In the list below, the following codes are used to indicate audience/grade levels where this Teachnique, instructional tool, or item may be educationally suited:

P = Grades K-3 E = Elementary Grades 4-6 M = Middle School Grades 7-8
H = High School Grades 9-12 C = College or University I = Informal/Public Outreach
G = General Audiences

ASTRONOMY, CELESTIAL OBJECTS, AND TOOLS

History

The Stonehenge in the USA, Is It Educationally Valuable? – 50 G
Using Kepler’s Harmony of the Worlds to show planetary distances, eccentricities, and more for the visually impaired with sound, and to create the sounds (notes and chords) for the non-impaired – 4 HCIG
Cultural Astronomy in Your Hometown – 6 IG
An Antikythera Replica for the Classroom – 6 HC
A Historical Method Approach to Teaching Kepler’s 2nd Law – 17 C
We Know the Way: Learning the Secrets of Celestial Navigation from Ancient Travellers – 18 HC
Astronomer Birthday Calendar – 30 G
AAS: Audio Diaries of the Cosmos – 44 GI
Gravity Rules! (A STEM Story) [Da Vinci Measured Gravity First) – 47 GH
Why Does the March Equinox Time Spring All Over the Clock? – 48 G

General Observing

Start the School Year with Some Observations – 8 EMHCIG
Just Look Up (What can you see with just your eyes) – 11 EMHCIG
Astrophotography with a Smartphone – 12 IG
(IAU-Shaw) What Can You Do With Spectra? (Matchbox Spectroscope) – 13 EMHCI
Sky Lessons (Measuring Planet Separations in the Evening Sky) – 14 GI
{An App on Star Trails/Motions, within Smartphone Universes article) – 15 HC
Sky Lessons (Eyeball “Spectroscopy”) – 20 G
The Value of a Marathon (Naked Eye Messier Marathon) – 22 G
Planets All In A Row, In The Sky – 27 G
The Planetary Ecliptic Zone (Planets Are Not On the Ecliptic, and There are 14 More Constellations They Go Through!)- 28 HC
USNO Sky Information – 30 G
RAP Sheet – What Hides Within a Photograph: Analysis of a Light Curve in the Classroom – 30 HC
When the Sun and the Moon Look the Same Size, How Big is a Shadow? – 38 EMH
Ecliptic Constellations Sizes and Borders – 39 GMH
Constellations are Electrifying (Making Constellations in electric circuits) – 40 HC
Lessons with A Half-Day Border Crossing – 48 G
Magnitude and Color of Mars (Comparing It as Saturn Passes Castor and Pollux) – 48 GI

Sun

What Color is the Sun? Or Any Other Star? – 9 EMHCG
Low Tech Ways to View the Sun – 12 EMHI
{An App on Eclipses, within Smartphone Universes article) – 15 HC
Mind Your Beeswax! (Things you can do with a Sun course, astronomical and cultural) – 16 GC
Ecliptic Motions of the Sun and Moon – 21 G
Heliophysics Big Year – 29 G
RAP Sheet: Total Eclipses of the Sun as Depicted in the Modern Popular Novel – 29 G
A Touch of Space Weather (Models for BVI and Sighted Students) – 36 HC
Make Your Own Sun – 41 P

Solar Eclipses

Eclipse Photography (and Out of Eclipse, too) – 3 G
Galileoscopes for the Upcoming Eclipses – 39 G
Replicating a 1930s Experiment—Animals and Eclipses—The Modern Way – 45 GI
A Funding Opportunity from NASA – 45 G
What Can You Learn With a Ring of Fire? – 45 G
AAS Solar Eclipse Sessions) – 46
– Prices on Solar Galileoscopes Revealed – G
– Solar Eclipse Things to Talk About – G
– How Many Will See The Eclipse? – G
– Guides Available – G
– The Eclipse at Your Library GI
– Live Streaming The Eclipse I
More on the Upcoming Eclipses, Travel – 48 G
– New Maps of the Eclipses’ Paths
– Twice the Eclipses! (Places That Will See Two Solar Eclipses)
– Places to Visit While You Are There

