Category Archives: Astronomy
Analogous Shifts: NGSS and the Hubble Space Telescope
This past March, I attended the National Science Teachers Association’s National Conference on Science Education in Chicago. For the past few years, most sessions have revolved around helping teachers understand, and apply, the Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2011), … Continue reading
How to Have a Personal Experience with the Universe
One of the programs I manage at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is Project ASTRO. The basic idea of Project ASTRO is to partner volunteer astronomers with classroom teachers. Each astronomer visits their teachers classroom multiple times during the … Continue reading
The Eclipses of October
Twice a year, the geometry of the Sun-Earth-Moon system brings the three bodies into alignment, causing the circumstances leading to solar and lunar eclipses. For viewers in North America, October 2014 features the chance to see both: a total eclipse … Continue reading
Finding Perspective and Meaning with the Moon
A couple years ago, the theme for the annual International Observe the Moon Night was “What does the Moon mean to me?” Expressing meaning can take a lot of forms, most of them in the form of stories. Humans have long told … Continue reading
Musings on the Planet 