Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy

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• Collaborative learning, inquiry-based activities engage students.
• The tutorials are based on educational research and have been extensively classroom tested.
• A structured series of questions is designed to prompt students to use reasoning rather than memorization.
• Lecture-Tutorials address areas most requested by users and reviewers: Greenhouse Effect; Dark Matter; Making Sense of the Universe and Expansion; Hubble’s Law; Expansion, Lookback Times, and Distances; and The Big Bang

Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy provides a collection of collaborative learning, inquiry-based activities for use in introductory astronomy courses. These activities were created using educational research and designed to lead you to deeper, more complete understanding through a series of structured questions. The questions prompt you to use reasoning to identify and correct misconceptions. All content has been extensively field tested and responds to reviewer demand, numerous interviews and nationally conducted workshops.