Solar System – General, Motions

Demonstrating Gravity on Other Worlds – 8 MHC
Using Jupiter to Demonstrate an Example of Kepler’s Third Law – 8, 41 HC
Using the Calendar to Demonstrate Two Examples of Kepler’s Second Law; – 9 G
Programming Ozobots to Show Planetary Motions – 11 MHC
How Eccentric is Earth’s Orbit and Where is the Sun? (Misconceptions Check) – 13 C
{An App on Solar System Motions, within Smartphone Universes article) – 15 HC
Ecliptic Pachinko (Delineating the Ecliptic with Planetary positions and motions in December 2021/January 2022) – 15 GI
Ecliptic Motions of the Sun and Moon – 21 G (Sun-Redux – 22 G)
Using Phobos’ Eclipse of the Sun to Find the Sun’s Size – 23 G
Editorial – The Real Lesson to Learn from Comet SW3 and the Meteor ‘Storm’ – 27 G
Pluto in Crisis (Using Characters as Stand-ins for Concepts in Videos) – 37 G
Magnitude and Color of Mars (Comparing It as Saturn Passes Castor and Pollux) – 48 GI

Earth – The Planet and Its Motions

Determining Earth’s Size on Any Given Day – 2 HC
Earth’s Rotation Video, from its surface – 3 G
How the Earth Tilts (as seen from space) – 4 G
A Call to Join a Zooniverse Activity on CO2 effects on Mars and Earth – 4 G
LandSat Art – 5 GI
Teaching about No Planet B – 5 G
Observing Daily and Yearly Motions in the Sky – 11 PEMI
Low Tech Daytime Astronomy – Determining Earth’s Size; Sky Color and Sun’s Color – 12 MHI
An Observational Project for a Large Class —Determination of the Duration of the Sidereal Day – 17 C
The March Equinox (Worksheets, Information, Apps) – 22 CHMG
Why Does the March Equinox Time Spring All Over the Clock? – 48 G

Moon

A Flat Moon? (A Demonstration to Show if the Moon is Flat or Spherical – 10 HC
What the Moon’s South Pole Looks Like (NASA Video, Project Artemis) — 12 G
The November 19th Nearly Total, Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse – What Can You Do Educationally? – 13 HCIG
(IAU-Shaw) The Moon – 13 G
We–Had–An Eclipse (Cell Phone Photography of Eclipse) – 14 G
All the Moon’s Motions, and to Scale! – 15 G
– Which One Is More Effective in Teaching the Phases of the Moon and Eclipses: Hands-On or Computer Simulation? – 18 G
Measuring Lunar Distances (And Those on Other Objects) With Google Earth Pro, Smartphone Photos and Spherical Geometry – 19 HC
Ecliptic Motions of the Sun and Moon – 21 G
Measuring the Moon’s Size and Distance with a Ball and a Total Eclipse – 25 GI
Results of Measuring the Moon’s Size and Distance during the March Eclipse – 26 GI
RAP Sheet – Grade Level Influence in Middle School Students’ Spatial-Scientific Understandings of Lunar Phases – 30 M
RAP Sheet–Observation of Libration and Change in Apparent Diameter of the Moon with a Pinhole Camera – 33 G
Education With November’s Total Lunar Eclipse – 38 G
Photo of Earth-Moon to Scale from the Lucy Probe – 43 G

Comets and Meteors

Sky Lessons: The Difference Between Comets and Meteors (Perseids and Comet K2, Summer 2022) – 33 G
Sky Lessons: The Orionids and What Kinds of Questions Can You Get from Making Craters from ‘Meteors’? – 37 GMHC
Meteor Radiants Aren’t Stationary – 38 G
Comet 2022 E3 ZTF in January/February 2023 – 41 G

