ASTR 1 Syllabus - University of Pennsylvania
REVISED
ASTR 1 Syllabus
Dr. Paul Langacker
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2003 semester
Syllabus suggestions for Bennett et al’s The Cosmic Perspective, 3/e.
In addition to the media assets listed below, the web site includes many self-assessment tools for each chapter, such as summaries, quizzes, electronic version of the end-of-chapter questions, flashcards and suggested web links.
Note: The movies and tutorials can be previewed on AstronomyPlace at
To create a new instructor’s account, please register with the unique access code in your Instructor’s Access Kit that was bundled with the professor copy of Bennett et al’s The Cosmic Perspective, 3/e or see Corinn Berman for an access code.
|Date |Bennett |Tutorials |Movies |Carl Sagan |Voyager: SkyGazer |Cosmic Lecture|
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|Sep 9 |Ch 2.1 – 2.4 Discovering the |Seasons |The Celestial |7-2 What are Stars?|File: Basis Folder |PowerPoint |
| |Universe for Yourself | |Sphere |7-3 Brooklyn | | |
|#2 | | | |Schoolroom |1) Analemma |Text’s Art |
| | | |Time and Seasons |7-4 Mythology of | | |
| | | | |Stars |2) Challenging the Time |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |1-9 Alexandrian | |and Animations|
| | | | |Library |3) Chart Clock |without text |
| | | | |1-10 Ages of | |pedagogy |
| | | | |Science |4) Rubber Horizon | |
| | | | |13-6 Hypatia | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | |5) Day and Night |images |
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| | | | | |6) Defining the Horizon | |
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| | | | | |7) Dragging the Sky | |
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| | | | | |8) Night Sky in Nairobi | |
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| | | | | |9) Chicago 10000AD | |
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| | | | | |10) North Pole 3 | |
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| | | | | |11) Precession of the Equinoxes | |
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| | | | | |12) Grid Lines | |
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| | | | | |13) Night Sky in Nairobi | |
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| | | | | |14) Rubber Horizon | |
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| | | | | |15) Startup | |
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| | | | | |16) Sunset in Winnipeg | |
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| | | | | |17) Three Cities | |
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| | | | | |18) Winter Milky Way | |
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| | | | | |19) Winter Sky | |
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| | | | | |File: Demo Folder | |
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| | | | | |1) Russian Midnight Sun | |
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| | | | | |2) Drunken Moon | |
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| | | | | |3) Earth Orbiting the Moon | |
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| | | | | |4) Orbit of the Moon 2 | |
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|Sept 11 |Ch 2.5 – 2.6: Discovering the |Phases of the | | |File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
| |Universe for Yourself |Moon | | | | |
|#3 | | | | |1) Christmas Eclipse 2000 |Text’s Art |
| | |Eclipse | | | | |
| | | | | |2) Eclipse 1991-2 Views |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | | | |and Animations|
| | | | | |3) Europe Eclipse 1999 |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
| | | | | |4) Lunar Eclipse | |
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| | | | | |5) Shadow over America |images |
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| | | | | |6) South Carolina Eclipse | |
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| | | | | |7) Totality | |
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| | | | | |8) Moon Along the Ecliptic | |
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| | | | | |9) Phase of the Moon | |
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| | | | | |10) Moon Orbit | |
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| | | | | |11) Planet’s Path | |
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| | | | | |File: Demo Folder | |
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| | | | | |1) African Eclipse June 2001 | |
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| | | | | |2) American Eclipse 2017-2 views | |
