#40 - What Makes the HRD So HaRD? - Astro in Non-Astro Courses, + 5 more [Paid Post]

TCA 11/29/22: More from IAU Shaw Conference: Deeper Look--Astro as a Gateway Topic in Math, Electronics, Physics; Connections--Grav. Wave Resources, Fulldome Planetarium Curriculum, News for Kids

Cover Photo - Learning Difficulties with the HRD

In This Issue:

• Cover Photo - What Makes the HRD So HaRD?

• Welcome to Issue 40!

• Deeper Look -
  IAU Shaw: Astronomy is Universal—The Gateway Topic
  - Constellations are Electrifying
  - Math on Earth or in Space (2 items)
  - Math On Other Worlds Beyond (2 items)

• Connections to the Sky
  - IAU Shaw: Gravitational Wave Resources
  - IAU Shaw: Astro News For Kids
  - IAU Shaw: A Full Dome Planetarium Curriculum

• The RAP Sheet: Research Abstracts for Practitioners
  - Extracting Information from the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram: An Eye-Tracking Study. (Cover Story)

• The Galactic Times InDepth Newsletter-Inbox Magazine
  

Welcome to The Classroom Astronomer Newsletter-Inbox Magazine #40!

I’d like to tout our own horns…..on Substack, The Classroom Astronomer comes up on searches as the #2 astronomy newsletter! The Galactic Times is #6!

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This issue continues our reports from the IAU Shaw Astronomy Education Conference, organized out of Heidelberg, Germany.

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Key websites: Homepage for The Classroom Astronomer, with its index to all Inbox Magazine issues’ contents, by celestial object, educational subject area, grade level or venue, and with complete Tables of Contents:

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Publisher -- Dr. Larry Krumenaker

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Deeper Look

IAU Shaw: Astronomy is Universal—The Gateway Topic

One of the themes of this year’s conference was that astronomy is more than just a science course, it is also a way to provide an educational framework for other subjects. You don’t have to just teach about constellations or exoplanets, you can teach something else that connects with them.

In this Deeper Looks column, there will be a (ahem) galaxy of reports of using astronomy topics as a gateway to teaching something else as well.