Asteroids

Rotating Potatoes (and light curves) – 6 HC
Rotato Redux! – 7 HC
Near-Earth Asteroids Students Can Research – 32 C

Mars and its Probes

A Call to Join a Zooniverse Activity on CO2 effects on Mars and Earth – 4 G
A Tool For Comparing Mars and Earth – 8 G
What Can You Do With a Martian Eclipse? – 23 G

Satellites and Space Telescopes

Exploration of the Universe with Big Data – A Paid Subscriber Option! Join Us! – 49, 50 HCG
Webb Telescope – VR Program – 3 HCIG
NASA StarShade Origami for Home Use – 7 G
Locating the James Webb Telescope at L2 – 16 HC
Searching Gaia – 42 C
Exploration of the Universe with Big Data – 49

Telescopes, Earth Based

Virtual Radio Observatory Tours – 3 G
Virtual Goddard Tours – 10 G
Astronomy Remotely (Column) – 1. Remote Observing, Generally – 11 G
Astronomy Remotely – Observing with iTelescope, Part 1 – 13 G
Astronomy Remotely – What Kinds of Research Can You Do (RTSRE Report) – 30 G
Astronomy Remotely – Robotic Astronomy for Neophytes, Part 1 – SLOOH – 31 MHG
Astronomy Remotely – Robotic Astronomy for Neophytes, Part 2 – LCO – 32 EM
Planetary Radar for Students – 32 C
Astronomy Remotely – Thoughts to Consider from the Robotic Telescope Science Research and Education Conference (for courses that use Robotic Scopes, and those that don’t) – 33 G

Nebulae

Hubble’s Field Guide to Nebulae – 13 IG
Hubble’s Name That Nebula Game Site – 19 MH
Light Echo Video from NASA – 39 G

Stars, General

Brightness, Color, Location – 1 G
Estimating Star Distances with a Light Bulb – 9 HC
Sound of a Supernova’s Structure – 10 IG
Teaching Activities Using Stellarium – 10 MHCG
Additional Exercises and Resources Using Stellarium – 10 MHCG
IAU-Shaw: Making Constellations Using Rubber Bands – 14 G
Students LOVE Black Holes and Destruction (Hubble Video) – 14 G
Observing Algol’s Eclipses with Brute Force Plotting – 17 G
Timing Pulsars: An Exercise in Statistical Analysis and the Scientific Process – 17 HC
Sounds of Black Holes (and other things) – 26 G
Wonderful Mira (Observing its 2022 Peak) – 28 G
A New HR Diagram – 29 HC
Stellar and Planetary Brightness Differences – 38 G
AAS: SDU–Sensing the Dynamic Universe (Sonification of Time-Domain Astronomy – 44 G

Stars with Exoplanets

Kepler’s Harmony of the Worlds adapted to Exoplanetary Systems–How many can you hear? – 5 G
What Hides Within a Photograph: Analysis of a Light Curve in the Classroom – 42 HC
AAS: Citizen Science Options–Exoplanet Watch – 44 I

Extraterrestrials and Life Elsewhere

NASA’s CoLD protocol for announcing Life and ETs – 12 HCG
AAS: Citizen Science Options–Are We Alone in the Universe (Searching with Radio) – 44 HIC

The Milky Way and its Contents

When is the Milky Way not a Candy Bar? – 2 G
A Progression of Star Cluster – 18 GMHCI
Galactic Structure in the Winter Sky – 19 GIMHC

Cosmology and Other Galaxies

Educational Design Framework for a Web‑Based Interface to Visualise Authentic Cosmological ‘Big Data’ in High School – 8
(IAU-Shaw) What Can You Do With Spectra? (Hubble Expansion with Elastic Tape) – 13
IAU-Shaw: Tactile Galaxies, for Sighted and Visually Impaired Together – 14 G
Zooming Through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Simulation – 17 G

