Elementary Astronomy Laboratory
an interactive web-based laboratory class
taught by Dr. Kristen Miller, designed by Dr. Julia Kregenow
From the syllabus:
Course Objectives
The goals for this course are for you to
1. develop skills of recognizing and asking answerable research
questions
2. design and write clear step-by-step procedures
3. systematically collect data
4. perform and document analysis of those data
5. construct and articulat arguments from evidence
6. presenting data visually
To achieve these goals, we will use simple observations, software simulations, and online astronomical data sets and images to explore a number of astronomical phenomena.
Sample Past Syllabi:
Syllabus Welcome Page Fall 2017
and
Full Syllabus Fall 2017