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Historical
activities reproduced
Reproducing Eratosthenes and the
Size of the
Earth
Ptolemy
versus Copernicus - Supporting
Hypotheses
What is the
Size of the Moon?
Galileo's
Evidence - Observing Sunspots,
Moon Mountain Sizes, Venus
Kepler
Nails Down How the Solar System Works
Newton Adds
Mass
OTHER
WORLDS
Mapping
Other Worlds - Coordinates, Names and Potatoes
Learning
about Systems Using Graphing
Finding
and Mapping Other Worlds Using Light
(A Vernier Activity)
Winds and
Magnetic fields (A Vernier
Activity)
EARTH'S
MOTIONS
Time
and Altitudes of the Sun, The Size of
Earth, Earth's Rotation
Seasons
and Tilt - A Turning Misconceptions
into Labs Technique
Sundials
Vernier
Labs of Light and Temperature
MOON
UNIT
Let's
Bomb The Moon - A Study of Cratering
Find the
Size and Distance of the Moon
Why Does
the Moon Phase As It Does - How,
and How Long?
Measuring
the Moon's Surface
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PEDAGOGICAL
TEACH-NIQUES
Turning
Misconceptions into
Inquiry Labs,
Graphing
for
Information,
Using
Your Cell
Phone in
Astronomy Observations,
The
Multiple
Scientific
Methods,
Classification,
The
Scary
Stuff--Statistics, AAAAAH,
Errors
Can be
Corrected--Randomly and Systematically,
SCALES
OF THE UNIVERSE
Earth
Size With Eratosthenes, Moon Size With Eclipses, The Astronomical Unit
With Venus,
Sizes of Planetary Orbits With Kepler,
Distances to the Stars, The Size, Age and Expansion of the Universe
with Hubble
UNITS
BEING DEVELOPED
The
Tripod of Astronomy--Color, Brightness, Location
Astrophysics - Light and Spectroscopy
Light Pollution - A Night Workshop
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