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Main Authors: Greenstone, Sid, Smith, Murray
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1981
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED219256
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author Greenstone, Sid
Smith, Murray
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Smith, Murray
Greenstone, Sid
Smith, Murray
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contents Astronomy. Greenstone, Sid Smith, Murray Astronomy Foreign Countries Resource Materials Science Activities Science Curriculum Science Education Science Instruction Secondary Education Secondary School Science Teaching Guides Units of Study Selected materials needed to teach an astronomy unit as well as suggested procedures, activities, ideas, and astronomy fact sheets published by the Manitoba Planetarium are provided. Subjects of the fact sheets include: publications and classroom picture sets available from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and facts and statistics about the sun, moon, inner planets, outer planets, satellites of the solar system, planetary conjunction of 1981, meteors and meteor showers, comets, the Milky Way, quasars and pulsars, unidentified flying objects (UFO's), and activities of the Manitoba Planetarium. Instructions are provided for making constellation slides and constellation cans, with suggested student activities. Charts of constellations which may be duplicated or used to prepare overhead transparencies are also provided. Additional activities focus on earth rotation/revolution, planets and zodiac, cosmic calendar, survival on the moon, scale diagrams of the solar system, constellation positions, ellipses, planetary orbits, color/temperature relationship of stars, distance measuring devices, and angle measurements. Astronomy books and audio-visual materials available from the Manitoba Education Library and 16-mm films available from the School Film Services are included. (JN)
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spellingShingle Astronomy.
Greenstone, Sid
Smith, Murray
Astronomy
Foreign Countries
Resource Materials
Science Activities
Science Curriculum
Science Education
Science Instruction
Secondary Education
Secondary School Science
Teaching Guides
Units of Study
Astronomy. Greenstone, Sid Smith, Murray Astronomy Foreign Countries Resource Materials Science Activities Science Curriculum Science Education Science Instruction Secondary Education Secondary School Science Teaching Guides Units of Study Selected materials needed to teach an astronomy unit as well as suggested procedures, activities, ideas, and astronomy fact sheets published by the Manitoba Planetarium are provided. Subjects of the fact sheets include: publications and classroom picture sets available from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and facts and statistics about the sun, moon, inner planets, outer planets, satellites of the solar system, planetary conjunction of 1981, meteors and meteor showers, comets, the Milky Way, quasars and pulsars, unidentified flying objects (UFO's), and activities of the Manitoba Planetarium. Instructions are provided for making constellation slides and constellation cans, with suggested student activities. Charts of constellations which may be duplicated or used to prepare overhead transparencies are also provided. Additional activities focus on earth rotation/revolution, planets and zodiac, cosmic calendar, survival on the moon, scale diagrams of the solar system, constellation positions, ellipses, planetary orbits, color/temperature relationship of stars, distance measuring devices, and angle measurements. Astronomy books and audio-visual materials available from the Manitoba Education Library and 16-mm films available from the School Film Services are included. (JN)
title Astronomy.
topic Astronomy
Foreign Countries
Resource Materials
Science Activities
Science Curriculum
Science Education
Science Instruction
Secondary Education
Secondary School Science
Teaching Guides
Units of Study
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED219256