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THE MAGAZINE ABOUT TEACHING
ASTRONOMY
General Index of Articles by Content Area
Volumes 1-4 (Issues 1-16)
This general index covers topics in feature articles and the columns Astronomical Teachniques, Teachers' Challenge, and Photons Focused on: but does not index the seasonal Teachers Sky Planning Calendar, most RAP
Sheets, the editor's My View of the Classroom Universe. Each listing consists of the Issue Number followed by
the general title of the article. Parentheses are used to either describe more fully the reference or to indicate that
it is a subset of an article or Teachnique column for that issue.
After this is an index of articles coded as Elementary, Middle School or Informal Education, in the opinion of the
editor. Some RAP sheet material may be here. You know your own students best....
Physics and Laws
Scientific and Astronomical Techniques
Stars, Stellar Evolution, Representative Objects, Constellations
13 - The Cause of Summer Tilt or Distance to the
14 - Magnetometer in a Bottle (in 16 - Astronomy of the Northern Sky - CoordinatSun? Kepler to the Rescue! "2013's Solar Maximum in the
ing Your Positions (degrees and arc distances,
(A Teachnique)
Classroom" article)
star nomenclature and coordinate systems)
10 - Taking Spreadsheets
13 - Testing Your Binocular Limits 15 - Jigsaw H-R Diagram (in Astronomical
from Dull to Dynamic With with Binaries
Teachniques)
Animation (Kepler's 3rd Law,
Blackbody Radiation, Dop- 13 - Transit of Venus, Revisited
15 - Astronomy of the Northern Sky - How
pler Shift, and Escape Veloc- (better calculation results)
Bright is That Star?
ity of Gases)
12 - The Transit of Venus Deter- 14. - Where Do You Come From? (In Astro8 - Eye Spy - Visual Specmines the Astronomical Unit
nomical Teachniques)
troscopy
11 - From Generation to Generation 14 - Astronomy of the Northern Sky - Star Col8 - Digital Spectroscopy,
- Measuring Double Stars
ors and Spectral Types
Light with a laptop
10 - Sketching The Moon and Gal- 13 - Testing Your Binocular Limits with Bina8 - Candied Physics (using
axies
ries
candy to demonstrate atomic
emission and absorp8 - Determining Magnitudes with a 13 - Astronomy of the Northern Sky - Year
tion) (Teachnique)
Digital Camera
Round Teaching Tool (debut of column, with
definitions, zones, and details on Polaris)
6 - Jupiter's Moons and Ke- 6 - Warning! This Article Contains
pler's 3rd Law
Graphing Content
11 - From Generation to Generation - Measuring
Double Stars
1 - What if Ptolemy and Co- 4 - (sidebar) Cell Phone-tography
pernicus Played Ping-Pong
8 - Photons Focused on: Teacher at the Tele(heliocentric and geocentric 2 - Graphing Exoplanetary Systems scope, Getting Spectra
theories)
1 - (Teachnique) Classifying and 8 - Using Spectra to Determine Planetary NebuCoding
lar Properties
1 - (Teachnique) Using Iridium
5 - Create Your Own Cosmos, The Way of the
Satellites to teach random and sys- Maasai
tematic error
5 - Zodiac Constellation Borders (Teachnique)
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Games and Puzzles
General Solar System
Historical Astronomy
15 - What Would Galileo Do? A 16 - Galileo's Diary, A Dramatic
Curriculum Approach (summary of Reading
Galileo's discoveries and activities
for each)
15 - Photons Focused On-10, 7, 6, 5, 2 - Teacher's Challenge Word
Stonehenge, A Teaching Tool?
13 - Transit of Venus, Revisited
Puzzles
(better calculation results)
15 - What Would Galileo Do? A
1 - Questions from the International AsCurriculum Approach (summary of
12 - The Transit of Venus Deter- Galileo's discoveries and activities
tronomical Olympiad
mines the Astronomical Unit
for each)
6 - An APOD Scavenger Hunt (van
Gogh's painting with hidden astronomy
photos)
Astronomical Travel/
International Astronomy
Education
14 - Photos Focused On - The Trail of
William Herschel
11 - Model Solar Systems - More
Than A Walk In The Park
14 - Eratosthenes and GPS (in Astronomical Teachniques)
11 - When The Transit-of-Venus
Party Is Over
14 - Photos Focused On - The Trail
of William Herschel
11 - A Transit of Mercury Lab
13 - Collecting the Cosmos with
World Coins
13 - Collecting the Cosmos: World Coins
10 - Astronomical Teachniques 13 - Durin's Day and Moonlit Maps - As- The Planets Rule (using the sky to 13 - Transit of Venus, Revisited
set semester curricula)
(better calculation results)
tronomy of the Moon, Taught by "The
Hobbit."
