Hands-On Astronomy: The Linda and Paul Show
Day 1: Scale Of Things
Earth-Moon to Scale
Playdough Moon
Handy Measuring Tool
BREAK
Constructing Scale Models Of The Solar System
Universe To Size Scale
City Universe size
Universe To Time Scale
City Universe
Mass versus radius for things in the Universe
MR
Diagram
Day 2: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Motion Of The Earth &endash; Reflections of a Star
Spin a Koosh
Phases Of The Moon &endash;
Moon-on-a-Stick
Misconceptions About The Moon
Moon
Illusion
BREAK
Sidereal Time Activity Description
Earth Rotation
The Tides &endash; “Tide-o-Matic”
Tides
Eclipses (Solar and Lunar); Stories
From The Web
Day 3: The Planets
Cause Of The Seasons &endash; Thermal Postcard
Orbit Of The Earth
Rectified Globe
Annalema
BREAK
Orbits Of The Planets
Gravity well
Gravity
assist
Cratering Of The Planets
cratering
crater
illusion
Boiling of Water on Mars
Day 4: Ancient Astronomy
Sundials &endash; Analemmic, etc…
Astrology, The Zodiacal Constellations and Precession
Precession Calendar Demonstration
BREAK
Interpreting Mayan Glyphs or Quipu Calendar
Examples Of Ancient Instruments, The Backstaff, etc &endash;
Day 5: How Astronomers Interpret Light
Blackbody Radiation Exhibit
The Spectrum, Spectroscopy, and Spectroscopes
Photometry &endash; oil spot photometer and luminosity of the sun
Solar
Brightness
Repeat with thermal postcards
Solar thermal
Emission and Absorption
Fraunhoffer lines of the Sun
Hubble How do you know that?
Seeing (Twinkling)
Day 6: The Stars
Pie Pan Convection: Modeling the Surface of a Star
The Rest Of The Spectrum: Building an IR detector/emitter, seeing IR,
seeing UV
Seeing IR
BREAK
Life Cycles of the Stars
Interpreting the HR Diagram
Day 7: Cosmology
Dark Matter Activities (graph the planets; Internet research
project)
Balloon Universe
Universal Balloon
Center of the Universe
(Transparencies)
Curved Space
Evidence For Big Bang
Rubberband Universe &endash; stretching of light
Expansion of Light
Expanding Universe
Lecture
Day 8: Misc. Topics
Design An Alien
About Telescopes &endash; lenses and mirrors, resolving power, form
and function
The Hubble &endash; Image Interpretation Day
Hubble What do you see?
Energy Levels
of a Stool
Negative
Temperatures
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Scientific Explorations with Linda Shore and Paul Doherty |
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12 July 2001 |