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Space Physics and Terrestrial Effects 
  
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Publisher:
Space Environment Center
Main Level:
High School
Subjects:
Astronomy / Stars
Astronomy / The Sun
Astronomy / Solar System
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This curriculum guide is intended for high school teachers who are teaching solar physics, especially the effects of solar activity on terrestrial planets. The chapters discuss stellar evolution, the structure ...
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/Curric_7-12/
Sun-Centered Physics 
  
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Author:
Knisely, Linda S.
Main Level:
High School
Subject:
Astronomy / The Sun
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This site provides lesson plans that aim to teach pysics using the sun as an example. The lesson plans are called: 1. position, velocity and acceleration, 2. centripetal force and the law of universal gravitation, ...
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/~knisely/course_development.html
Determining Red-Shift in a Receding Star 
  
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Publisher:
Mitchell, Pat
Main Level:
High School
Subjects:
Astronomy / Cosmology
Astronomy / Stars
Light / General
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This activity introduces students to the concepts of the redshift of a receding star. Students will learn about the properties of light, the Doppler effect, and also about Hubble's discovery of the expansion ...
http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/classroom/activity2.html
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens 
  
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Editor:
Aguirre, Lauren
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / The Sun
Astronomy / Historical Astronomy
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In this activity students are asked to interpret a graph that represents the sunspot cycle from 1900 to 1990, then they are asked to graph the number of sunspots that occurred from 1995 to 2003 in order to ...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2912_galileo.html
Dynamical Astronomy JavaLab 
  
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Author:
Mihos, Christopher
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subject:
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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Author:
Hands-On Astrophysic
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subject:
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
Timing An X-ray Pulsar 
  
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Publisher:
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
Main Level:
High School
Subjects:
Astronomy / Stars
Astronomy / Stars / Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs
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This activity asks students to analyze both the x-ray light curve from a pulsar in the crab nebula and the Fourier Transform of the light curve. From this students must find the period of the light intensity, ...
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html
Determining the Extragalactic Distance Scale 
  
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Author:
Dutkevitch, Diane
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
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/
Imagine the Universe: Lesson Plan on Periodic Behavior and Data Analysis - Time That Period 
  
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Authors:
Lochner, Jim
Granger, Kara
Main Level:
High School
Subjects:
Motion, Forces, and Energy / Gravity / Orbits
Astronomy / Stars / Binary Stars
Waves and Pendula / Oscillations / Pendula
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This is a high school lesson plan on the topic of periodic motion. Students analyze data obtained from high-energy satellites of various binary stars orbital periods, then construct their own pendulum in ...
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lessons/time/time_period_cove...
CLEA: H-R Diagrams of Star Clusters 
  
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Authors:
Marschall, Laurence
Snyder, Glenn
Cooper, P. Richard
Hayden, Michael
Good, Rhonda
Main Level:
Lower Undergraduate
Subjects:
Astronomy / Stars / Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Astronomy / Stars / Star Clusters
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This lab illustrates how HR diagrams of star clusters are used to determine the distances and ages of the clusters. Students use real photometric data, star positions, and data analysis software to fit HR ...
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/hrlab.html
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