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Table of Contents
What
Would Galileo Do? A
Curriculum Approach -
Design a course around
Galileo’s discoveries, and his creation of
the scientific method.
The
Classroom Tablet, or How I
Learned to Love Apple in My
Astronomy Class - What can you do as a
teacher in the classroom with an
Apple iPad? For one thing, you
can recover from a lack of an
interactive Smart Board and do live,
graphic demonstrations. Here
are some teaching tips for the
teacher, on whiteboarding, Moon
phasing, 3-D views of the universe,
planets and sky, and even some
physics, on a tablet device.
Columns:
Astronomy
of the Northern
Sky - The
Brightnesses of
Stars
- The
apparent
brightness, or
magnitude, of a
star is much
more precise
today than when
Hipparchus
created the
system.
How well can you
judge
brightness?
This issue's
column looks at
the system,
showing you
stars of exactly
whole
magnitudes,
stars with
differences of
one or more
magnitudes, and
tenths of a
magnitude (how
close a
difference can
YOU detect?),
atmospheric
extinction and
light pollution
measures, and
finally
measuring the
magnitudes of
stars that vary,
with star charts
and a test photo
to practice on.
Astronomical
Teachniques - The
Jig-sawed H-R
Diagram; What Kinds
of Facts Are There
Really?
Photons
Focused On -
Stonehenge, A
Teaching
Tool?l
- A photo story showing highlights of Stonehenge and
a proposed
exercise,
setting up the
Station Stones
in your
schoolyard to
monitor the
northernmost
and
southernmost
Sun and Moon
rising points.
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