Astronomy for Educators

by Daniel E. Barth

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Astronomy for Educators provides new and accomplished K-12 instructors with concepts and projects for low-cost, high-impact STEM classroom instruction that is built around the National Academies National Research Council's K-12 Framework for Science Education.

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Publisher
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Subjects
Physics, Astronomy Cosmology
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Licensing
  7. Introduction
  8. About this Book
  9. 1: Starting our Journey of Discovery
  10. 1.1: Building a Solar Clock and Calendar
  11. 2: Lunar Phases – A Simple Scientific Model
  12. 2.1: Making a Moon Phase Map
  13. 3: Modeling Earth and Moon Together
  14. 3.1: Making a Scale Model of the Earth-Moon System
  15. 3.2: Exploring the Moon’s Orbit
  16. 3.3: Rotation and Revolution
  17. 4: Measuring Time in the Sky
  18. 4.1: The Earth Clock
  19. 4.2: Moonrise and Moonset
  20. 5: Measuring and Mapping the Sky
  21. 5.1: Altitude and Azimuth – Your Place in the Sky
  22. 5.2: Measuring the Nightly Path of the Moon
  23. 5.3: Measuring the Moon’s Orbital Motion
  24. 5.4: Measuring the Earth with Eratosthenes
  25. 5.5: Mapping the Constellations
  26. 6: Exploring Gravity
  27. 6.1: Galileo Explores Gravity with Pendulums
  28. 6.2: Hooke’s Pendulum
  29. 6.3: Galileo’s Falling Bodies
  30. 6.4: Packard’s Acceleration Ramp
  31. 7: Proving the Heliocentric Model Correct
  32. 7.1: Modeling the Moons of Jupiter
  33. 7.2: The Phases of Venus
  34. 8: Understanding Big Numbers
  35. 8.1: Million, Billion, Trillion- Big Numbers and Money
  36. 8.2: The Thousand-Meter Solar System
  37. 9: Orbital Dynamics- Planets and Moons in Motion
  38. 9.1: A Working Model of the Lunar Phases
  39. 9.2: Aristotle’s Flat Moon
  40. 10: War of the Worlds- How Impacts Build Planets
  41. 10.1: Modeling the Moon’s Surface in Clay
  42. 10.2: Dynamically Modelling The Moon’s Surface in Flour
  43. 10.3: Exploring Crater Rays in Detail
  44. 10.4: Dynamically Modeling The Lunar Surface in Plaster
  45. 11: The Four Seasons - Two Competing Models
  46. 11.1: The Elliptical Model of the Seasons
  47. 11.2: The Tilted Axis Model of the Seasons
  48. 12: Safely Observing the Sun
  49. 12.1: The Pinhole Camera
  50. 12.2: The Binocular Projector
  51. 12.3: The Tree Projector
  52. 13: Solar and Lunar Eclipses
  53. 13.1: Modeling a Solar Eclipse
  54. 13.2: Modeling a Lunar Eclipse
  55. 13.3: Why are Eclipses so Rare?
  56. Back Matter
  57. Index
  58. Famous Names in Astronomy
  59. Glossary
  60. Detailed Licensing