Other

First Webb Photos’ Look-Back Times and Distance – 32 G
NASA Goddard’s 2022’s Greatest Hits – 33 G
IAU Shaw: Astro News For Kids – 40 EM

Other Sciences and Society

Art and Science

The Stonehenge in the USA, Is It Educationally Valuable? – 50 G
Life on a Pale RED Dot (Using Infrared Photography to Simulate Life on planets around M Dwarf stars) – 6 HCG
From Science to Stanzas, Astronomy Education Poetically Written, Part 1 – 25 MHC
From Science to Stanzas, Astronomy Education Poetically Written, Part 2 (Worked Out Examples, Poetic Forms and Example Usages) – 26 MHC
RAP Sheet: Teaching Mars Literature – 29 GC
RAP Sheet: Total Eclipses of the Sun as Depicted in the Modern Popular Novel – 29 G
IAU Shaw: Looking for Astronomy Storybooks? Look Carefully… – 39 EM

Astronomy in Society

RAP Sheet: Teaching Mars Literature – 29 GC
From the Smartphone to the Universe – 36 MHC
Astronomy for Families (at Libraries in the UK) – 37 I
Using Astronomy to Teach About Climate Change – 42 G
Economic Impacts of Space – 47 G

Physics and Mathematics

Physics for the Masses: Teaching Einsteinian Gravity in Primary School – 10 EMH
IAU-Shaw: Gravity and Space-Time (Demonstration Devices with Stretched Sheets) – 14 MHCGI
Gravitational Wave Demonstrator – 14 I
The Inverse Square Smartphone – 15 HC
An Observational Project for a Large Class —Determination of the Duration of the Sidereal Day (Measurements and Statistics) – 17 C
Timing Pulsars: An Exercise in Statistical Analysis and the Scientific Process – 17 HC
Measuring Lunar Distances (And Those on Other Objects) With Google Earth Pro, Smartphone Photos and Spherical Geometry – 19 HC
“Bend It Like Dark Matter!”– Gravitational Jelly Lensing – 20 MH
A Comparison of Short and Long Einsteinian Physics Intervention Programmes in Middle School – 23 M
Math on Earth or in Space -and- Math On Other Worlds Beyond (4 items total) – 40 MHC
IAU Shaw: Gravitational Wave Resources – 40 GHC
Powers of Ten Cards – 41 MH
ISS Water Drops – 42
Gravity Rules! (A STEM Story) [Da Vinci Measured Gravity First) – 47 GH
Plasma Video – 47 G

Editorial and Comments

Cosmos + 41 (How far have we come in Astro Ed, and Not) – 11
Editorial – The Real Lesson to Learn from Comet SW3 and the Meteor ‘Storm’ – 27 G
Commentary on MSU Shooting – 46

