 |
Article |
Materials |
URLs |
| Discovering
Astronomy Through Poetry |
|
Programs to use to determine the skies
during a poem's time period:
http://www.starrynight.com/
http://www.stellarium.org
http://www.nightskyatlas.com/
Ted Kooser's "After Hours" poem
The Art of Poetry
Mannone's
slideshow, “Longfellow’s Mars”
Two good sources you can use for a timeline: http://www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/uts/timeline.html
and http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/fix/student/timelineindex.mhtml |
| Sketching The Moon
and Galaxies |
|
Astronomy Sketch of the DayWebsite
|
| Taking Spreadsheets
from Dull to Dynamic With Animation |
Kepler's
Third Law.xls
Escape
Velocity.xls
Blackbody
Radiation and Wien's Law.xls
Doppler
Shift.xls
|
Developer's Guide
to Excelets
|
| Simulations on your Online
Course Pages With HTML5 |
The
Code for the Retrograde Motion Demonstrator
|
The Accessible
Universe.
The
Retrograde Motion demonstrator |
| Which Toy Universe Would a
Teacher Want for the Holidays? |
|
Manufacturers of Toy Universes:
Toysmith.com
Unclemilton.com
Sciencetech (Elenco)
Discovery Store
www.ioptron.com
|
| This Issue's Most Puzzling Terms -
Planetary Configuration and Light Terms |
The
Puzzle, the Clues, and the Answer Key |
|
The
Classroom Astronomer
