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The Magazine for the Teachers of Astronomy
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Subscribe to The Classroom Astronomer! Renew your Subscription Purchase Back Issues (coming shortly) The TCA Rewards Program Purchase the Current Issue The Classroom Astronomer is a quarterly PDF and printed publication designed as a practitioner journal for classroom teachers of astronomy. While centered at the high school level, it also provides tips, techniques and informative how-to articles for teachers of grades K-8 and undergraduate college "Astro 101" courses. Our mission is to increase the amount of astronomy in the school systems and improve the skills of teachers. Current issue
Table of Contents Sky Teacher's summer travel special issue An International
Asteroid Hunt -
""We
discovered an asteroid!!"
How many students get to say that? Only those at 250 schools
on
four continents. Read how you can participate.
Ten Ideas for "Natural" Astronomy from Italy - Astronomy courses just got a lot harder to come by in Italy's version of "No Child Left Behind." A top ten list of ideas to let Nature help teachers put astronomy back into the curriculum.. Russian Astronomy Holds On In Unique School - Astronomy got dropped from the curriculum in the schools of the first astronauts...except at least one, where the only school with a fixed planetarium dome keeps the stars coming to its students and the region's. See how your curriculum compares to that of Russia. Astronomy in India, National but not Local - Ancient astronomy observatories, modern spacefarers and way too much astrology--students don't get astronomy until they have been in school seven years. With a high drop-out rate, India resorts to national popularization programs instead of national astronomy standards. Cell Phone-tography Helps Raise Interest in Ontario - Using cell phones to take pictures is one way a Canadian teacher helps raise interest in light polluted Ontario. Cover Story - Astronomy Education Under the Southern Cross - Students explore Mars in spacesuits, a Who-Done-It in a planetarium dome--astronomy is active and growing in Australia! What could we learn from a national astronomy curriculum as it is being implemented. Regular columns include:
Read by astronomy educators in the United States and 15 other countries. Join our Universe! Subscribe to The Classroom Astronomer! Renew your Subscription Purchase Back Issues (coming shortly) The TCA Rewards Program Purchase the Current Issue |
Coming in the Fall 2010 Issue: Starting
a new school year
with observational events
Jupiter
returns to
prominence - what to see and how to use it in teaching astronomy.The December lunar eclipse - use it to find the moon's distance. And, as a pre-eclipse exercise, using different sized balls to predict the length and shape of Earth's shadow. Citizen Science activities you can use. and more! Plus our regular columns: The Fall Sky Planning Calendar for
those summer camps, work- shops and programs.
The RAP Sheet of Astronomy-- more research you can use. Astronomical Teachniques - how to bring the universe to the classroom. Arriving
September!
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