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Project Earth Science: Astronomy, Revised 2nd Edition
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How well can your students … • Illustrate the reason for Earth’s seasons? • Explain how far a light year is? • Simulate the phases of the Moon? • Describe the effects of greenhouse gases? •…
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Astronomy: 45 New Formative Assessment Probes
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What do your students know—or think they know—about what causes night and day, why days are shorter in winter, and how to tell a planet from a star? Find out with this book on astronomy, the latest in NSTA’s popular…
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Sidewalk Astronomy: Students and teachers take astronomy to the street
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After sharing his large telescope with passersby on a busy street corner in Chicago, the author started the Sidewalk Astronomy Club to involve students in the experience. As a result sidewalk astronomy has become a…
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Make abstract astronomy more concrete for your entire class wtih lessons originally intended for visually impaired students.
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Scope on the Skies: Summer astronomy
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Re-visit the summer of 2004 by discovering its celestial events and learning about the Cassini/Huygens spacecraft activity that also occurred that year--which has implications today as it continues to orbit the…
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Invite an Alien to Astronomy Night
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Dozens of inflatable aliens recently “descended” upon the authors’ middle school to kick-off their first school-wide Astronomy night. With an estimated attendance of over 500, their eighth-grade students hosted over a…
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Science Shorts: Astronomies of Scale
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Astronomical scale is a difficult concept for elementary students to grasp when they begin studying the solar system. A school yard solar system model gives students a tangible experience of astronomical distances.…
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