EDUCATION IN GENERAL

Teaching Techniques

Tactile Printing. Not Just for the Blind Anymore -2
Active Learning Basics – 2
Words, and How You Show Them, Matter -3
Tell Me a Story, Professor!  The use of historical stories in Physics (and Astronomy) – 4
Advice for External Teachers – 6
Virtual Primary Schooling Advice–Get Up and Dance! – 6 PE
Science Outreach with Seniors – 6 I
COVID-19 Precautions for Public Astronomy Education Sessions – 9 I
Smartphone Universes (Astronomy Apps for teaching specific concepts) – 15 HC
Students Learning Through Teaching (Teaching Units on Astronomers, a Concept, a Cosmic Place as a Tourism Spot) – 15 CG
Two RAP Sheet articles on Learning science through Drawing – 15 PEMH
Better Ways to Use Journal Clubs (RAP Sheet Article) – 16 GC
Assessing Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Understanding of Science Practices Using Children’s Astronomy Storybooks – 17 E
“Making What Already Exists Accessible,” Astronomy Labs for the Blind and Visually Impaired – 18 C
An Outdoor Project-Based Learning Program: Strategic Support and the Roles of Students with Visual Impairments Interested in STEM – 21 MH
Designing Physics Board Games: A Practical Guide for Educators (Includes Astronomy Game References) – 23 G
From Science to Stanzas, Astronomy Education Poetically Written, Part 1 – 25 MHC
From Science to Stanzas, Astronomy Education Poetically Written, Part 2 (Worked Out Examples, Poetic Forms and Example Usages) – 26 MHC
The Write Stuff (Writing as a Success Strategy in Courses) – 29 C
An Outline for Doing an Astronomy Course for Mastering Skills – 30 C
Brightness, Color, Location for Blind and Visually Impaired…and Sighted(!) Students – 31 G
How NOT to Do Tactile Astronomy (Education Teachniques) – 32 G
NAM: A Course on Cosmic Clocks (and Archaeoastronomy, and with a Planetarium) – 33 G
RAP Sheet: Evaluating the Content Accuracy of Augmented Reality Applications on the Solar System – 33 G
RAP Sheet: Sonification and Sound Design for Astronomy Research, Education and Public Engagement (with a large collection of links) – 34 GHC
Improving Your Online Interactivity – 35 G
A Touch of Space Weather (Models for BVI and Sighted Students) – 36 HC
Accessible Universe (from Chandra and NASA Universe of Learning) – 36 G
Not All Color Graphics Are Equal (Reds and Blues) – 37 G
Pluto in Crisis (Using Characters as Stand-ins for Concepts in Videos) – 37 G
IAU Shaw: Ten Strategies for a Successful Primary Curriculum – 39 P
AAS: Storytelling the Story of Astronomy – 43 G
AAS: Astronomy Media Literacy – 43 G
AAS: Citizen Science Options–Are We Alone in the Universe (Searching with Radio) – 44 HIC
AAS: SDU–Sensing the Dynamic Universe (Sonification of Time-Domain Astronomy – 44 G
AAS: School-Sized Radio Telescopy – 45 HC
Distances in the Universe: An Inquiry Lab Sequence Taught in West Africa and North America – 47 HC
Educational Examples of Using Big Data in the Classroom – 49 MHC

Planetariums

How College Planetariums are Used – 7 C
Periodicity and Change: Talking about Time Inside the Planetarium Dome – 10
Taking Your Planetarium Virtual – 35 GC
The Next IPS Meeting (Berlin and Jena in 2024) – 35 G
The One Sky Project (Cultural and Indigenous 2D and Full Dome Films) – 35 G
Who Is Under The Dome? (A Preliminary Report on a Global Demographic Survey of Planetarians) – 35 G
Astro Visualizations – 36 G
IAU Shaw: A Full Dome Planetarium Curriculum – 40 P

Calls for Assistance

An Imaging Tool for Color Impaired Students Needs Testers – 5
Testing Rubin Observatory Activities – 10
NASA’s UNITE Citizen Science Project Seeks Telescope Users – 42

General – Miscellaneous

IAU’s Official List of Astronomy’s Connections to Other Human Endeavors – 4
The Gateway Science: a Review of Astronomy in the OECD School Curricula,
Including China and South Africa – 10 (Redux, in more detail – 22)
IAU-Shaw: Miscellaneous Things Noted (3D Printed Planets, Students Conceptions of Star Motions, Korean Teacher Training) – 14 G
The First Paragraph is as Good as it Gets (Wikipedia Articles) – 14
What Kids Think Activities are Like Real Science/Scientists – 15 E
History of Astronomy Education Journals, and the RAP Sheet – 17 G
Hubble’s Your Birthdate Photo Site – 19 G
A Deep Dive Into the WorldWide Telescope – 21 G
Making a WorldWide Telescope Tour – 23 GC
Planets All In A Row, Educational Activities – 27 G
A Space Game for Grandpa/Grandma? – 28 G
What to Know about Astronomy in Community Colleges – 29 C
AstroPix – 29 G
RAP Sheet: Science Cafés: Exploring Adults’ Motivation to Learn Science in a Community Space – 34 I
Astro Visualizations – 36 G
Three+ Virtual Realities – 36 G
Perceptions of Outreach (Survey Results Among Planetary Scientists) – 37 GC
IAU Shaw: Astronomy is Universal—The Gateway Topic (multiple stories) – 40 EMHC
La Ciencia del Cielo – Science of the Sky (Spanish Zoom Seminar) – 47 G