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| | | | | |3) South Carolina Eclipse-2017 | |
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| | | | | |4) Drunken Moon | |
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| | | | | |5) Earth Orbiting Moon | |
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| | | | | |6) Earth-Moon from Mars | |
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| | | | | |7) Orbit of the Moon 2 | |
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| | | | | |8) Mars in Retrograde | |
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| | | | | |Explore Menu | |
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| | | | | |1) Shadows on the Earth | |
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| | | | | |2) Phases of the Planets | |
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| | | | | |3) Solar System | |
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|Sept 16 |Ch 3: The Science of | | |7-2 What are Stars?|File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
| |Astronomy, | | |7-3 Brooklyn | | |
|#4 | | | |Schoolroom |1) Precession of the Equinoxes |Text’s Art |
| |S1: sections: 1, 5, and 6 | | |7-4 Mythology of | | |
| | | | |Stars |2) Ptolemy on Venus |Extra Internet|
| | | | |1-9 Alexandrian | |images |
| | | | |Library |3) Follow a Planet | |
| | | | |1-10 Ages of | | |
| | | | |Science |4) Phase of Mercury | |
| | | | |13-6 Hypatia | | |
| | | | |7-5 Ancient Greek |5) Planet Orrery | |
| | | | |Scientists | | |
| | | | |7-6 Science |6) Planet Panel | |
| | | | |Blossoms | | |
| | | | |7-7 Democritus |7) Planet Paths | |
| | | | |7-8Pythagoras | | |
| | | | |7-9 Plato and |File: Demo Folder | |
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| | | | | |1) Ptolemy on Mars | |
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|Sep 18 |Ch 5: Universal Motion |Orbits and |Orbits in the Solar|3-4 Laws of Nature |File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
| | |Kepler’s Laws |System |3-7 Ptolemy / | | |
|#5 | | | |Copernicus |1) Follow a Planet |Text’s Art |
| | | | |3-8 Kepler | | |
| | | | |3-9 Kepler and |2) Phase of Mercury |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |Tycho Brahe | |and Animations|
| | | | |3-10 Kepler’s Laws |3) Planet Orrery |without text |
| | | | |3-11 The Somnium | |pedagogy |
| | | | | |4) Planet Panel | |
| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | |5) Planet Paths |images |
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| | | | | |6) Pluto's Orbit | |
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| | | | | |7) Saturn | |
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| | | | | |8) Saturn's Phases | |
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| | | | | |9) Tracking Venus | |
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| | | | | |10) Ptolemy on Venus | |
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| | | | | |File: Demo Folder | |
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| | | | | |1) Earth and Venus | |
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| | | | | |2) Hale-Bopp Path | |
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| | | | | |3) Hyakutake at Perihelion | |
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| | | | | |4) Hyakutake nears Earth | |
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| | | | | |5) Pluto's Orbit | |
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| | | | | |6) Trailing Saturn | |
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| | | | | |7) Triple Conjunction of 7 BC | |
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| | | | | |8) Venus-Earth-Moon | |
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| | | | | |9) Ptolemy on Mars | |
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| | | | | |Explore Menu | |
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| | | | | |1) Solar System | |
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| | | | | |2) Paths of the Planets | |
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|Sept |Ch 6: Light: The Cosmic |Light and | |9-9 Star Stuff |File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
|23 |Messenger |Spectroscopy | |10-5 Doppler Effect| | |
| | | | | |1) Large Stars |Text’s Art |
|#6 |Ch 4 sections: 4.3, 4.4 |The Doppler | | | | |
| | |Effect | | |2) More Stars |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | | | |and Animations|
| | | | | |3) Star Color and Size |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
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| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | | |images |
