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What are the Top 10 hands-on teaching
activities for young beginning astronomy
students? These activities must be hands-on,
instructional and fun.
Here's what I have so far:
1. Ellipse Drawing
Using pencil, string, push pins and paper
draw an ellipse. Accompanied with
discussion of Kepler, orbits, conic
sections, etc.
2. Angular Distance
Talk about how your fist, at arms length,
is equivalent to an angular displacement of
10 degrees and apply to astronomical
dimensions and scales. Part of "Measuring
Astronomical Distances." Also part
of degree-radian and s = r*theta discussions.
3. Parallax
Some kind of ativity to intro and teach
parallax. Something like holding a
finger in front of your face and closing
one eye, then the other to experience
and analyze the parallax effect. Use to
measure, for example, the width of a
doorway then apply to astronomical entity.
4-10... any other ideas like the above
come to mind??
Thanks
Chris
activities for young beginning astronomy
students? These activities must be hands-on,
instructional and fun.
Here's what I have so far:
1. Ellipse Drawing
Using pencil, string, push pins and paper
draw an ellipse. Accompanied with
discussion of Kepler, orbits, conic
sections, etc.
2. Angular Distance
Talk about how your fist, at arms length,
is equivalent to an angular displacement of
10 degrees and apply to astronomical
dimensions and scales. Part of "Measuring
Astronomical Distances." Also part
of degree-radian and s = r*theta discussions.
3. Parallax
Some kind of ativity to intro and teach
parallax. Something like holding a
finger in front of your face and closing
one eye, then the other to experience
and analyze the parallax effect. Use to
measure, for example, the width of a
doorway then apply to astronomical entity.
4-10... any other ideas like the above
come to mind??
Thanks
Chris