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T. Arny's Astronomy Quizzes 
  
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Arny, Thomas. T.
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / Astronomy Education / Assessment
Astronomy / Fundamentals
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Thomas Arny's collection of online quizzes at the University of Massachusetts span the entire introductory astronomy curriculum. Subjects covered include historical astronomy, astronomical units and scales, ...
http://donald.phast.umass.edu/~arny/
Hubblesite: Videos by Category 
  
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Space Telescope Science Institute, Office of Public Outreach
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Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / Astronomy Education
Astronomy / Fundamentals
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This Hubblesite webpage helps users find videos, including astronomy recreations, animations, press conferences and interviews, from any news release. These movies include topics ranging from the rotation ...
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/browse/videos/
Learning-At-Bristol - Earth and Space 
  
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at-Bristol
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High School
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Astronomy / Fundamentals
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The At-Bristol website provides information on many earth and space sicence topics. These topics include the earth, the moon, planets, asteroids, the sun, eclipses, and space travel. It also provides a night ...
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http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/space_web/default.htm
Your Sky 
  
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Walker, John
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Lower Undergraduate
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Astronomy / Fundamentals / Night Sky
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Your Sky is an interactive online planetarium. This site allows you to choose the date, time, and location you wish to view. Even if you do not have the longitude or latitude of your location it allows you ...
http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/
Dynamical Astronomy JavaLab 
  
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Author:
Mihos, Christopher
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
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Astronomy / Fundamentals / Celestial Mechanics
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A collection of Java applets which explore the motion of planets, stars, and galaxies, galaxy collisions and cosmology. Each applet has background information on the pertinent astrophysics, a technical description ...
http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/JavaLab/web/main.html
Winter Variable Star Observing Activity in the Constellation Gemini 
  
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Hands-On Astrophysic
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Lower Undergraduate
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Astronomy / Fundamentals / Magnitude System
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This activity's objective is for students to estimate the magnitude of Zeta Gem, a cepheid variable in the constellation Gemini, over a thirty day period in order to construct a light curve. This activity ...
http://hoa.aavso.org/zetagem.pdf
UNL Astronomy ClassAction: Introductory Concepts 
  
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Lee, Kevin
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Astronomy Education at the University of Nebraska
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Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / Fundamentals
Astronomy / Astronomy Education / Education Research
Astronomy / Astronomy Education / Assessment
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This collection of questions and resources covers the standard first chapter in most astronomy textbooks. The questions are designed to be used for in-class student engagement activities. This topics include ...
http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/intro.html
Determining the Extragalactic Distance Scale 
  
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Dutkevitch, Diane
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Lower Undergraduate
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Astronomy / Cosmic Time and Distance / Distance Scales
Astronomy / Fundamentals
Astronomy / Stars
Astronomy / Cosmology
Astronomy / Cosmic Time and Distance / Cepheids
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In this activity students find a number of Cepheid variables in the galaxy M100. They then use their periods, average apparent magnitudes, and the Period-Luminosity relationships to determine the distance ...
http://astro.wku.edu/labs/m100/
STEM Colorado: Eclipsing Binaries 
  
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Authors:
McCray, Richard
Koelemay, Andrew
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
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Astronomy / Stars / Binary Stars
Astronomy / Fundamentals / Eclipses
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This applet demonstrates how one can infer the diameters and temperature of stars by measuring the brightness variations seen in an eclipsing binary star system. The applet displays binary stars eclipsing ...
http://scatter.colorado.edu/STEM-TPSoft/java/javaapps/eclipsingbinaries/...
STEM Colorado: Planetary Transits 
  
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McCray, Richard
Koelemay, Andrew
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Astronomy / Exoplanets / Detection Methods
Astronomy / Fundamentals / Celestial Mechanics
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This applet demonstrates how astronomers measure the properties of extra-solar planets by detecting planetary transits and eclipses. The applet shows a planet in orbit around a star. A graph plots the total ...
http://scatter.colorado.edu/STEM-TPSoft/java/javaapps/planetarytransits/...
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