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News and Articles on
Resources for Teaching Astronomy
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Online Articles
- Feb 25, 2004. Building Your Own Planetarium, by Jeff Adkins.
As part of our ongoing efforts to build a small classroom planetarium
at our school, we have opted not to go with a package deal
from a single vendor and instead assemble components from different
vendors. Along the way we've discovered some interesting gear
that might be of interest to some other developers of immersive
projection systems for flight simulators, gamers, photographers,
and others, so I thought we'd share the current state of our
project as a sort of preview, and I'll follow up later this
year with a report on the actual installation when it is up
and running.
http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/04/0225.html
Articles in Magazines
Books
- Resources for Exploring the Solar System (Andrew Fraknoi--ASP) http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/solarsys.html
Books for Ages 4-8
- Coats, Laura Jane. Marcella and the moon 32 pp, color illus.
New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1986.
- Hopkinson, Deborah, and Deborah Lanino, Maria's Comet, 32 pages, Athenium Books, New York, 1999
- LaFontaine, Bruce, Exploring the Solar System, 48 pp, Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 1998
- Krupp, Edwin C. and Robin Rector, The Big Dipper and You, 48 pp, Mulberry Books, NY, 1999
- Herbert, Aled, The Ultimate Moon Landing Sticker Book, 12 pp, DK Publishing, NY 1999
- Graham, Ian, The Best Book of the Moon, 45 pp, Kingfisher, NY, 1999
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Books for Ages 9-12
- Ride, Sally, and Tam O'Shaughnessy, The Mystery of Mars, 48 pp, Crown Publishing, NY, 1999
- Couper, Heather, and Nigel Henbest, Black Holes, 45 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1996
- Couper, Heather, and Nigel Henbest, Big Bang: The Story of the Universe, 45 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1996
- Couper, Heather, and Nigel Henbest, Is Anybody Out There?, 45 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1996
- Furniss, Tim, Spinning Through Space Series, [The Earth; The Moon; The Solar System; The Sun], Raintree Steck-Faughn Publishers, Austin TX, 2001.
- Lippencott, Kristen, Eyewitness Science: Astronomy, 64 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1999
- Ford, Harry, The Young Astronomer, 37 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1998
- Redfern, Martin, The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Space, 96 pp, Kingfisher Books, NY, 1998
- Fradin, Dennis Brindell, The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds, 160 pp, Margaret K. McElderry Books, NY, 1997
- Fradin, Dennis Brindell, Is There Life on Mars?, 144 pp, Margaret K. McElderry Books, NY, 1999
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Books for Teens and Older
- Dickenson, Terence, Exploring the Night Sky: The
Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners, 72 pp, Firefly
Books, Bufallo, NY, 1997
- Burnham, Robert, Night Sky: An Explore your World
Handbook, 192 pp, Discovery Books, NY, 1999.
- Mitton, Simon and Jacqueline, The Young Oxford Book
of Astronomy, 160 pp, Oxford University Press, NY,
1998
- Spence, Pam, The Universe Revealed, 45 pp,
Cambridge University Press, NY, 1998
- Stott, Carole, New Astronomer, 144 pp, DK
Publishing, NY, 1999
- Couper, Heather, and Nigel Henbest, Space Encyclopedia,
304 pp, DK Publishing, NY, 1999
- Moche, Dinah L., Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide,
4th Edition, 347 pp, John Wiley and Sons, NY, 1999
National Astronomy Education Projects: A Catalog (ASP)
http://www.aspsky.org/education/naep.html
Periodicals
Websites
- [ASP] A Selected List of Web Sites for Instructors of Introductory
Astronomy Courses http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/educsites.html
-- by Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & ASP)
- Resource
Guide: Books, Articles, and Websites on the Astronomy of Many
Cultures from Around the World, by Andrew Fraknoi (Astronomical
Society of the Pacific and Foothill College) - annotated listing
of over 90 books, articles,
and websites that deal with the astronomy of diverse cultures
around the world. The readings cover the astronomical work
and ideas of South and Central America, Hawaii and Polynesia,
Africa, India, and Islamic countries. Also included are the
astronomical ideas of the Native Americans of North America,
issues relating to people of color in the U.S., plus a small
set of readings about Asian and ancient European cultures.
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