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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/
A One Credit Hour Eclipse Course for 2024: Description and Offer to the Community 
  
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This github repository provides materials for a turn-key, general-education level, interdisciplinary eclipse course. It is designed to help prepare for the Apr 8, 2024 total…
https://github.com/gwilliger/Eclipsecourse_2024
Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion: An Overview for Science Teachers 
  
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This web page provides the lecture notes for an overview of Kepler's laws. It includes historical notes and related classroom resources such as applications, problems, and teacher's…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Kep3laws.htm
The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project: Online Labs for Introductory Level Astronomy 
  
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The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project site provides high quality applets simulating important astrophysical phenomena such as eclipsing binaries, stellar evolution on the H-R…
http://astro.unl.edu/naap/
Planetary Motion 
  
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M. Fowler and H. Welch
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This web page demonstrates Kepler's Laws through a Flash simulation. The user places an object at some distance from the Sun and gives it an initial velocity to orbit the sun. Once…
http://galileoandeinstein.phys.virginia.edu/more_stuff/Applets/Kepler/ke...
Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project: Planetary Orbit Simulator 
  
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This simulation illustrates the physics of planetary orbits. The user can control the size and eccentricity of the orbit. Each of Kepler's three laws and aspects of Newton's Law are…
http://astro.unl.edu/naap/pos/animations/kepler.swf
The Solar System 
  
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M. Hackworth
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This lab asks students to create a mini solar system to scale, to be able to explain terms associated with orbits, and to demonstrate an understanding of Kepler's laws.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120113043745/http://www.physics.isu.edu/~ha...

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