CLC Astronomy Class Page

Syllabus Information

The class syllabus is available at: http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/johnf/syllabus.html

Supplies

Currently, the only supplies are two books:

The Stars: A new way to see them, by Hans Augusto (H.A.) Rey - ISBN: 0395248302 - $10

Blind Watchers of the Sky by Rocky Kolb - ISBN: 020115496X - $14

Both of these books can be found on amazon.com, but there are many other places to get them. In particular, The Stars has been through countless printings, and can probably be found in any good used bookstore.

The Stars - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395248302/qid=998427652/sr=1-20/ref=sc_b_20/002-6096494-0100846

Blind Watchers of the Sky - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020115496X/qid=998427772/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/002-6096494-0100846

Class Resources

Class1

Class 1 Outside Activities

Class 2

Phases of the moon - http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/java/MoonPhase.html

Class 3

Web site about Tycho Brahe - http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/tycho_brahe.html

Class 4

An extremely good site about Celestial Navigation - http://www.celestialnavigation.net/

Announcement! - We will be attending the CWRU star party on October 12 (October 13th is the cloud date)

Information is available at: http://astrwww.cwru.edu/announcements/cwrupubnite.html

Class 5

Web sites about Johannes Kepler - http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/johannes.html

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/kepler.html

Class 6

Some articles about the reason for the seasons -

http://www.msnbc.com/news/251727.asp

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/seasons.html -

http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/cybercoverage/thaller/p-122800thallerseasons.html

Class 7

Web site about Galileo - http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Bio/index.html

Astronomy Web Links for Homeschoolers

Astronomy Picture of the Day - A different cool astronomy picture every day, with an explanation - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

The Constellations - A nice web page just about the constellations - http://www.astro.wisc.edu/%7Edolan/constellations

CONCAM - see what the sky really looks like! - This web page records the entire sky each night at Kitt Peak National Observatory. You can even run the movie of the images, and show that yes, stars do rise and set - http://concam.net/kp/

Hubble Space Telescope. Need I say more? http://hubblesite.org/

Bad Astronomy - Phil Plaitt's web page points out common astronomy misconceptions in news and in popular movies. Bad Astronomy is good! - http://www.badastronomy.com/

Astronomy Society of the Pacific - One of the oldest, and most dedicated organizations in astronomy education. They have many, many astronomy teaching resources, both free and items for purchase that are well worth having. http://www.aspsky.org/education.html  

 

Last Modified: September 4 2001 Web Page by John Feldmeier johnf@eor.astr.cwru.edu Department of Astronomy Case Western Reserve University