9 - Solar System Ballet, or Chaos 12 - The Transit of Venus DeterCan Be Fun!
mines the Astronomical Unit
12 - A Unique Course in a Most Urban
Environment (Mexico City HS course
7 - Photos Focused On: Solar Sys- 10 - Simulations on Your Online
using solar and radio astronomy)
tem Names (on products or places) Course Pages with HTML5 (uses
Retrograde Motion as the working
12 - Photons Focused On: Astronomy in
6
Observing
Jupiter's
Moons
and
example).
Mexican Cityscapes
Kepler's Third Law
9 - Using Galileoscopes to Dupli11 - Model Solar Systems - More Than A
4
An
International
Asteroid
Hunt
cate Galileo's Solar Observations
Walk In The Park
6 - Photons Focused on: Korea's Observa- 3 - Mapping Alien Worlds (Using 9 - The Lunar Parallax and Decemtories, Ancient & Royal, Modern & Public potatoes and studying nomencla- ber's International Measure The
ture rules)
Moon Night
4 - Resources listed in article on Astron1 - Teachable Moment, Jupiter's
7 - Gnomon Knowledge, Sundials
omy Down Under article
Not-So-Mighty Winds
are a Global Activity
4 - Places to go listed in article on astron3 - Eratosthenes' Footsteps With A 5 - Solar System Distance Scales, A
omy in Ontario article
Globe
Ladder Made of Triangles
4 - Places to go listed in article on the
2 - Moon Phases, How? How
5 - Galileo Measured a Mountain
Only Russian School with a planetarium
Long? (Teachnique)
and So Can You!
4 - Places to go resource list in article on
1 - What If Ptolemy and Coperni- 5 - A Trilogy of Lunar Eclipse artiastronomy in India's curriculum
cus Played Ping Pong (helio- and cles ( Measuring the Size and Shape
geocentric activities)
of the Earth's Shadow, What to ob1 - Arizona, Where "I Can't Find The Big
server in a total lunar eclipse, MeasDipper" is Heard (lists and URLS of astro1 - Historical Research in the
uring The Moon's Size and Disnomical places to go)
Classroom
tance)
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Astronomical Pedagogy and Teachniques
16 - A is for Historical Astronomy, or How to Organize Your Universe
16 - Galileo's Diary, A Dramatic Reading
16 - Galactic Chicken or Galactic Egg, Which Do You Teach First (Best order for teaching galaxies)
15 - The Classroom Tablet, or How I Learned to Love Apple in My Astronomy Classroom (uses of the iPad)
15 - Kinds of Facts (in Astronomical Teachniques)
15 - Jigsaw H-R Diagram (in Astronomical Teachniques)
15 - Six Steps to Build Up STEMina
14 - Class Projects, Correlations with Hurricanes, Where Do You Come From?, Local Light Pollution Survey,
Mnemonics, Eratosthenes and GPS,
Evolution Assessments With Balls
14 - Social Media for Astronomy Teachers - Good or Bad?
13 - Next Generation Standards for Astronomy
12 - A Unique Course in a Most Urban Environment (Mexico City HS course using solar and radio astronomy)
12 - Finding Astronomically Nutritious News Stories
12 - A Proposal for a daytime Astronomy Course for the US (solar and non-visible-spectrum based course)
11 - A Way To Know Just What Introductory Astronomy Students Are Interested In ((Using APOD), in Astronomical Teachniques)
11 - Would You Like a Homemade Dome With That Toy Planetarium? (in Astronomical Teachniques)
10 - Astronomical Teachniques - The Planets Rule (using the sky to set semester curricula)
10 - Which Toy Universe Would A Teacher Want for the Holidays?
10 - Simulations on Your Online Course Pages with HTML5 (uses Retrograde Motion as the working example).
