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Astronomy 1010-H Planetary Astronomy Fall_2014 Day-2

Astronomy 1010-H Planetary Astronomy Fall_2014 Day-2. Course Announcements. Smartworks Chapter 1: Due Friday (Sep. 5) Smartworks Chapter 2: Mon . 9/15 (target ) Read Chapter 2.1, 2.2 Still time to register for ASTR-2010 – Problems in Planetary Astronomy 1220-1315 Mondays, B-111.

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Astronomy 1010-H Planetary Astronomy Fall_2014 Day-2

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  1. Astronomy 1010-H Planetary Astronomy Fall_2014 Day-2

  2. Course Announcements • Smartworks Chapter 1: Due Friday (Sep. 5) • Smartworks Chapter 2: Mon. 9/15 (target) • Read Chapter 2.1, 2.2 • Still time to register for ASTR-2010 – Problems in Planetary Astronomy • 1220-1315 Mondays, B-111

  3. Five-Minute Essay • My name is… • I am taking ASTR 1010 because… • In ASTR 1010 I hope to learn about … • When I graduate I hope to… • One thing I would like Dr. Smith to know about me is…

  4. Why we will be doing stuff other than lecture in class From How People Learn: “Students enter your lecture hall with preconceptions about how the world works. If their initial understanding is not engaged, they may fail to grasp the new concepts and information that are taught, or they may learn them for the purposes of a test but revert to their preconceptions outside the classroom” How People Learn, National Research Council, National Academy Press, 2000

  5. A Commonly Held Inaccurate Model of Teaching and Learning

  6. Key results from research into education and cognition • Learning is productive / constructive - learning requires mental effort. • Knowledge is associative / linked to prior mental models and cognitive structures. • The cognitive response is context dependent – what and how you learn depends on the educational setting. • Most people require some social interactions in order to learn deeply and effectively.

  7. Current State of Affairs • Students and teachers have strongly held ‘misconceptions’ (Comins, 2001; Hufnagle, et. al, 1999; Sadler, 1998, 1992, 1989; Bailey & Slater, 2004) • Students find introductory science courses to be boring, irrelevant, and incongruous with the stated goals of scientists (Redish, 1996; Tobias, 1986) • ‘Active Engagement’ approaches produce significant and long-lasting learning gains compared to even the most entertaining of lectures (Hake, 1996; Francis, Adams, and Noonan, 1998; Prather et. al. 2010)

  8. Active Learning Active learning is when students take active responsibility for participating in and monitoring of their own learning by engaging in critical reasoning about the ideas presented in the class. In other words: you must do it, you won’t learn it if I just tell it to you

  9. Colored Card Question • The Observations Requirement for this class requires you to: • go out on your own and observe the night sky once a week for the entire semester. • attend at least one 1st Quarter Observing Night and one Dark Sky Night and write an Observations Report. • buy a telescope and observe specific stars and constellations with it. • learn the names and locations of 30 stars and 25 constellations in the night sky.

  10. Another Colored Card Question • During the semester there will be: • 5 exams plus a final exam • 4 exams plus a final exam • 3 exams but no final exam • 2 exams: a midterm and a final exam

  11. Yet Another Colored Card Question • Texting/social networking is acceptable behavior in class. • A. Strongly disagree. B. Disagree. C. Neutral. D. Agree. E. Strongly agree.

  12. One more Colored Card Question • The homework for this class will be: • assignments handed out in class and due the following week. • assignments posted on the class D2L website and due in class the following day. • assignments in the online SmartWork system plus (possibly) some. assignment handed out in class. • None of the above, there is no homework in this class.

  13. A Bit About Moi

  14. How I Got Here

  15. Introduction • To understand the origins of our planet, we need to understand how our solar system & galaxy formed. • To understand how life formed, we need to understand the chemical evolution of the galaxy and the universe.

  16. This course in a Nutshell, We Have to Explain • How to go from a gaseous nebula …

  17. Through a series of steps … • Form a Universe, • Form galaxies and stars, • Form Planets, • Evolve Life, • And end up with …

  18. … This

  19. We Live in a Strange Universe

  20. So, Let’s Get Started

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