Table of Contents

Preface
Curriculum: Focus on The Nature of the Science
Instruction: Focus on Constructivist Epistemology
Assessment: Focus on Celebrating Student Achievement

TIME AND THE SUN
Tracking the Sun with a Solar Dome
Toilet Plunger Sundial
Studying Shadows
What's Your Latitude?
Measuring your Longitude

THE MESSAGE OF STARLIGHT
Lenses and Telescopes
Measuring The Sun's Diameter
The Undiscovered Planet
The Toilet Paper Solar System
Spectroscopy Demonstrations
Spectra-codes: Cataloging the Stars
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (version 1 and version 2)
Selling the Stars
The Expanding Universe

VIEWING THE NIGHT SKY
Make It Yourself Constellation Finder
Constellation Projections
Using Star Charts and Maps
Observing Lunar Phases
Making Craters
The Nature of the Milky Way
Modeling Lunar Phases

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Revised 6.1.97