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eCUIP Project: Cultural Astronomy -- Bringing the Heavens to Earth 
  
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This teaching module, part of the University of Chicago Internet Project, explores astronomy from the cultural context of past societies and their observations of the heavens. What…
http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/science/cultural_astronomy/index.ht...
eCUIP Project: Where Is Polaris? 
  
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This interactive tutorial promotes understanding of why Earth's rotation makes it appear as though stars are orbiting the Earth. The simulation features Polaris (the North Star) as…
http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/science/cultural_astronomy/interact...
NOVA: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens 
  
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This is a multimedia module on the life and contributions of Galileo. It includes a four-part interactive section in which students can conduct virtual versions of his classic…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/galileo-battle-for-the-heavens.htm...
Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars 
  
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This tutorial talks about how the distance to the stars was determined. It begins with the first attempt made by Aristarchus and the subsequent wrong answers until final…
http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/parallax.html
The Round Earth and Christopher Columbus 
  
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This web page describes observations that show the earth is a sphere and the history of these observations. The round shape of the Earth may be inferred from the existence of a…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Scolumb.htm
From Stargazers to Starships: Spaceflight 
  
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This is an historical overview of spaceflight, stressing the technology of rockets, satellites and orbits, and its use in unmanned missions. It contains sections on rocket motion,…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Spaceflt1.htm
Kepler and His Laws 
  
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This is a set of 7 illustrated web pages discussing Kepler's laws. Included are equations and properties of conic sections, the scale of the solar system, the energy equation for…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Skeplaws.htm
The Calendar 
  
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These web pages provide a short overview of the common (Gregorian) calendar and some less-common ones--Julian, Jewish (leap months), Moslem, Persian (New Year on the spring equinox),…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Scalend.htm
Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide 
  
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This resource guide for teachers and learners provides a large set of print and web-based resources about the contributions of women to astronomy. It includes sections on more than…
https://astrosociety.org/education-outreach/resource-guides/women-in-ast...
Spacetime 101 
  
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Spacetime 101 provides basic background covering how mathematical models of space and time have evolved since ancient times, from the Pythagorean Rule to Newtonian mechanics, Special…
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