an astronomy masterclass（一位天文学来说）.docVIP

The Astronomy Master class – Speakers Notes – v1.2 Introduction The Astronomy master class originated at Hitchin Girls School in 2005 and has run as 6 two hour sessions for able year 10 students during each subsequent winter. The Prezi is a tool that was written to give a backdrop to the lecture style presentations we used in the first half of each session (the second half of the evening was used to (hopefully) look at some stars – or for a suitable indoor activity in the likelihood of cloudy/rainy/snowy weather.) The speaker’s notes that follow are my attempt to put down on paper an explanation to the trail of thought throughout the prezi. It is not my intention to write a full description of everything – more to explain how and why the path follows the route it does and to explain some of the more strange pictures and videos included in the prezi. Hopefully there should be enough detail within these notes for the master class to be used successfully at many other institutions and/or in class teaching @ KS4 and 5. The master class prezi can be downloaded as a 240MB zip file from /shared/aqnk3lvr09 Andrew Jackson – February 2010 a.j@ Session 1 – It’s full of stars The title of this first session is pulled from the last line of 2001: a space odyssey and its main aim is to introduce students to practical astronomy (hopefully they will get to do some) and to teach them how to use telescopes safely and correctly. This is the shortest of the “lectures” as it is designed to leave some time for students to practically use scopes within the confines of a lab, or hopefully outside looking at stars. The basic flow is as follows The story of Hans Lippershey and how and why Galileo is incorrectly remembered as its inventor /cs/basics/a/spacefaq12.htm /wiki/Hans_Lippershey A brief introduction to the mechanism of two lenses – I often get smaller groups playing with pairs of lenses and/or get them to look down the barrel of a large reflecting telescope such as a Meade lx200