers in a basic astronomy courses, I would suggest that you hire enough so that the work load outside the class for each...
Hi All, The AAS is working on expanding their interaction with the public via FB and Twitter and Crystal Tinch (tinch@...), the AAS Communications manager,...
Hi all. The ASP is pleased to announce that a limited number of scholarships are available for educators who wish to attend our 2013 Cosmos in the Classroom ...
Hi Amy, I use undergraduate learning assistants to facilitate in and out of the classroom group work whenever I can. Here are my thoughts: - 1 LA per group of...
Dear Astrolrners, I thought I would point you to this article at Phys.org: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-student-weaknesses-science-teachers-pupils.html The...
One I've been hearing a lot lately for some reason: In cosmology, some think that the entire universe is expanding in such a way that everything is growing...
My students all think higher energy light goes faster. Several of them also think there is more than one star in our solar system. They also think the planets...
David, Brought this question up to a small group of HS teacher, their first response was isn't there other more relevant content for 3rd and 4th graders?...
I would strongly encourage you to look at both the new Next Generation Science Standards and the AAAS Atlas of Science Literacy to see what concepts are...
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David Wittman
dwittman@...
May 3, 2013 10:48 pm
This is not a typical school and it has nothing to do with my research. The class size is very small (6), and a substantial fraction of these 6 are very...
Hi David, Perhaps one could design male and female pieces and print them out on a 3-D printer. You can make all sorts of things this way! I've never used a 3-D...
There are indeed good models for "undergraduate helpers." CU has a stunningly successful undergraduate program. It has run for 10 years and is being copied by...
Those of you who enjoy, as well as learn from, Phil Sadler's work may enjoy watching the videos that my intro astronomy students created this spring. Students...
Hello Astrolrner community, At University of Arizona Department of Astronomy we are restructuring the intro gen. ed. courses to include about 8 days for lab...
Important additional note, these need to be daytime labs if possible. Also we do have solar observing capabilities with our telescopes. Ed On May 8, 2013, at...
Hi Ed (and anyone else who's interested), I have a bunch of labs that I developed, and I would love it if others used them! They are all daytime labs. They...
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...
Hi All, Just discovered all these lectures from the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning. Some of them look very interesting/relevant. Do y'all recognize...
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Carolyn Brinkworth
csb@...
May 13, 2013 7:53 pm
Kelle, thanks very much for sending this link round - these look like they could be really interesting. Names I recognise: Robert Siegel (George Washington...
Some years back I had a file containing images of ellipses filled with varying degrees of light/dark for doing a sorting of their albedos. Then there was...
And all I needed to do was take a break from the computer to remember where it could be. It was part of the Dawn mission education materials. The albedo...
Hi all, I am teaching statistics this summer to university students in an unnamed country which is not well-known for supporting creativity. I was wondering...
