written by
the CAPER team,
Tim Slater,
Jeff Adams, and
Edward E. Prather
This is the Instructor's Guide for Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy. The tutorials cover topics such as: moon phases, light, telescopes, the solar system, our sun, stellar astronmy, characteristics of the Milky Way, and cosmology. Each section provides questions, activities, and a tutorial guide.
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March 4, 2004
by
Patricia Monahan
Record Updated:
Nov 02, 2009
by
Bruce Mason
Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy
Author: Carolyn Stonecipher
Posted: November 2, 2009 at 10:31AM
I am using this in my (first time) high school astronomy class (grades 10-12) and I think it is great. The students really get involved in discussing the questions and understand the concepts much better. There is little preparation on my part and the tutorials can be done in a regular non-lab classroon setting. The questions lead to more questions that the students really want to know; for example, Causes of Moon Phases led to a discussion of what the moon phases would look like to someone in the Southern Hemisphere. I bought the 2008 second edition for the additional exercises. Keep them coming!
Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research, T. Slater, J. Adams, and E. Prather, Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy: Instructor's Guide (2002), WWW Document, (http://www.physics.montana.edu/physed/instructorsguide.pdf).
Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research, T. Slater, J. Adams, and E. Prather. Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy: Instructor's Guide. 2002. http://www.physics.montana.edu/physed/instructorsguide.pdf (accessed 20 November 2009).
Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research, Tim Slater, Jeff Adams, and Edward Prather. Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy: Instructor's Guide. 2002. 20 Nov. 2009 <http://www.physics.montana.edu/physed/instructorsguide.pdf>.
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