Astronomy Activity Lab Manual

Hirshfeld's Astronomy Activity and Laboratory Manual is a collection of twenty classroom-based exercises that provide an active-learning approach to mastering and comprehending key elements of astronomy. Used as a stand-alone activity book, or as a supplement to any mainstream astronomy text, this manual provides a broad, historical approach to the field through a narrative conveying how astronomers gradually assembled their comprehensive picture of the cosmos over time. Each activity has been carefully designed to be implemented in classrooms of any size, and require no specialized equipment beyond a pencil, straightedge, and calculator. The necessary mathematical background is introduced on an as-needed basis for every activity and is accessible for most undergraduate students. This learn-by-doing approach is sure to engage and excite your introductory astronomy students!

The Complete Astronomy Course Solution! Bundle In Quest of the Universe, Seventh Edition with the new Astronomy Activity and Laboratory Manual, Second Edition for a complete and affordable hands-on-learning astronomy course solution. Astronomy Activity and Laboratory Manual provides a cost effective way to introduce active learning into any introductory astronomy course. The activities within this lab manual require no specialized equipment or individual materials beyond a pencil, straightedge, and common calculator, making it easy to integrate into any course of any size, whether in the classroom or online. No two astronomy courses are alike, and every instructor has a particular teaching style and approach to topic organization. That's why each activity within Astronomy Activity and Laboratory Manual is self-contained, allowing instructors to customize the selection of activities for their unique course. Take your students on an exciting journey through the universe with the compelling narrative of the Astronomy Activity and Laboratory Manual and the fact-based approach of the core textbook.

This introductory astronomy LM contains observing and lab-oratory activities that are an essential part of an intro-ductory two-semester descriptive astronomy course. The primary aim of the LM is to give the student an appreciationof the night sky. Observing activities include a compre-hensive guide to the constellations, how to find the ecliptic and the determination of North, latitude, andlength of the year. Indoor activities include building atelescope, determining the composition of stars using spec-troscopes, building a scale model of the solar system, determining the age of the Universe, and the search forplanets around other stars.