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Journal Article | July 2022
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Journal Article | August 2021
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Online Extras: When the Sun Goes Dark
Page | March 2020
Online Extras: When the Sun Goes Dark If you have purchased When the Sun Goes Dark, you can view the accompanying additional resources online. These resources are for your personal use only and are not to be redistributed. To view the online extras, please type in the last word in the body text on the next to …
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Book Chapter | May 2009
Although this lab is not an inquiry activity, it is another exercise to help students think about light rays and ray diagrams. The students think that the point of the lab is to calculate the diameter of the Sun. Really…
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Book Chapter | March 2012
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about relative size. The probe is designed to find out how large students think the Earth is compared with the Sun.
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Book Chapter | March 2017
In this lesson, students try to explain what happens in the solar eclipse, and why a person in one location can see a solar eclipse while a person in another place cannot. Key words and concepts covered are solar…
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Book Chapter | April 2016
In this chapter, the objective of the activity “Making Sun Prints” is to understand that although we can’t see the ultraviolet light part of sunlight, it can have an effect on plants, our skin, and light-sensitive…
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Journal Article | April 2021
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Journal Article | December 2020
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Book Chapter | March 2012
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the position of the Sun in relation to the Earth. The probe is designed to find out how students envision the Earth as a sphere in space and its…
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Book Chapter | March 2012
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about relative distance. The probe is designed to find out if students can apply the same scale used to represent the difference in sizes between the…
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Aha! Moments in Sun and Moon Measurements
Journal Article | May 2023
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Book Chapter | March 2012
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about representations of the solar system. The probe is designed to reveal students’ ideas about the overall shape of the solar system and the planets…
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Understanding and Tracking the Daily Motion of the Sun
Book Chapter | December 2015
In this chapter, students will easily recognize the learning they do related to the disciplinary core ideas, specifically that shadows made by the Sun can be observed, described, predicted, and explained with models to…
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When The Sun Goes Dark (Book Sample)
Book Chapter | March 2017
This richly illustrated book is a fun way to help young astronomers understand all the excitement during a solar eclipse. The book tells how two curious children and their grandparents re-create eclipses in their living…
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