A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy (Student's Guides)

The study of astronomy offers an unlimited opportunity for us to gain a deeper understanding of our planet, the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy and the known Universe. Using the plain-language approach that has proven highly popular in Fleisch's other Student's Guides, this book is ideal for non-science majors taking introductory astronomy courses. The authors address topics that students find most troublesome, on subjects ranging from stars and light to gravity and black holes. Dozens of fully worked examples and over 150 exercises and homework problems help readers get to grips with the concepts in each chapter. An accompanying website features a host of supporting materials, including interactive solutions for every exercise and problem in the text and a series of video podcasts in which the authors explain the important concepts of every section of the book.

Science & Math

Fleisch, Daniel

Kregenow, Julia

Astronomy & Space Science

Cambridge University Press

Modern science teaching challenges students to engage in scientific research and participate in scientific discourse – in short, to do science themselves rather than just learn about it. Recent learning sciences research results demonstrate that in order for novice science students to effectively design, conduct, report, and defend science observations and experiments, learners must be purposefully supported in each step of the scientific process before they are able to successfully pursue scientific questions of their own design. Using a backwards faded scaffolding approach, these labs provide classroom-ready materials for bringing these two ideas together: scaffolding strategies that teach students to fruitfully engage in scientific thinking and design astronomy investigations by mining online astronomy databases, including GalaxyZoo access to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA Solar System Simulators.

Introduction to Research in Astronomy: A Backwards-Faded Scaffolding Approach

Slater, Stephanie J.

Slater, Timothy F.

Palma, Christopher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Baby University Complete "for Babies" Board Book Set (Baby University Board Book Sets)

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Ferrie, Chris

Kaiser, Sarah

Whurley

Florance, Cara

Tomamichel, Marco

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Baby-Universität - Astrophysik für Babys: Pappbilderbuch zum Vorlesen und Anregung der Entdeckungslust für Kleinkinder ab 2 Jahre

Loewe Verlag GmbH

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