10 - Taking Spreadsheets from Dull to Dynamic With Animation (Kepler's 3rd Law, Blackbody Radiation, Doppler
Shift, and Escape Velocity of Gases)
10 - Discovery Astronomy Through Poetry
9 - Students Using Narratives (in RAP Sheet, a selection of narrative styles used in a history of science project)
9 - Education Designed Universally (accessibility tips, in Teachniques)
8 - Using Magazines to Teach Literacy in Middle School (Teachnique)
7 - Investigating Astronomy Without Using Vision (Tactile Tools for the Visually Handicapped)
(Continued on the next page)
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Astronomical Pedagogy and Teachniques, continued
7 - Three Methods of Using Online Space Data to Support Inquiry (Backwards Faded Scaffolding, Jigsaw, Collaborative Inquiry)
7 - Photons Focused on: Solar System Names (in products and places)
6 - Using Misconceptions to Create Inquiry Activities
5 - A Kinesthestic Chorale (Earth Motions)
4 - Ten Ideas to Improve astronomy courses (in article on Italy's astronomy education
3 - A Scientist's Scientific Method
3 - Jigsawing the Universe
3 - Alternatives to Term Papers (Teachnique)
2 - Cub Scout activity on scales and distances (Teachnique)
1 - Historical Research in the Classroom
The Nature of Scientific
Investigation
Earth, Motions, Seasons,
etc.
15 - Kinds of Facts (in Astronomical
Teachniques)
15 - Photons Focused On-Stonehenge, A Teaching Tool
15 - Six Steps to Build Up STEMina
9 - Star Motions with Sky Simulators
12 - Finding Astronomically Nutritious News Stories
The Moon
15 - What Would Galileo Do? A
Curriculum Approach (summary of
Galileo's discoveries and activities
for each)
13 - Durin's Day and Moonlit Maps
9 - Archimedes Updated - Give Me A - Astronomy of the Moon, Taught by
Satellite and I'll Measure Earth's Mass "The Hobbit."
9 - Students Using Narratives (in RAP 7 - Gnomon Knowledge, Sundials are
Sheet, a selection of narrative styles
a Global Activity
used in a history of science project)
7 - Making a Sun Tracker
5 - Crank Astronomy As A Teaching
Tool - The Electric Sun
4 - Earth Rotates East to West
(Showing with globe and figurine)
3 - 2012, The End of the World.
Again? (History and counterarguments 4 - How High is the Sun?
on the December 2012 hoax)
3 - Eratosthenes Footsteps With a
3 - 12 for '12 (Activities and resources Globe
on the December 2012 hoax)
2 - Is it Really Noon?
3 - A Scientist's Scientific Method
10 - Photons Focused On: The Moon
in Everyday Life
1 - Classifying/Coding Astronomical
Words in Everyday Life (Teachnique)
2 - Moon Phases, Why? How Long?
9 - The Lunar Parallax and December's International Measure The
Moon Night
5 - Galileo Measured a Mountain
and So Can You!
5 - A Trilogy of Lunar Eclipse articles ( Measuring the Size and Shape
of the Earth's Shadow, What to observer in a total lunar eclipse, Measuring The Moon's Size & Distance)
2 - Let's Bomb The Moon!
1 - Moon Phase Misconceptions
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The Sun
Telescope, Tools and
Auxiliaries
Galaxies and Cosmology
16 - Galactic Chicken or Galactic Egg, Which
15 - What Would Galileo Do? A
Curriculum Approach (summary 13 - Testing Your Binocular Do You Teach First (Best order for teaching
galaxies)
of Galileo's discoveries and activi- Limits with Binaries
ties for each)
8 - Measuring Galaxy Spectra for Velocities
13 - Dish Network to
14 - 2013's Solar Maximum in the Space? The Itty Bitty Radio
7 - Measuring the Age of the Universe with
Classroom
Telescope
Google Sky
14 - Tracking Solar Storms from 13 - Astrophotography from
Birth to Earth
2 - Kinesthestic Cosmology
the Inner City
12 - Lessons Learned From A
12 - Viewing The Sun with
Ring of Fire (observations and use Radio Eyes
of Vernier sensors during eclipses)
Elementary School Level
11 - Oh, Nooo! What's That 15 - Six Steps to Build Up STEMina
12 - Viewing The Sun With Radio Thing in The Box??? Over11 - Oh, Nooo! What's That Thing in The
Eyes
coming Telephobia
Box??? Overcoming Telephobia
12 - Is There A Chance of a Storm 8 - Measuring Star MagniToday?
tudes with a Digital Camera 10 - Photons Focused On: The Moon in Everyday Life
12 - Sun Fun - Actively Observing 3 - Photo Story: Assembling
10 - Which Toy Universe Would A Teacher
The Active Sun
a Galileoscope
Want for the Holidays?
11 - What Can You Teach About 2 - Bringing Old Telescopes
9 - Solar System Ballet, or Chaos Can Be Fun!
