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Astronomy for Educators provides new and accomplished K-12 instructors with concepts and projects for low-cost, high-impact STEM classroom instruction that is built around the National Academies National Research Council's K-12 Framework for Science Education.

Table of Contents

• Unit 1: Starting our Journey of Discovery
• Unit 2: Lunar Phases - A Simple Scientific Model
• Unit 3: Modeling Earth and Moon Together
• Unit 4: Measuring Time in the Sky
• Unit 5: Measuring and Mapping the Sky
• Unit 6: Exploring Gravity
• Unit 7: Proving the Heliocentric Model Correct
• Unit 8: Understanding Big Numbers - Size and Scale in our Solar System
• Unit 9: Orbital Dynamics - Planets and Moons in Motion
• Unit 10: War of the Worlds - How Impacts Build Planets
• Unit 11: The Four Seasons - Two Competing Models
• Unit 12: Safely Observing the Sun
• unit 13: Solar and Lunar Eclipses

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