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Funded by the National Science Foundation, Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy is designed to help make large lecture-format courses more interactive with easy-to-implement student activities that can be integrated into existing course structures. The Second Edition of the Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy contains nine new activities that focus on planetary science, system related topics, and the interactions of Light and matter. These new activities have been created usi
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This review is from: Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
It’s been a long coming, but it’s finally here! Astronomy instructors and authors have produced a wonderfully readable and thoroughly comprehensible introduction to the science of astronomy. Each topic in this book really is a mini-tutorial as proclaimed by the cover title. The book format is actually written in a laboratory worksheet fashion (the sheets can be detached from the book along their perforated edges) with each worksheet dedicated to a specific astronomy concept (e.g., position, motion, Keplar’s Third Law, etc.). One pass through this ingeniously designed “book of tutorials” and the beginner to the wonderful world of the cosmo is truly ready to move on to more advanced astronomy books and/or astronomy courses. My congratulations (and gratitude) to the Pearson Addison-Wesley Publishing Company for making the concept of learning enjoyable once again.
If you are at all interested in astronomy, but recoiled away from the subject after opening a typical “introductory” college textbook, then you would do yourself a tremendous favor by purchasing this book. You won’t be disappointed!
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Adam’s “Lecture Tutorials” collection is an excellent suppliment to any astronomy textbook. While most text books include a couple of introductory chapters on naked-eye astronomy the material included is often surface deep at best and downright confusing at worst. Much of this is because the topics covered (i.e.-the celestial sphere, daily and yearly motions of the stars, sun and moon, etc) are highly abstract and require activities that force the student to move away from memorization towards an understand of the apparent motions and what causes them.
The Lecture Tutorials are a test ed set of just such activities based on a wealth of astronomy education research. They can be used in both large scale classes and smaller groups to get students to work through the difficult misconceptions and misunderstands that oftentimes beset the subjects being studied.
The activities range throughout the standard astronomy curriculum but, in my opinion, the best activites are those that focus on the apparent motions of the Sun, Moon and stars.
I recommend this to any student trying to better understand the subject and for any educator who wants help moving their students from “fun facts” to deeper understanding.
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This review is from: Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
The book I ordered was for school, it does what I need it to and it came to me in fine condition, just as it said online. trustworthy but took a while to ship.
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February 18th, 2011 at 1:04 am
A Really Enjoyable Introduction to Astronomy,
It’s been a long coming, but it’s finally here! Astronomy instructors and authors have produced a wonderfully readable and thoroughly comprehensible introduction to the science of astronomy. Each topic in this book really is a mini-tutorial as proclaimed by the cover title. The book format is actually written in a laboratory worksheet fashion (the sheets can be detached from the book along their perforated edges) with each worksheet dedicated to a specific astronomy concept (e.g., position, motion, Keplar’s Third Law, etc.). One pass through this ingeniously designed “book of tutorials” and the beginner to the wonderful world of the cosmo is truly ready to move on to more advanced astronomy books and/or astronomy courses. My congratulations (and gratitude) to the Pearson Addison-Wesley Publishing Company for making the concept of learning enjoyable once again.
If you are at all interested in astronomy, but recoiled away from the subject after opening a typical “introductory” college textbook, then you would do yourself a tremendous favor by purchasing this book. You won’t be disappointed!
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|February 18th, 2011 at 1:06 am
Excellent Hands-On Suppliment,
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Adam’s “Lecture Tutorials” collection is an excellent suppliment to any astronomy textbook. While most text books include a couple of introductory chapters on naked-eye astronomy the material included is often surface deep at best and downright confusing at worst. Much of this is because the topics covered (i.e.-the celestial sphere, daily and yearly motions of the stars, sun and moon, etc) are highly abstract and require activities that force the student to move away from memorization towards an understand of the apparent motions and what causes them.
The Lecture Tutorials are a test ed set of just such activities based on a wealth of astronomy education research. They can be used in both large scale classes and smaller groups to get students to work through the difficult misconceptions and misunderstands that oftentimes beset the subjects being studied.
The activities range throughout the standard astronomy curriculum but, in my opinion, the best activites are those that focus on the apparent motions of the Sun, Moon and stars.
I recommend this to any student trying to better understand the subject and for any educator who wants help moving their students from “fun facts” to deeper understanding.
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|February 18th, 2011 at 1:41 am
It came!,
The book I ordered was for school, it does what I need it to and it came to me in fine condition, just as it said online. trustworthy but took a while to ship.
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