Astronomy for Educators
Daniel Barth
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Unit 1: Starting our Journey of Discovery -- Unit 2: Lunar Phases - A Simple Scientific Model -- Unit 3: Modeling Earth and Moon Together -- Unit 4: Measuring Time in the Sky -- Unit 5: Measuring and Mapping the Sky -- Unit 6: Exploring Gravity -- Unit 7: Proving the Heliocentric Model Correct -- Unit 8: Understanding Big Numbers - Size and Scale in our Solar System -- Unit 9: Orbital Dynamics - Planets and Moons in Motion -- Unit 10: War of the Worlds - How Impacts Build Planets -- Unit 11: The Four Seasons - Two Competing Models -- Unit 12: Safely Observing the Sun -- unit 13: Solar and Lunar Eclipses
Astronomy for Educators provides new and accomplished K-12 instructors with concepts and projects for low-cost, high-impact STEM classroom instruction that is built around the National Academies National Research Council's K-12 Framework for Science Education.