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This is Penn State's course management system, and you can use this link as long as your account is active to login to ASTRO 120 our Big Bang Universe on-line course for undergraduate non-science majors. When your computer account access lapses, if you want to retain access to the course, you can request a "Friends of Penn State" computer account (https://fps.psu.edu), email us, and we can add you back into the course using this FPS account

This is similar to the Raisin-Bread Analogy

Astronomy labs and teaching resources developed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Includes simulations, flash animations, graphics, in-class questions and ranking tasks.

This is the activity we did on Monday afternoon

I found this pdf online, though I doubt it should have been posted. It may help you to incorporate the new material into your class quickly.

~15 minute long demo that lets you play parts of the video game version of our on-line course for Astro 001 at Penn State

This is how I found the distance to the next closest star (Alpha Centauri) if the Sun were a basketball. Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space."

Adopted by PSU for our Astro 11 lab course for non-science majors. Inquiry-based labs that build towards getting students to write good research questions, and use evidence to support their claims.

Great, comprehensive website where an astronomer has created a new way to try to understand the cosmic microwave background