Presentation: instructor background

(Slides shown introducing the instructor for the first day of class.)

Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting

Astronomy 210 In-class activity 6 v.15.01.10, spring semester 2015
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

Students find their assigned groups of three to four students, and work cooperatively on an in-class activity worksheet to determine where in the sky each naked-eye planet will be observed on a given date (here, February 4, 2015).



Previous posts:

• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  fall semester 2014 (September 3, 2014).
• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  spring semester 2014 (February 6, 2014).
• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  fall semester 2013 (September 5, 2013).
• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  spring semester 2013 (February 6, 2013).
• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  fall semester 2012 (September 6, 2012).
• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  spring semester 2012 (February 2, 2012).
Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
fall semester 2011 (September 1, 2011).
• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  spring semester 2011 (February 2, 2011).
• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  fall semester 2010 (September 2, 2010).
• Astronomy in-class activity: planet-hunting
  spring semester 2010 (February 4, 2010).

Astronomy in-class activity: telescope powers

Astronomy 210 In-class activity 8 v.16.09.17, fall semester 2016
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

Students find their assigned groups of three to four students, and work cooperatively on an in-class activity worksheet to measure tube lengths and diameters on actual telescopes set up in the classroom, and then rank them in terms of relative light-gathering, resolving, and magnifying powers.

San Luis Obispo campus telescopes:




North County campus telescopes:

Astronomy in-class activity: star cluster age

Astronomy 210 In-class activity 18 v.15.01.09, spring semester 2015
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

Students find their assigned groups of three to four students, and work cooperatively on an in-class activity worksheet on comparing evolution rates of different-mass stars, and ranking relative star cluster ages given their H-R diagrams.