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Folder with PDF copies of Niel's Powerpoints and Notes - 2 views

psu.box.com/...ke9iw4wv7d2choua45k2 astronomy cosmology
shared by Christopher Palma on 29 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Christopher Palma on 29 Jul 14
     
    If you want the original Powerpoint files, let us know!
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Astro Better's compilation of presentation skills & poster making skills links meant fo... - 2 views

www.astrobetter.com/...tiki-index.php
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  • Christopher Palma on 25 Jul 14
     
    Includes a link to a blog post by a PSU astronomer about his students' success with making award winning posters
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Mark Whittle: Big Bang Acoustics - 0 views

www.astro.virginia.edu/...index_frames.html astronomy cosmology online interactive CMB
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  • Christopher Palma on 24 Jul 14
     
    Great, comprehensive website where an astronomer has created a new way to try to understand the cosmic microwave background
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Blog post by author of BFS lab manual about the structure of these labs - 0 views

astronomyfacultylounge.wordpress.com/...gaging-in-astronomical-inquiry astronomy online CER pedagogy
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  • Christopher Palma on 24 Jul 14
     
    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.
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THINK TANK; What Did Poe Know About Cosmology? Nothing. But He Was Right. - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...-nothing-but-he-was-right.html astronomy cosmology
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  • Christopher Palma on 23 Jul 14
     
    NYT Archives article about Poe's work "Eureka" that includes his discussion of Olbers' Paradox
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Gamma-Ray Burst Caused Mass Extinction? - 0 views

news.nationalgeographic.com/...0403-gamma-ray-extinction.html astrobiology
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  • Christopher Palma on 23 Jul 14
     
    Article in National Geographic that updates some more recent analysis of the likelihood that a gamma-ray burst caused the late Ordovician extinction.
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[astro-ph/0309415] Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction? - 0 views

arxiv.org/0309415 astrobiology
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  • Christopher Palma on 23 Jul 14
     
    Link to freely available version of Mellott's article in the professional literature
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Link to Demo version of Astro 001 video game (Mac version) - 0 views

www.personal.psu.edu/...AstroFestDemoMac.zip astronomy online interactive
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  • Christopher Palma on 23 Jul 14
     
    ~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
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Copy of Milky Way CER activity instructions - 2 views

psu.box.com/...te65cr1n8w86c1d74sr3 astronomy CER K-12 MilkyWay
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  • Christopher Palma on 22 Jul 14
     
    Word format
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UNL Astronomy Education - 0 views

astro.unl.edu astronomy online interactive
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  • Christopher Palma on 22 Jul 14
     
    Astronomy labs and teaching resources developed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Includes simulations, flash animations, graphics, in-class questions and ranking tasks.
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ANGEL Homepage - 0 views

cms.psu.edu astronomy cosmology online
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  • Christopher Palma on 22 Jul 14
     
    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
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Hubble Deep Field Amazing Space Activity (on-line version) - 2 views

amazing-space.stsci.edu/...hdf astronomy online K-12 galaxies
shared by Christopher Palma on 21 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Christopher Palma on 21 Jul 14
     
    This is the activity we did on Monday afternoon
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Short book about Claims, Evidence, Reasoning - 1 views

www.amazon.com/...0137043457 pedagogy K-12 CER
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  • Christopher Palma on 21 Jul 14
     
    Aimed at grades 5 - 8, and there is a K-5 version of the book, too. There are many teachers implementing this at the HS level, as well.
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From James Kaler's comprehensive website on stars -- table of data on the brightest 170... - 0 views

stars.astro.illinois.edu/...bright.html astronomy stars HRdiagram
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  • Christopher Palma on 21 Jul 14
     
    There is much more here than this table, feel free to explore!
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Database of parameters for Milky Way Open Clusters - 1 views

www.astro.iag.usp.br/ocdb astronomy authenticdata
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  • Christopher Palma on 21 Jul 14
     
    Created by professional astronomers for professional astronomers, but is a source of authentic data for in-class investigations -- recall that the column headings are in the separate README file.
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Database of parameters for Milky Way Globular Clusters - 7 views

www.physics.mcmaster.ca/...mwgc.dat astronomy authenticdata
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  • Christopher Palma on 21 Jul 14
     
    Created by professional astronomers for professional astronomers, but is a source of authentic data for in-class investigations
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