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07-31-2019, 08:57 PM | #1 |
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Astronomy for High School
Anyone know of a high school astronomy curriculum? I need something for a full credit and need to somehow include a lab with it.
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07-31-2019, 10:25 PM | #2 |
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Re: Astronomy for High School
This blog collected a few...
https://www.learningonlineblog.com/2...chool-student/
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07-31-2019, 11:05 PM | #3 |
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Re: Astronomy for High School
I think your best option might be to find a used college text and exclude any chapters/problems that are above his math level. There is extremely little true astronomy available for high school or younger, that I've found. Gravitas Publications will have one eventually that is a legitimate preparation for college astronomy.
I have not been impressed by AOP science (one of the options mentioned in the blog). I have not seen their astronomy course, though. IME astronomy labs are almost entirely math and computer simulations. Just mentioning in case your student isn't expecting that. I did find these free lab resources. https://www.oercommons.org/authoring...es-for-as/view |
08-01-2019, 08:24 AM | #4 |
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Re: Astronomy for High School
http://www.gavirtuallearning.org/Res...tronomy17.aspx I dont know what a lab would look like. You may want to contact the closest college campus that has astronomy to see when there are things open to the public . Also closest planetarium
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08-01-2019, 08:21 AM | #5 |
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Re: Astronomy for High School
It is not a currculum but I know that in Vermont the collage astronomy course used the larger astronomy book by HA Ray ( who wrote curious George- he wrote two astronomy books) as the text book.
Do you have a local planetarium? In highschool I helped program and design a plantain show. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
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I'm having trouble finding the HA Rey college texts online. Yes, we do have a planetarium.
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08-01-2019, 11:51 AM | #7 |
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Re: Astronomy for High School
Dd1 did astronomy for hs credit via the community college. I can ask her if she is willing to part with her text book.
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Does it have labs with it? I may be interested in buying it if she's willing to part with it. Do you have a title handy so that I might try to find it online to see if it will fit our needs? ---------- Post added at 02:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:03 PM ---------- Quote:
I think I checked that book out of the library when my kids were little and we loved looking it!
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I'll check with her on the title.
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