|Sept. |Ch 7: Telescopes |The Doppler | |9-9 Star Stuff |File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
|25 | |Effect | |10-5 Doppler Effect| | |
| | | | |10-11 VLA |1) Large Stars |Text’s Art |
|#7 | |Light and | |6-2 Voyager, JPL | | |
| | |Spectroscopy | |7-10 Distance to |2) More Stars |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |Stars | |and Animations|
| | | | | |File: Spacecraft: |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
| | | | | |1) Galileo to Jupiter | |
| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | |2) Giotto encounters Halley |images |
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| | | | | |3) Missions to Jupiter | |
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| | | | | |4) Ulysses below Sun | |
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| | | | | |5) Voyager I and II | |
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|Sept. 30|Ch 8: Our Solar System: An |Formation of the|History of the |1-7 Spaceship Solar|File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
| |Intro and Overview |Solar System |Solar System |System | | |
|#8 | | | |4-7 Venus |1) Follow a Planet |Text’s Art |
| |Ch 9: Formation of the Solar |Extrasolar |Orbits in the Solar|4-8 Descent to | | |
| |System |Planetary |System |Venus |2) Phase of Mercury |Tutorial Tools|
| | |Detection | |4-9 Change | |and Animations|
| | | | |4-10 Death of |3) Planet Orrery |without text |
| | |Special: A Tour | |Worlds | |pedagogy |
| | |of the Solar | |4-11 Conclusion |4) Planet Panel | |
| | |System | |5-2 Martians | |Extra Internet|
| | | | |5-3 Lowell |5) Planet Paths |images |
| | | | |5-4 Edgar Rice | | |
| | | | |Burroughs |6) Pluto's Orbit | |
| | | | |5-5 Goddard | | |
| | | | |5-6 Inhabited |7) Saturn | |
| | | | |Planets | | |
| | | | |5-7 Mars |8) Saturn's Phases | |
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| | | | | |9) Tracking Venus | |
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| | | | | |10) Ptolemy on Venus | |
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| | | | | |File: Demo Folder | |
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| | | | | |1) Earth and Venus | |
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| | | | | |2) Hale-Bopp Path | |
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| | | | | |3) Hyakutake at Perihelion | |
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| | | | | |4) Hyakutake nears Earth | |
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| | | | | |5) Pluto's Orbit | |
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| | | | | |6) Trailing Saturn | |
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| | | | | |7) Triple Conjunction of 7 BC | |
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| | | | | |8) Venus-Earth-Moon | |
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| | | | | |9) Ptolemy on Mars | |
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| | | | | |Explore Menu | |
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| | | | | |1) Solar System | |
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| | | | | |2) Paths of the Planets | |
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|Oct 2 |Ch 10: Planetary Worlds: Earth|Shaping |History of the |1-7 Spaceship Solar|FILE: Demo Folder |PowerPoint |
| |and Other Terrestrial Planets |Planetary |Solar System |System | | |
|#9 | |Surfaces | |4-5 Collisions with|1) Earth & Venus |Text’s Art |
| | | |Orbits in the Solar|Earth | | |
| | |Special: A Tour |System |4-7 Venus |2) Venus-Earth-Moon |Tutorial Tools|
| | |of the Solar | |4-9 Descent to | |and Animations|
| | |System | |Venus |3) Ptolemy on Mars |without text |
| | | | |4-10 Death of | |pedagogy |
| | | | |Worlds |Explore Menu | |
| | | | |4-11 Conclusion | |Extra Internet|
| | | | |5-2 Maritans |1) Solar System |images |
| | | | |5-3 Lowell | | |
| | | | |5-4 Edgar Rice |2) Paths of the Planets | |
| | | | |Burroughs | | |
| | | | |5-5 Goddard | | |
| | | | |5-6 Inhabited | | |
| | | | |Planets | | |
| | | | |5-7 Mars | | |
|Oct 7 |Ch 11: Planetary Atmospheres:|Surface | |1-7 Spaceship Solar|FILE: Demo Folder |PowerPoint |
| |Earth & Other Terrestrial |Temperature of | |System | | |
|#10 |Worlds |Terrestrial | |4-5 Collisions with|1) Earth & Venus |Text’s Art |
| | |Planets | |Earth | | |
| | | | |4-7 Venus |2) Venus-Earth-Moon |Tutorial Tools|
| | |Special: A Tour | |4-9 Descent to | |and Animations|
| | |of the Solar | |Venus |3) Ptolemy on Mars |without text |
| | |System | |4-10 Death of | |pedagogy |
| | | | |Worlds |Explore Menu | |
