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Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy, 2/E
Edward E. Prather, University of Arizona
Tim P. Slater, University of Arizona
Jeff Adams, Montana State University
Gina Brissenden
CAPER, Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research Team

ISBN-10: 0132392267
ISBN-13: 9780132392266

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 144 pp
Published: 08/01/2007

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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.

  • 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.
  • 38 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
    • Provides instructors 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.

  • Nine new activities ensure the most common topics of introductory astronomy are covered.
  • Lecture-Tutorials now total 38 and compliment the instructor’s curriculum with activities on the Doppler Shift, Extrasolar Planets, Kepler’s 2nd Law, and Seasons.
  • All the activities have been improved with special attention in terms of the wording of questions and the scenarios presented.
  • Significantly enhanced diagrams, graphs, and artwork help students make hard-to-visualize and perceptually complex ideas more approachable and easier to comprehend. 

The Night Sky

1. Position

2. Motion

3. Seasonal Stars

4. Solar vs. Sidereal Day

5. Ecliptic

6. Star Charts

 

Fundamentals of Astronomy

7. Kepler’s 2nd Law

8. Kepler’s 3rd Law

9. Newton’s Laws and Gravity

10. Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes of Stars

11. The Parsec

12. Parallax and Distance

13. Spectroscopic Parallax

 

Nature of Light in Astronomy

14. The Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum of Light

15. Telescopes and Earth’s Atmosphere

16. Luminosity, Temperature and Size

17. Blackbody Radiation

18. Types of Spectra

19. Light and Atoms

20. Analyzing Spectra

21. Doppler Shift

 

Our Solar System

22. The Cause of Moon Phases

23. Predicting Moon Phases

24. Path of Sun

25. Seasons

26. Observing Retrograde Motion

27. Earth’s Changing Surface

28. Temperature and Formation of Our Solar System

29. Sun Size

 

Stars Galaxies and Beyond

30. H-R Diagram

31. Star Formation and Lifetimes

32. Binary Stars

33. The Motion of Extrasolar Planets

34. Stellar Evolution

35. Milky Way Scales

36. Galaxy Classification

37. Looking at Distant Objects

38. Expansion of the Universe

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