Travel

Planets All In A Row, on Earth (Model Solar Systems) – 27 G
Collated List of Model Solar Systems 1.0 – 28 G
The Hawaiian Movable Model Solar System – 31 G
More on the Upcoming Eclipses, Travel – 48 G
– New Maps of the Eclipses’ Paths
– Twice the Eclipses! (Places That Will See Two Solar Eclipses)
– Places to Visit While You Are There

Events

Global Astronomy Month 2021 – 1
Global Astronomy Month 2022 – 23
Inspire Girls During World Space Week – 10
An Astronomy Cafe for Teens, and Soon for Teachers – 20
Observing Workshops for Undergraduates and HS Grads at Mt. Wilson – 23 C

Standards

Next Generation Science Standards in Astronomy, Part 1 – General Description – 4
Next Generation Science Standards in Astronomy, Part 2 – The Whole Course, and Mistakes – 5
Next Generation Science Standards in Astronomy, Part 3 – Some Physics – 6
Next Generation Science Standards in Astronomy, Part 4 – The Paradigms of Skills – 7
Next Generation Science Standards in Astronomy, Part 5 – The Missing Matters – 8

Teachers’ Understandings

Understanding of Teachers on Phases of the Moon and the Lunar Eclipse – 8
Teachers’ Conceptions About Science and Pseudoscience Distinguishing Astronomy from Astrology – 19
Recorded Workshops With Authentic Data (Teacher Workshops Online) – 47

Link and Resource Collections

Dr. Andrew Fraknoi’s List of Free Astro Labs – 9 G
(Above Revised, Indexed, Annotated) – 23 C
Massively Resourceful Collections (BIG Resource Collections: Center for Astronomy Education, Astronomycenter.org, Andrew Fraknoi’s Resource Guides, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Apps and Simulations, Foothill College AstroSims) – 15 CG
Color Image and Video Collections – 16 G
RAP Sheet: Sonification and Sound Design for Astronomy Research, Education and Public Engagement (with a large collection of links) – 34 GMC
Need Some Astronomy PowerPoints? – 39 G
AstroEDU Teacher Peer Reviewed Resources – 41 G

Assessments

Knowledge of Sun and Star motions – 1
MOOCs – 1
QuaRCS – 3
Motivations and Attitudes of Attendees at Public Science Event Observing Sessions – 4 I
What works better for vocabulary? VR, 360 Annotated, or 2D? – 5
Science Center Visitors’ Interactions with Exhibits – 5 I
Observing Diaries for Astro 101 Classes – 7 C
Don’t Use That Clicker, Hand Me a Laser! Huh? – 12 C
How Eccentric is Earth’s Orbit and Where is the Sun? (Misconceptions Check) – 13 HCG
Development and Application of a Concept Test on the Subject of Stars – 14 C
Elementary School Children’s Explanations of Day and Night; An Interpretation Based on an Inferential Approach to Representations – 19 PE
Identifying Students’ Mental Models of the Apparent Motions of Sun and Stars (an In-Dome Assessment) – 23 HC
Extracting Information from the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram: An Eye-Tracking Study – 40 C
Students’ Scientific Evaluations of Astronomical Origins – 47 HC
The Method of Observation in Science Education – Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective – 47 HC

Strictly for Students

A LARGE List of Summer Internships – 32 C