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Astronomy and physics education research and comments, field-tested think-pair-share (peer instruction) clicker questions, flashcard questions, in-class activities (lecture-tutorials), current events questions, backwards faded scaffolding laboratories, Hake gains, field-tested multiple-choice and essay exam questions, indices of discrimination, presentation slides, photos, ephemerae, astronomy in the marketplace, unrelated random sketches and minutiae.

20131101

Astronomy current events question: red supergiant W26

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Astronomy 210L, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Students are assigned to read online articles on current astronomy...

Astronomy current events question: Earth core formation

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Astronomy 210L, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Students are assigned to read online articles on current astronomy...

Astronomy current events question: Planck telescope end-of-mission

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Astronomy 210L, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Students are assigned to read online articles on current astronomy...
20131031

Astronomy quiz question: same luminosity as, but hotter/cooler than a G5 giant?

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Astronomy 210 Quiz 5, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA [Version 1] A G5 giant has the same luminosity and a hotter...

Astronomy quiz question: red supergiant vs. white main-sequence star

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Astronomy 210 Quiz 5, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA A red supergiant can have the same luminosity as a white mai...

Astronomy quiz question: the most common visible stars

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Astronomy 210 Quiz 5, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA The most common stars in the night sky, visible to the naked...

Astronomy quiz question: the most common nearby stars

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Astronomy 210 Quiz 5, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA If you surveyed only the nearest stars, the most common star...

Astronomy quiz archive: sun/spectra/star properties

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Astronomy 210 Quiz 5, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Section 70158, version 1 Exam code: quiz05GieH Section 7...

Physics quiz question: supersonic ping-pong ball vacuum cannon

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Physics 205A Quiz 4, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Cf. Giambattista/Richardson/Richardson, Physics, 2/e , Proble...

Physics quiz question: airplane trading altitude for speed

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Physics 205A Quiz 4, fall semester 2013 Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Cf. Giambattista/Richardson/Richardson, Physics, 2/e , Compre...
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