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Project Earth Science: Astronomy, Revised 2nd Edition
NSTA Press Book |
How well can your students … • Illustrate the reason for Earth’s seasons? • Explain how far a light year is? • Simulate the phases of the Moon? • Describe the effects of greenhouse gases? •…
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Astronomy: 45 New Formative Assessment Probes
NSTA Press Book |
What do your students know—or think they know—about what causes night and day, why days are shorter in winter, and how to tell a planet from a star? Find out with this book on astronomy, the latest in NSTA’s popular…
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Who Speaks for Earth? Impacts of an Anti-Racist and Gender-Inclusive Training in an Astronomy Class
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As science educators, we have an important opportunity to influence perceptions of who does science, and we can work to empower students to make our disciplines more accessible to people of all backgrounds. This goal…
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Sidewalk Astronomy: Students and teachers take astronomy to the street
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After sharing his large telescope with passersby on a busy street corner in Chicago, the author started the Sidewalk Astronomy Club to involve students in the experience. As a result sidewalk astronomy has become a…
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Make abstract astronomy more concrete for your entire class wtih lessons originally intended for visually impaired students.
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Scope on the Skies: Summer astronomy
Journal Article |
Re-visit the summer of 2004 by discovering its celestial events and learning about the Cassini/Huygens spacecraft activity that also occurred that year--which has implications today as it continues to orbit the…
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Invite an Alien to Astronomy Night
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Dozens of inflatable aliens recently “descended” upon the authors’ middle school to kick-off their first school-wide Astronomy night. With an estimated attendance of over 500, their eighth-grade students hosted over a…