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Dear Fellow Science Teachers
I believe we need to work together as much as possible as we are often given too little support. Below are online materials supporting workshops I have presented. I hope they are useful and any comments or suggestions would be most welcome.


Running a School Based Astronomy Club

Aim: To assist the astronomical community to support school based astronomy activities and to encourage school teachers to seek assistance in bringing astronomy activities to their students.

Documents:     Running a School Astronomy Club Jeff Stanger 2007.pdf  This article was rewritten and published in the June 2010 edition of Teaching Science

School-Based Extracurricular Astronomy Appendix.html This is the html online appendix to the article in the June 2010 edition of Teaching Science

School-Based Extracurricular Astronomy Appendix.pdf This is the pdf online appendix to the article in the June 2010 edition of Teaching Science

SGHS PET Bottle Rocket Workshop.pdf

SGHS Egg Drop Challenge.pdf

Related Resources: http://www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/Co-curricular/Astronomy/index.html


School Based Activities for the International Year of Astronomy 2009

Aim: To give teachers ideas for school based activities both within and outside the curriculum for the international year of astronomy 2009.

Curriculum Materials:

See http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2008033 for an example. An example teaching resources for the demonstrations in this article are Astronomers Difficulties A.doc and Astronomers Difficulties B.doc.

A great CD spectroscope template can be found at www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/pdf/du_u03_spectroscope.pdf

Expanding universe overhead transparency demonstration document expanding universe OHT demo.doc

Using Tzec Maun Observatory in Stage 4 and 5 Astronomy http://www.jeffstanger.net/Science Teaching/usingtzecmaunobservatory.html and

An assignment using Tzec Maun Observatory in science classes imaging the night sky assignment.pdf and imaging the night sky assignment.pptx

Extracurricular Materials: See the section on running an astronomy club above for details.

Web links to resources: Ideas for School Based Activities for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Links.pdf   Links from Sydney Observatory Talk in Feb 2009

 


Interactive and Collaborative Teaching Methods in the Science Classroom

Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs)

Aim: To find a very effective way to teach motion and Newton's Laws.

Documents: SGHSilds.htm Download and save this page in the folder where you will put the video files when you download them. This page links to the demonstration videos available for download from the site http://csmt.research.tufts.edu/ildvideos/ and provides extra explanation for each where necessary.

Related Resources: The site to download the video files is http://csmt.research.tufts.edu/ildvideos/ and the worksheets and documents or online access to videos are available at http://ild.tccs.tufts.edu/


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