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Finding Our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution 
  
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This website provides computer simulations and curricular materials for teaching the history of planetary astronomy from Ancient Greece to Isaac Newton. The site includes worksheets…
https://sites.berry.edu/ttimberlake/teaching/copernican-revolution/
Peer Reviewed Item Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy 
  
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Project CLEA develops laboratory exercises that illustrate modern astronomical techniques using a virtual observatory, digital data and color images. Each CLEA laboratory exercise…
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/CLEAhome.html
Stellar Parallax and Aberration Package  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Stellar Parallax and Aberration Launcher package is a self-contained file for teaching the concepts of parallax and aberration of light as they apply to astronomy. The file…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12029&DocID...
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Modeling the History of Astronomy: Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho 
  
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T. Timberlake, Astron. Educ. Rev., 12 (1), 010201 (2013).
This paper describes a series of activities in which students investigate and use the models of planetary motion introduced by the Hellenistic astronomer Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12579&DocID...
Astronomy of the Earth's Motion in Space 
  
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An algebra-based overview of elementary and pre-telescope astronomy. Topics covered include sundials, seasons, calendars, precession, shape and rotation of Earth, Greek astronomy,…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sastron.htm
Mass - Comparing Masses Without Use of Gravity 
  
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This is the first of three linked web pages. The one listed introduces the concept of mass and the question of how it may be measured without recourse to gravity, e.g. in the…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Smass.htm
CLEA: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars 
  
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The software for this exercise presents students with a radio telescope they can point at a source in the sky, viewing the output of the radio receiver on a graphic display that…
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/plsrlab.html
SETI Institute 
  
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The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute's mission is to explore, understand, and explain the origin, nature, prevalence and distribution of life in the…
http://www.seti.org/
CLEA: Astrometry of Asteroids 
  
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This exercise incorporates software designed to find asteroids using digital images of the sky taken at different times, along with software designed to measure the precise positions…
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/astlab.html
CLEA: The Revolution of the Moons of Jupiter 
  
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The purpose of this lab is to illustrate the measurement of the mass of a planet using Kepler's third law. The software provides a view of Jupiter at four magnifications, along with…
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/juplab.html
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