Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
Students are assigned to read online articles on current astronomy events, and take a short current events quiz during the first 10 minutes of lab. (This motivates students to show up promptly to lab, as the time cut-off for the quiz is strictly enforced!)
Curtis Struck, Bruce Elmegreen, Mike Krapfl, "Iowa State, IBM Astronomers Explain Why Disk Galaxies Eventually Look Alike," September 11, 2013Iowa State and IBM astronomers propose that irregular galaxies become flattened disks due to gravitational interactions, based on:
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2013/09/11/galaxyevolution
(A) distribution of dark matter.
(B) supermassive black holes.
(C) archived photographs of older galaxies.
(D) computer simulations.
(E) images of gravitational lensing.
Correct answer: (D)
Student responses
Sections 70178, 70186, 70200
(A) : 6 students
(B) : 5 students
(C) : 13 students
(D) : 25 students
(E) : 7 students
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