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31. Earth and Beyond Activity
Discovery Education Educator Login Passcode Login Products School Resources Educator Network Store About Us _ _ _ 9-12 > Astronomy/Space Science _ _ Page: Earth and Beyond 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 _ Earth and Beyond 6-8, 9-12 Grade Level Puzzlemaker Clip Art Gallery Subject Area space Lesson Plan science Library Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Curriculum Focus _ Brain Boosters astronomy, earth science, technology, environmental st...

32. Adventures in Time and Place Grade 6, Chapter 11: Make a Maya Math Problem
...lace Web-Linked Lesson Plans Adventures in Time and Place Grade 6 book Make a Maya Math Problem Connection to Adventures in Time and Place Grade 6 Unit 3: New Ideas and New Empires Chapter 11: Ancient America Lesson 3: Maya Civilization Web Link Description Maya Mathematics, accessible fromThe Maya Astronomy Page, offers an explanation of the Maya numerical system. The contents of this Web site are based on a lecture by Dawn Jenkins given to the Cuyahoga Astronomical Association. Michiel Berger contributed information and graphics. Student Objectives to make up a math problem using Maya notation to writ...

33. EDTECH: Focus On K-12 - High-School Science Lesson Plan High-School Science Lesson Plan
...views One-To-One Measurement Case Studies Subscriptions Print E-mail Digg! Del.icio.us! Newsvine! Surfing the Solar System This Internet-based workshop takes students around the solar system, giving them an informed understanding of the planets. Rosemarie Ganser and Leonard Bellinger TECHNOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY take off at Fontbonne Hall Academy High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., with this Internet-focused science lesson. Students not only learn about the solar system as a whole, but are better able to visualize the planets through close-up images of different features. Lesson description: This workshop famili...

34. Andromeda's Scale: Summary
Andromeda's Scale An activity about angular, (apparent) size and magnification in astronomy False color image of Andromeda in the optical Student Worksheet Teacher's Page Summary: Students do a classroom activity of measuring the angular size of something from several distances. On the Internet, they obtain and examine images with various magnification factors and estimate the angular size...

35. Journey North: Reasons for Seasons--Exploring the Astronomy of Spring
Reasons for Seasons Exploring the Astronomy of Spring Activity 4: Heating Up Direct and Indirect Sunlight Back to Reasons for Seasons Overview >> Overview: By conducting simulations, students explore the effects of direct and indirect sunlight on heating of the Earth. Time Part 1: 1 period; Part Laying the Groundwork 2: 1 period If you conduc...

36. Aerospace and Astronomy
Aerospace and Astronomy Lesson Plans ~ Thematic Units ~ Online Activities ~ WebQuests ~ Lesson Plans Aerospace Experiments - really fun activities for the students! Amazing Space is a set of web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use Astronomy in a Puddle-Teach at what point the sun is in the sky by using a...

37. Astronomy Jeopardy Review
Information Institute of Syracuse _ Printer friendly text Search Lessons Write a Lesson Plan Guide Selection Criteria Lesson Plan :AELP-AST0012 Copyright Statement Astronomy Jeopardy Review An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan Author: Shirley Elliott, Montana Endorced by: These lesson plans are the result of the work of the teachers who have attended the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshop. CEC is a consortium of teacher from 14 western states dedicated to i...

38. Interview with Ms. Sol
...Sol By Robert J. Nemiroff Copyright © 1987 by Robert J. Nemiroff. Used with permission. ________ Mornings just wouldn't be the same without him. He really does light up our life. But did we ever thank him, even once? No, never. We should consider ourselves lucky that he doesn't get overheated. Astronomy Magazine thus decided to thank that wonderful star of ours, Sol, for all those billions of years of free sunlight; tax free sunlight. We also thanked him for that really great gravitational field of his that keeps us from cavorting around the galaxy. To our surprise he granted us an exclusive interv...

39. Journey North: Reasons for Seasons--Exploring the Astronomy of Spring
Reasons for Seasons Exploring the Astronomy of Spring ? Mini-Unit? Watching the wave of spring sweep northward is at the heart of Journey North. Students see seasonal changes all around them, yet these changes are all driven by one underlying factor: changes in available sunlight. This includes: the amount of available sunlight (called daylen...

40. X-ray Spectroscopy and the Chemistry of Supernova Remnants
...d activities and the lesson plan as a whole. The background sections include short exercises or thought questions developed to help the student reach a better understanding of the material presented. Each section also has activies developed by real teachers - designed to bring important concepts in astronomy right into the classroom. Each activity is correlated to national science and math standards for grades 9 - 12. These activities show how interelated chemistry, physics, and astronomy really are. Outline of Unit Part I: How and Where are Elements Created? Background: The Life Cycles of Stars: How Su...