TCA 05

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TCA issue #5, Fall 2010 (PDF)

Description

Vol 2, Number 1

  • Create Your Own Cosmos, The Way of the Maasai
  • Crank Astronomy as a Teaching Tool – The Electric Sun
  • Solar System Distance Scales, A Ladder Made of Triangles
  • Galileo Measured a Mountain and So Can You!
  • Illuminating Science Through Darkness – 1 – Shadow Cones
  • big>Illuminating Science Through Darkness – 2 – In Earth’s Shadow
  • Illuminating Science Through Darkness – 3 – Caught! Shadow Revealed, Moon’s Size and Distance Found
    • Teacher’s Challenge — This Issue’s Most Puzzling Terms?
    • Astronomy Planning Calendar – Fall
    • The RAP Sheet – Research Abstracts for Practitioners –
      • Big Ideas: A Review of Astronomy Education Research, 1974-2008
      • Using Kinesthetic Activities to Teach Ptolemaic and Copernican Retrograde Motion
      • Astronomical Concepts and Events Awareness in Young Children
    • Photons Focused On:  — A Kinesthestic Astronomy Chorale
    • Astronomical Teachniques – The Actual Places of the Zodiac Constellations
    • My Views of the Classroom Universe (Editor’s Column) – Fear = Ignorance

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