| | | | |4-11 Conclusion | |Extra Internet|
| | | | |5-2 Maritans |1) Solar System |images |
| | | | |5-3 Lowell | | |
| | | | |5-4 Edgar Rice |2) Paths of the Planets | |
| | | | |Burroughs | | |
| | | | |5-5 Goddard | | |
| | | | |5-6 Inhabited | | |
| | | | |Planets | | |
| | | | |5-7 Mars | | |
|Oct 9 |Ch 12: Jovian Planet Systems |Special: A Tour |History of the |6-7 Traveler’s |File: Spacecraft: |PowerPoint |
| | |of the Solar |Solar System |Tales | | |
|#11 | |System | |6-8 Jovian System |1) Galileo to Jupiter |Text’s Art |
| | | |Orbits in the Solar|6-9 Europa and Io | | |
| | | |System |6-10 Voyager Ships’|2) Giotto encounters Halley |Extra Internet|
| | | | |Log | |images |
| | | | | |3) Missions to Jupiter | |
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| | | | | |File: Basic Folder | |
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| | | | | |1) Tracking Jupiter & Io | |
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| | | | | |2 Saturn’s Phases | |
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| | | | | |3) Saturn | |
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| | | | | |File: Demo Folder | |
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| | | | | |1) Backside of Jupiter | |
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| | | | | |2) Locked on Dione | |
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| | | | | |3) Three Moons on Jupiter | |
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| | | | | |4) Trailing Saturn | |
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| | | | | |Explore Menu: | |
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| | | | | |1) Paths of the Planets | |
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| | | | | |2) The Solar System | |
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| | | | | |3) Solar Neighborhood | |
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|Oct 14 |NO CLASS | | | | | |
|Oct 21 |Ch 15: Our Star |Special: A Tour |The Sun |9-6 Nuclear Forces |File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
| | |of the Solar | |9-7 The Stars and | | |
|#13 |Ch 6: Light REVIEW |System | |Our Sun |1) Large Stars |Text’s Art |
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| | | | | |2) More Stars |Extra Internet|
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| | | | | |3) Star Color and Size | |
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|Oct 23 |Ch 16: Stars |Measuring Cosmic|Lives of Stars |9-6 Nuclear Forces |FILE: BASIC FOLDER |PowerPoint |
| | |Distances | |9-7 The Stars and | | |
|#14 | | | |Our Sun |1) Large Stars |Text’s Art |
| | |The H-R Diagram | |9-9 Star Stuff | | |
| | | | |10-5 Doppler Effect|2) More Stars |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |7-10 Distance to | |and Animations|
| | | | |Stars |3) Star Color and Size |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
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| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | | |images |
|Oct 28 |Ch 16: Stars Continued |The H-R Diagram |Lives of Stars |9-6 Nuclear Forces |FILE: BASIC FOLDER |PowerPoint |
| | | | |9-7 The Stars and | | |
|#15 | | | |Our Sun |1) Large Stars |Text’s Art |
| | | | |9-9 Star Stuff | | |
| | | | |10-5 Doppler Effect|2) More Stars |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |7-10 Distance to | |and Animations|
| | | | |Stars |3) Star Color and Size |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
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| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
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|Oct 30 |Ch 17: Star Stuff |The H-R Diagram |Lives of Stars | |File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
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|#16 | |Stellar |Double Stars | |1) Large Stars |Text’s Art |
| | |Evolution | | | | |
| | | | | |2) More Stars |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | | | |and Animations|
| | | | | |3) Star Color and Size |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
| | | | | |4) Tracking Altair | |
| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | |5) Tracking Proxima Centauri |images |
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| | | | | |File: Demo Folder | |
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| | | | | |1) Barnard's Star | |
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| | | | | |2) Circling the Hyades | |
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| | | | | |3) Flying around Pleiades | |
