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This is the final paper in a five-paper series describing our national study of the teaching and learning of cosmology in general education astronomy college-level courses. A significant portion of this work was dedicated to the development of five new Lecture-Tutorials that focus on addressing ...
InstructorLindsy Frazer Dr. Frazer has taught several college level Science courses and has a master's degree in Human Biology and a PhD in Library and Information Science. When the moon is full and bright in the night sky it might seem pretty close, but it is actually more than 200,000...
Because general-education astronomy may be the only college-level science course taken by these students, it is the last chance to shape the science attitudes of these future journalists, teachers, politicians, and voters. I report on an attempt to measure and induce changes in science attitudes...
The Summer Science Program offers academically gifted high school students the opportunity to participate in a real-world research project to determine the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid from direct astronomical observations. Students learn to apply college-level physics, astronomy, calculus, and program...
SPACE Group of Company, Space India offers Astronomy & Space Science Education - Online (Brahmand), Schools (K12),...
The MIPEP is a two-week summer boarding school for physics teachers who had limited training in physics: usually 0-2 credit hours of college-level courses. The school was organized by the Mitchell Institute and Texas A{\\&}M Department o... T Erukhimova,A Belyanin,B Dutta - American ...
Astronomy was a required subject in the first American secondary level schools, the academies of the 18th century. When these were supplanted a century later by public high schools, astronomy still was often required, subsumed into courses of Natural Philosophy. Reasons given at that time to suppo...
the iao’s main purpose is to promote astronomy and associated sciences in schools, primarily via general education. more talented high school students are likely to be interested in learning astronomy at the university level as part of activities such as iao, clearing the way for the future ...
Percival Lowell was the quintessential “top-down” astronomer. He never looked at things from the ground level, always from on high. The American literary critic Christopher Benfey writes, in introducing Lowell’s 1891 ascent of the sacred Japanese...