A Ring of Fire? (annular eclipse Back To Life
activities)
Light Pollution 7 - Photos Focused On: Solar System Names (on
products or places)
9 - Using Galileoscopes to Duplicate Galileo's Solar Observations
15 - Astronomy of the North- 7 - Making a Sun Tracker
ern Sky - How Bright is That
8 - Digital Spectroscopey, Light
Star? (has stars for monitor- 5 - A Kinesthestic Chorale (Earth Motions)
With A Laptop (measuring solar
ing sky brightness)
spectrum section in article)
4 - Earth Rotates East to West (Showing with
14 - Local Light Pollution
globe and figurine)
5 - Crank Astronomy As A TeachSurvey (in Astronomical
ing Tool - The Electric Sun
Teachniques)
4 - How High is the Sun?
(includes information on how the
Sun is truly powered)
8 - Demonstrating the Loss 3 - Eratosthenes Footsteps With a Globe
of Starlight
Exoplanets
9 - Space for Math - Finding
Exoplanets
6 - Goldilocks and the 500
Exoplanets
2 - Graphing Exoplanetary Systems
2 - Is it Really Noon?
8 - Digital Spectroscopy,
Light with a Laptop
(Measuring the spectra of
street lamps)
1, 2, 8 - Alternative Universes (textbook errors)
1 - Surveying for Light Pollution sources and their
causes (Teachnique)
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Middle School Level
15 - Photons Focused On--Stonehenge, A Teaching Tool 10, 7, 6, 5, 2 - Teacher's Challenge Word Puzzles
15 - Six Steps to Build Up STEMina
7 - Photons Focused On: Solar System Names (on prod13 - Testing Your Binocular Limits with Binaries
ucts or places)
13 - Collecting the Cosmos with World Coins
7 - Three Methods of Using Online Space Data to Support Inquiry (Backwards Faded Scaffolding, Jigsaw, Col12 - Photons Focused On: Astronomy in Mexican City- laborative Inquiry)
scapes
7 - Gnomon Knowledge, Sundials are a Global Activity
12 - Sun Fun - Actively Observing The Active Sun
7 - Making a Sun Tracker
11 - Oh, Nooo! What's That Thing in The Box??? Over- 6 - Using Misconceptions to Create Inquiry Activities
coming Telephobia
11 - Model Solar Systems - More Than a Walk in the
5 - Create Your Own Cosmos, The Way of the Maasai
Park
4 - Earth Rotates East to West (Showing with globe and
10 - Photons Focused On: The Moon in Everyday Life figurine)
10 - Which Toy Universe Would A Teacher Want for the 4 - How High is the Sun?
Holidays?
3 - Mapping Alien Worlds (Using potatoes and studying
9 - Students Using Narratives (in RAP Sheet, a selection nomenclature rules)
of narrative styles used in a history of science project)
9 - Education Designed Universally (accessibility tips, in 2 - Cub Scout activity on scales and distances
Teachniques)9 - Star Motions with Sky Simulators
(Teachnique)
9 - Using Galileoscopes to Duplicate Galileo's Solar Ob- 2 - Graphing Exoplanetary Systems
servations
2 - Is it Really Noon?
2 - Moon Phases, How? How Long? (Teachnique)
8 - Using Magazines to Teach Literacy in Middle School 2 - Let's Bomb The Moon!
(Teachnique)
8 - Demonstrating the Loss of Starlight
1,2,8 - Alternative Universes (textbook errors)
Informal Education
16 - Astronomy of the Northern Sky - Coordinating
Your Positions (degrees and arc distances, star nomenclature and coordinate systems)
15 - Astronomy of the Northern Sky - How Bright is
That Star?
13 - Testing Your Binocular Limits with Binaries
12 - Sun Fun - Actively Observing The Active Sun
11 - Model Solar Systems - More Than a Walk in the
Park
11 - What Can You Teach About a Ring of Fire?
(Annular Eclipse Activities)
9 - The Lunar Parallax and December's International
Measure the Moon Night
8 - Candied Physics (using candy to demonstrate atomic
emission and absorption) (Teachnique)
7 - Making a Sun Tracker
5 - A Kinesthestic Chorale (Earth Motions)
4 - How High is the Sun?
4 - (sidebar) Cell Phone-tography
2 - Is it Really Noon?
2 - Kinesthestic Cosmology
2 - Let's Bomb The Moon!
1 - (Teachnique) Using Iridium Satellites to teach random
and systematic error
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