The Astronomy Center has provided educational resources to introductory astronomy educators since 2003. Over the past 20 years, the rapid pace of discovery has rendered some of our linked resources obsolete. Thus, the Astronomy Center will be decommissioned on March 1, 2022. Our highest quality resources will be retained on ComPADRE.org.

Astronomy Center.org


home - login - register - about - sitemap
advanced search

Search Results

You may use the options below to change your display:
Alter display preferences

The following options can help you tailor your search display:

results per page
Restricted to Resource Type: Curriculum
Close your folders

Refine your search


Narrow your results

By Subject:

By Resource Type:

By Context:
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (11)
  • (12)
  • (7)
  • (1)

By Collection:


|  Next >>   
Results #1-#10 of 12
sort by: relevance | subject | date | title | author
Stellar Parallax and Aberration Package  [ Computer Program ]
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
T. Timberlake
Post a comment | Relations
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…
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
L. Marschall, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good
View comments | Relations
Project CLEA develops laboratory exercises that illustrate modern astronomical techniques using a virtual observatory, digital data and color images. Each CLEA laboratory exercise…
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
T. Timberlake
Post a comment
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…
Astronomy Education Review
  
Match Score:
100
Post a comment
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…
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
D. Stern
Post a comment
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…
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
D. Stern
Post a comment
An algebra-based overview of elementary and pre-telescope astronomy. Topics covered include sundials, seasons, calendars, precession, shape and rotation of Earth, Greek astronomy,…
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Post a comment
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…
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
L. Marschall, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good
Post a comment | Relations
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…
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
L. Marschall, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good
Post a comment
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…
  
Match Score:
100
Byline:
L. Marschall, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good
Post a comment
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…
|  Next >>   
Results #1-#10 of 12