Activity 1: The World’s First Skywatcher – YOU!
                Worksheet, Activity 1

Activity 2: Shadowland

                Worksheet, Activity 2

 

Activity 3: Shadowland – the Sequel

                Constructing a Table of Data

                Constructing a Graph of Data

                Formulating an Equation

                Worksheet, Activity 3

 

Activity 4: Shadowland Follow-up

                Worksheet, Activity 4

 

Activity 5: The Phases of the Moon

                 Practice Run

                The Real Thing

                 Last Lap

                Worksheet, Activity 5

 

Activity 6: Eratosthenes Measures the Earth

                  Dividing the Circle

                  Parallel Lines

                  What Eratosthenes Saw

                  Finishing Up

                  Worksheet, Activity 6

 

Activity 7: Aristarchus Measures the Size and Distance of the Moon

                 Worksheet, Activity 7

 

Activity 8: Aristarchus Measures the Size and Distance of the Sun

                 Worksheet, Activity 8

 

Activity 9: The Copernican Cosmos

                 Inferior Planets: Mercury and Venus

                 Superior Planets: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

                 EXTRA CREDIT: Jupiter’s and Saturn’s orbits.

                 Worksheet, Activity 9

 

Activity 10: Kepler’s Third Law

                Worksheet, Activity 10

 

Activity 11: Isaac Newton and the Moon

                Basics of Acceleration

                Predicted Acceleration at the Moon

                Acceleration in Orbit

                Was Newton Right?

                EXTRA CREDIT (for the truly adventurous)

                Worksheet, Activity 11

 

Activity 12: Galileo Measures a Mountain – on the Moon!

                Worksheet, Activity 12

 

Activity 13: Precision Astronomy After Galileo – Stellar Aberration

               Worksheet, Activity 13

 

Activity 14: Precision Astronomy After Galileo – Stellar Parallax

                Wobbly Star

                How Far is Your Finger?

                The 3D Cosmos

                Worksheet, Activity 14

 

Activity 15: Picturing the Universe – How Photography Revolutionized Astronomy

                Faraday’s Face

                The Moon’s Face

                Jupiter’s Face

                Diffuse Nebulae: Clouds of Gas in Space

                A Galaxy Revealed

               Worksheet, Activity 15

 

Activity 16: How Bright is That Star? A Tutorial on the Magnitude System

              Worksheet, Activity 16

 

Activity 17: The Realm of the Spiral Nebulae

              Worksheet, Activity 17

 

Activity 18: Hubble’s Law – in the Kitchen and in the Universe

             Worksheet, Activity 18

 

Activity 19: The HR Diagram

            Classification, Quantification, Correlation

            Plotting the HR Diagram

           Worksheet, Activity 19

 

Activity 20: Binary Stars and Stellar Masses

            Orbital Period

            Orbital Radius

            Combined Mass of the Sirius System

            Masses of the Individual Stars

            Worksheet, Activity 20

 

Appendix: Mathbits

            A Taste of Trigonometry

            Scientific Notation