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Measurement of the Sidereal Day with Tracker  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Measurement of the Sidereal Day with Tracker Lab uses the Tracker video analysis tool to measure and analyze the motion stars near Polaris (the North Celestial Pole) to determine…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11614&DocID...
Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker Lab uses the Tracker video analysis tool to measure and analyze the motion of sunspots to determine the solar rotation rate.…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11617&DocID...
Logarithmic Maps of the Universe 
  
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Instructors can use images from this website to teach students about recently revised map of the universe which illustrates recent discoveries, ranging from Kuiper belt objects in…
https://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/
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
Lenses and Telescopes 
  
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In this laboratory activity, students investigate properties of lenses and simple telescope construction. Students will describe the nature of convex lenses, measure the focal length…
http://web.archive.org/web/20130622043239/http://fileserver.net-texts.co...
Resource Guides for Astronomy Education 
  
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This web page links to recently created or updated resource guides for introductory astronomy. These instructional resource guides include: information about the history and present…
http://www.fraknoi.com/resource-guides-on-astronomy-education/
Orbital Motion 
  
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This is an activity intended to help students understand orbital motion and Kepler's Laws through a comparison of a circle and an ellipse and the application of Kepler's Law of…
http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9111.html
ASPIRE: Star Life Cycle 
  
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High Resolution Fly's Eye: Physics at the University of Utah
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This website provides a tutorial on the evolution of stars. It begins with proto-stars, then provides information about main-sequence stars, hydrostatic equilibrium, helium burning,…
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/Labs/StarLife/
Introduction to Lenses & Telescopes 
  
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This lab teaches students: how to determine focal length using the thin lens equation, how the diameter of a lens affects brightness, and how to determine image magnification and…
http://web.archive.org/web/20120808193834/http://www.physics.isu.edu/~ha...
The Thousand Yard Model 
  
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This lesson discusses the solar system, the relative sizes of the planets, and their relative separation in space. This exercise is a useful for demonstrating the size of the solar…
https://web.archive.org/web/20210417021139/https://www.noao.edu/educatio...
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