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Re: New astronomy class?

At 8:07 AM -0400 12/1/00, Tim O'Donnell wrote:
We are considering offering an Astronomy class at my high school.
Since many physics teachers teach astronomy as well I am posting
this request. Would anyone be willing to share their curriculum,
books used, programs used etc.?
Thank you.
Tim O'Donnell

We added our first astronomy class about 6-7 years ago. We started with a
fairly easy-but-good text (Discovering the Universe, Comins & Kaufmann) but
the class had a reputation for being easy, so we stiffened it up, add a
little more math, and switched to Universe (Kaufmann & Freedman). That
book is too much to get through in one semester, so we don't do it all, but
we really like it. Another reason we switched books was to get Starry
Night bundled with it for the students. What a great piece of software! I
also recommend the Project STAR kits for the students to build
spectrometers, telescopes, celestial spheres, etc.

Larry Smith
Snow College