Announcement
Remember: Monday in the Planetarium, Wednesday back in the classroom for Exam #1!
INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY
Welcome to the Winter 2018 Semester at Mt. SAC! Watch here for new information and updates.
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Be sure to check out some of the Astronomical links, found in the menu at left. Some of these pages |
- Here is the Winter 2018 ASTR 5 Syllabus
- Take a look at this STUDY GUIDE!
- Follow this link to the official Student Learning Objectives for the course [these are also on your syllabus] - another excellent study tool! Follow links/menus to ASTR 5...
- Extra Credit Lectures - Come (or Go) and listen to a talk or Planetarium show - and then earn extra points!! This page may be updated.
- Here's the Field Trip Guide for the Griffith Observatory. It's a Word doc, so you can EXPAND it to type up your responses!
- GUIDELINES and options for Group Projects will also soon become active...Here are the Rubrics that I showed in class: presentations and intragroup evaluation
- Here is the Observation Project Guidelines for Spring 2017
- Moon Project Handouts : ObsSheet - ObsGadget
Google Earth can give you your lat/lon coordinates! - See what's new at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory!
- Visit the Lunar Photo of the Day!
- To help you envision the powers of 10 and the enormous range of scales that need to be addressed in Astronomy, see this website (Molecular Expressions - requires java, won't work on iPads or Macs): http://tinyurl.com/hck
- If your computer won't handle java applets, you can see a movie version, Powers of Ten, by clicking here
- And since I LOVE Morgan Freeman's voice, here he narrates the same concept of Powers of Ten for Cosmic Voyage. BEWARE the closed captioning!! (Thanks, Tim!)
- OR you can visit the website that has still pictures from that movie here! This site has a tool for manipulation...
- Check out this site - every day! Astronomy Picture of the Day
- They have also constructed an entire online course in Astronomy!
- AND they have also constructed an entire online course in Physics (as pertinent to Astronomy)!
- Other important late-breaking news about the solar system and beyond can be found at the JPL website
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This page was originally posted on 16 September 2015
by Mark Boryta
who would greatly appreciate comments...
| Last Updated: 6/3/19 |
