The Classroom Astronomer

The Magazine for the Teachers of Astronomy



Issue 9 - Fall 2011

  Article  Materials  URLs
The Lunar Parallax and December's International Measure The Moon Night The article itself Geobytes City Distance Measurer

International Measure the Moon Night website
Archimede's Updated - Give Me A Satellite and I'll Measure Earth's Mass! Charts for determining the heights of satellite orbits
Stellarium software

Paper plate education website


Satellite passage prediction website
Using Galileoscopes to Duplicate Galileo's Solar Observations ALPO Solar Observation Form Baader solar film

Space Weather

ALPO Solar Interest Group

Space for Math - Finding Exo-Planets Two light curves of exoplanetary transits
NASA Space Math

Kepler mission data archive


Space Telescope instructions for working with Kepler archives

The Solar System Ballet, or Chaos Can Be Fun!
Star Motions With Sky Simulators
Planispheres:
David Chandler Night Sky Wheel


Uncle Al's Sky Wheel

Sky and Telescope's Star Wheel

National Research Council of Canada's Wheel


Stellarium software

World Wide Telescope


RAP Sheet for Astronomy: Pupils Produce Their Own Narratives
Inspired by the History of Science:
Animation Movies Concern the Geocentric-
Heliocentric Debate
poster design and poster presentation concerning cases from the history of science:
(www.atlaswiki.com/page/science+teacher+
etraining(stet)
, www.stet.wetpaint.com),

group discussion on historical texts
(www.atlaswiki.com/page/free+fall,
ppp.unipv.it/map),

web-site design for the use of instructional material and activities of the classroom inspired by the history of science (www.atlaswiki.wetpaint.com,
www.stet.wetpaint.com, www.ppp.unipv.it/map,
www.hipst.eled.auth.gr).


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