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Astronomy for Educators

Astronomy for Educators provides new and accomplished K-12 instructors with concepts and projects for low-cost, high-impact STEM classroom instruction that is built around the National Academies National Research Council's K-12 Framework for Science Education.

Astronomy CosmologyPhysics
Author
Daniel E. Barth
Publisher
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Language
EN
Category
Basic Sciences
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Contents· 47 sections
  1. 01: Starting our Journey of Discovery
  2. 1.01: Building a Solar Clock and Calendar
  3. 02: Lunar Phases A Simple Scientific Model
  4. 2.01: Making a Moon Phase Map
  5. 03: Modeling Earth and Moon Together
  6. 3.01: Making a Scale Model of the Earth-Moon System
  7. 3.02: Exploring the Moons Orbit
  8. 3.03: Rotation and Revolution
  9. 04: Measuring Time in the Sky
  10. 4.01: The Earth Clock
  11. 4.02: Moonrise and Moonset
  12. 05: Measuring and Mapping the Sky
  13. 5.01: Altitude and Azimuth Your Place in the Sky
  14. 5.02: Measuring the Nightly Path of the Moon
  15. 5.03: Measuring the Moons Orbital Motion
  16. 5.04: Measuring the Earth with Eratosthenes
  17. 5.05: Mapping the Constellations
  18. 06: Exploring Gravity
  19. 6.01: Galileo Explores Gravity with Pendulums
  20. 6.02: Hookes Pendulum
  21. 6.03: Galileos Falling Bodies
  22. 6.04: Packards Acceleration Ramp
  23. 07: Proving the Heliocentric Model Correct
  24. 7.01: Modeling the Moons of Jupiter
  25. 7.02: The Phases of Venus
  26. 08: Understanding Big Numbers
  27. 8.1: Million Billion Trillion- Big Numbers and Money
  28. 8.2: The Thousand-Meter Solar System
  29. 09: Orbital Dynamics- Planets and Moons in Motion
  30. 9.01: A Working Model of the Lunar Phases
  31. 9.02: Aristotles Flat Moon
  32. 10: War of the Worlds- How Impacts Build Planets
  33. 10.01: Modeling the Moons Surface in Clay
  34. 10.02: Dynamically Modelling The Moons Surface in Flour
  35. 10.03: Exploring Crater Rays in Detail
  36. 10.04: Dynamically Modeling The Lunar Surface in Plaster
  37. 11: The Four Seasons - Two Competing Models
  38. 11.01: The Elliptical Model of the Seasons
  39. 11.02: The Tilted Axis Model of the Seasons
  40. 12: Safely Observing the Sun
  41. 12.01: The Pinhole Camera
  42. 12.02: The Binocular Projector
  43. 12.3: The Tree Projector
  44. 13: Solar and Lunar Eclipses
  45. 13.01: Modeling a Solar Eclipse
  46. 13.02: Modeling a Lunar Eclipse
  47. 13.03: Why are Eclipses so Rare