Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy - Preliminary Version (Prentice Hall Series in Educational Innovation) - Softcover

Adams, Jeffrey P.; Prather, Edward E.; Slater, Timothy F.; CAPER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013101109X ISBN 13: 9780131011090

Publisher: Pearson, 2002

Synopsis

For introductory astronomy courses.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy are designed to help make large lecture-format courses more interactive. Each of the 29 Lecture-Tutorials is presented in a classroom-ready format, challenges students with a series of carefully designed questions that spark classroom discussion, engage students in critical reasoning, and require no equipment.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy, which was developed by the Conceptual Astronomy and Physics Education Research (CAPER) team, is a collection of classroom-tested activities designed for the large-lecture introductory astronomy class, although suitable for any astronomy class. These Lecture-Tutorials are short, structured activities designed for students to complete while working in pairs. Each activity targets one or more specific learning objectives based on research on student difficulties in astronomy. Most activities can be completed in 10 to 15 minutes.

The instructor's guide provides, for each activity, the recommended prerequisite knowledge, the learning goals for the activity, a pre-activity assessment question, an answer key, suggestions for implementation, and follow-up questions to be used for class discussion or homework.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 013101109X
• ISBN 13: 9780131011090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88