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Each chapter opens with an experiment that can be done with everyday household objects, getting students involved in the scientific process. Accompanying Smartwork questions make these easily assignable.
Starting summer 2022, the 21st Century Astronomy ebook and Smartwork course will be updated yearly with NEW research from the field.
Process of Science features in the text walk students through the anatomy of a discovery, while accompanying Smartwork assignments have students sharpen their inquiry-based skills.
Located at the end of each chapter and made assignable in Smartwork, these guided-inquiry exercises ask students to construct models with pencil and paper, and interact with simulations and animations.
These optional boxes break down the math so that students can easily follow along. If quantitative literacy is important in your course, you can take this a step further by assigning questions in Smartwork.
These annotated images show students how astronomers interpret objects in space, encouraging students to think like scientists. Accompanying Smartwork questions make them easily assignable.
Stacy Palen is an award-winning professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Weber State University. Stacy does research in formal and informal astronomy education and the death of Sun-like stars.
George Blumenthal is the director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2006 to 2019 he was the chancellor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Image Credits: (Research Updates) NASA, ESA, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), and P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); (What an Astronomer Sees) NASA/JPL/University of Arizona; (Palen) Photo by Zac Williams; (Blumenthal) Courtesy of UC Santa Cruz
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