Teaching Astronomy: A New Blog

[goodguyseatpie]

Some damn fool (me) has decided to start a blog that focuses on astronomy education research:

Teaching Astronomy BlogI looked around and could not find another blog that discussed astronomy and physics education in way that I would like to see it. Most astronomy blogs (even ones that claim to be about education) are mainly current events and

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[drspiff]

Beans. I signed up.
I'd offer content but most of my original work lately has been on Physics labs.

[goodguyseatpie]

Actually, I would love any insights you have on physics labs (or innovations you've dreamed up that have shown to increase effectiveness). I'm writing my term paper on them! You know where to send it to ;-)

[drspiff]

Unfortunately I've spent so much time developing the labs that I haven't been able to make any scientific measurements of their effectiveness. Its harder to test this when there wasn't really an established curriculum in place to begin with that I could measure against.

I love it!

[anonymous]

Thanks, Paul, what a great resource! I'm in the process of starting up an astronomy program at my community college! I don't know if I'll have anything to share, but I have developed some physics activities. However, most have only been used once or twice now.

(Rebecca S)