Physics & Astronomy

For introductory astronomy courses.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy are designed to help make large lecture-format courses more interactive. Each of the 29 Lecture-Tutorials is presented in a classroom-ready format, challenges students with a series of carefully designed questions that spark classroom discussion, engage students in critical reasoning, and require no equipment.

• Straightforward, classroom-ready format—Facilitates easy implementation of the Lecture-Tutorial in the classroom.

  • Integrates easily into the conventional lecture course.

• Highly structured activities—Designed to confront and resolve student conceptual and reasoning difficulties.

  • Encourages students to work in groups and discuss their answers.

• 29 tutorials—Based upon educational research on student misconceptions, demonstrated effective instructional strategies, and extensive pilot and field testing.

  • Helps students develop a better understanding of different concepts.

• Online Instructor's Guide. www.prenhall.com/tiponline

  • Provides instruction with “pre-tutorial” questions that can be used to easily assess the knowledge level of the class. Urges the instructor to use the Lecture-Tutorial if the majority of students cannot answer the questions correctly.

  • Provides instructors with “post-tutorial” questions that can be used to gauge the effectiveness of the Lecture-Tutorial before moving on to new material.

Naked-Eye Astronomy

Position                                                                                                                                       1

Motion                                                                                                                                         3

Seasonal Stars                                                                                                                             7

Solar vs. Sidereal Day                                                                                                                   11

Ecliptic                                                                                                                                        13

Path of the Sun                                                                                                                             19

Star Charts                                                                                                                                   23

The Cause of Moon Phases                                                                                                           25

Predicting Moon Phases                                                                                                                29

Luminosity, Temperature and Size                                                                                                  33

Blackbody Radiation                                                                                                                     37

Types of Spectra                                                                                                                           41

Analyzing Spectra                                                                                                                         43

Telescopes and Earth’s Atmosphere                                                                                               47

Observing Retrograde Motion                                                                                                         51

Orbital Period and Orbital Distance                                                                                                 53

Earth’s Changing Surface                                                                                                              57

Temperature and Formation of Our Solar System                                                                             61

Sun Size                                                                                                                                      63

Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes of Stars                                                                                    67

The Parsec                                                                                                                                   69

Parallax and Distance                                                                                                                   73

H-R Diagram                                                                                                                                 77

Spectroscopic Parallax                                                                                                                  79

Star Formation and Lifetimes                                                                                                         81

Stellar Evolution                                                                                                                            83

Milky Way Scales                                                                                                                         85

Looking at Distant Objects                                                                                                             89

Expansion of the Universe                                                                                                              91

Astronomy  (Physics & Astronomy)

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  Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy, 2/E
  Prather, Slater, Adams, Brissenden & CAPER
  ©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 144 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132392267 | ISBN-13: 9780132392266
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  Funded by the National Science Foundation,Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy is designed to help make large lecture-format courses more interactive with easy-to-implement student activities that can be integrated into existing course structures. The Second Edition of the Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy contains nine new activities that focus on planetary science, system related topics, and the interactions of Light and matter. These new activities have been created using the same rigorous development cycle that was used for the highly successful first edition. Each of the 38 Lecture-Tutorials, presented in a classroom-ready format, challenges students with a series of carefully designed questions that spark classroom discussion, engage students in critical reasoning, and require no equipment.

	Sample Activities | Instructor Resources | About the Authors

Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy, which was developed by the Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research (CAPER) Team, is a collection of classroom-tested activities designed for the large-lecture introductory astronomy class, although it is suitable for any astronomy class. The Lecture-Tutorials are short, structured activities designed for students to complete while working in pairs. Each activity targets one or more specific learning objectives based on research on student difficulties in astronomy. Most activities can be completed in 10 to 15 minutes.

The instructor's guide provides, for each activity, the recommended prerequisite knowledge, the learning goals for the activity, a pre-activity assessment question, an answer key, suggestions for implementation, and follow-up questions to be used for class discussion or homework.

Instructor's Guide
Adams
©2005 | Addison-Wesley | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0132272199 | ISBN-13: 9780132272193
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Clickers in the Astronomy Classroom
Duncan
©2007 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805396160 | ISBN-13: 9780805396164

Clickers in the Classroom
Duncan
©2005 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805387285 | ISBN-13: 9780805387285
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Cosmos DVD Boxed Set
Sagan
©2000 | Addison-Wesley | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 080538572X | ISBN-13: 9780805385724

CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings
©2007 | Addison-Wesley | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321491874 | ISBN-13: 9780321491879

CourseCompass Instructor Quick Start Guide (V4.2.1), 4/E
AWBC
©2005 | Addison-Wesley | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 032132126X | ISBN-13: 9780321321268

Edmund Scientific Star and Planet Locator
Edmund Scientific
©2007 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 1 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131402358 | ISBN-13: 9780131402355

Interwrite Personal Response System
EduCue, Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings
©2004 | Addison-Wesley | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321267354 | ISBN-13: 9780321267351

MasteringAstronomy™ Student Access Kit for Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Access Code Card | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321582195 | ISBN-13: 9780321582195
URL:  http://www.masteringastronomy.com
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Stand-alone Access Code Tutor Center
Addison-Wesley
©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Access Code Card | Instock
ISBN-10: 0201721708 | ISBN-13: 9780201721706
URL:  http://www.aw-bc.com/tutorcenter
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MasteringAstronomy™ Student Access Kit
Addison-Wesley
©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Access Code Card | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321582187 | ISBN-13: 9780321582188
URL:  http://www.masteringastronomy.com
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This title is a member of the The Educational Innovation-Astronomy Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Educational Innovation-Astronomy Series page.

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  Learner-Centered Astronomy Teaching: Strategies for ASTRO 101
  Slater & Adams
  ©2003 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 167 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130466301 | ISBN-13: 9780130466303
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  Strategies for Teaching ASTRO 101 is a guide for instructors of the introductory astronomy course for non-science majors. Written by two leaders in astronomy education research, the newest member of the Prentice Hall Education Innovative Series details various techniques to increase students' understanding and retention of astronomy topics, with an emphasis on making the lecture a forum for active student participation. Drawing from the large body of recent research to discover how students learn, this guide describes the application of multiple classroom-tested techniques to the task of teaching astronomy to predominantly non-science students.

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  Peer Instruction for Astronomy
  Green
  ©2003 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 178 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130263109 | ISBN-13: 9780130263100
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  For courses in Introductory Astronomy.

  Peer Instruction is a simple yet effective method for teaching science. Techniques of Peer Instruction for introductory college Physics classes were developed primarily at Harvard, and have aroused interest and excitement in the Physics Education community. This approach involves students in the teaching process, making physics more accessible to them.

  Peer Instruction is a new trend in astronomy that is finding strong interest and is ideally suited to introductory Astronomy classes. This book is an important vehicle for providing common ground for instructors using the method nationwide, and also provides a bridge to future collaborative efforts by instructors. It is key that the instructor has a large number of thought-provoking, conceptual short-answer questions aimed at a variety of class levels. While significant numbers of such questions have been published for use in Physics, Peer Instruction for Astronomy provides the first such compilation for Astronomy.

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