General Astronomy/Exercises

Hands-On Astronomy Exercises is intended to provide information about activity-based astronomy learning units. These activities target upper high school and introductory college level astronomy students. The goal of these units is to allow students to engage in hands-on activities that will complement other lecture and "non-hands-on" teaching activities. The following is the current list of activities: 1. Kepler's First Law: Draw an Ellipse 2. Scale of Solar System: Make a scaled drawing of the solar system 3. Telescopes: Make a simple telescope 4. Newton's Laws: Balloon Rocket 5. Spectroscopy: Study light fingerprints using diffraction gratings 6. Doppler Effect: Study Doppler Effect by throwing a sound device 7. Angular Displacement: Segments, fingers, fists, etc. 8. Angular Momentum