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| | | | | |4) The Tail of Scorpios | |
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| | | | | |5) Crab from Finland | |
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|Nov 4 |Ch 18: The Bizarre Stellar |Stellar |Lives of Stars |9-8 Death of Stars | |PowerPoint |
| |Graveyard |Evolution | |9-9 Star Stuff | | |
|#17 | | | |9-10 Gravity in | |Text’s Art |
| |Ch S3: sections 1, 4 and 5 |Black Holes | |Wonderland | | |
| | | | |9-11 Children of | |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |the Stars | |and Animations|
| | | | | | |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
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| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | | |images |
|Nov 6 |Ch 18: Continued |Stellar |Lives of Stars |9-8 Death of Stars | |PowerPoint |
| | |Evolution | |9-9 Star Stuff | | |
|#18 | | | |9-10 Gravity in | |Text’s Art |
| | |Black Holes | |Wonderland | | |
| | | | |9-11 Children of | |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |the Stars | |and Animations|
| | | | | | |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
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| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | | |images |
|Nov 11 |Ch 19: Our Galaxy |REVIEW Orbits |The Milky Way |10-2 Big Bang |File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
| | |and Kepler’s |Galaxy |10-3 Galaxies | | |
|#19 | |Laws | |10-4 Astro-nomical |1) Milky Way |Text’s Art |
| | | | |Anomalies | | |
| | | | | |2) Wide Field Milky Way |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | | | |and Animations|
| | | | | |3) Winter Milky Way |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
| | | | | |4) Lagoon Nebulae | |
| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | |Explore Menu |images |
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| | | | | |1) Solar Neighborhood | |
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|Nov 13 |Ch 20: A Universe of Galaxies |Measuring Cosmic|From the Big Bang |7-10 Distance to |File: Basic Folder |PowerPoint |
| | |Distances |to Galaxies |Stars | | |
|#20 | | | |10-2 Big Bang |1) Galaxies in Coma |Text’s Art |
| | |Hubble’s Law | |10-3 Galaxies | | |
| | | | |10-4 Astro-nomical |2) Lagoon Nebulae |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |Anomalies | |and Animations|
| | | | |10-5 Doppler Effect| |without text |
| | | | |10-6 Humeson | |pedagogy |
| | | | |10-7 Dimensions | | |
| | | | |10-8 The Universe | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | | |images |
|Nov 18 |Ch 21: Galaxy Evolution | |From the Big Bang | | |PowerPoint |
| | | |to Galaxies | | | |
|#21 | | | | | |Text’s Art |
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| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | | |images |
|Nov 20 |Ch 22: Dark Matter and the |Detecting Dark | |10-7 Dimensions | |PowerPoint |
| |Fate of the Universe |Matter in a | |10-8 The Universe | | |
|#22 | |Spiral Galaxy | | | |Text’s Art |
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| | |Fate of the | | | |Tutorial Tools|
| | |Universe | | | |and Animations|
| | | | | | |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
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| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
| | | | | | |images |
|Nov 23 |Ch 23: The Beginning of Time |Hubble’s Law |From the Big Bang | | |PowerPoint |
| | | |to Galaxies | | | |
|#23 | | | | | |Text’s Art |
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| | | | | | |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | | | |and Animations|
| | | | | | |without text |
| | | | | | |pedagogy |
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| | | | | | |Extra Internet|
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|Nov 27 |THANKSGIVING | | | | | |
|Dec 4 |Ch 24: Life in the Universe |REVIEW: |Search for |8-6 Interstellar | |PowerPoint |
| | |Detecting |Extra-terrestrial |Travel | | |
|#25 | |Extrasolar |Life |12-2 Close | |Text’s Art |
| | |Planets | |Encounters | | |
| | | | |12-3 Refutations | |Tutorial Tools|
| | | | |12-4 UFOs | |and Animations|
| | | | |12-8 SETI | |without text |
| | | | |12-9 Arecibo | |pedagogy |
| | | | |12-10 Drake | | |
| | | | |Equation | |Extra Internet|
| | | | |12-11 Encyclopedia | |images |
| | | | |Galactica | | |
| | | | |13-7 Big Bang and | | |
| | | | |the Stuff of Life | | |
| | | | |13-8 Evolution of | | |
| | | | |Life | | |
| | | | |13-10 What Humans | | |
| | | | |Have Done | | |
| | | | |13-11 We Speak for | | |
| | | | |Earth | | |
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