Its time to start researching how active learning can help our majors: an example on the star formation rates of galaxies
Abstract
As part of the Astronomy Majors Project (AMP) we have been developing active learning strategies to help astronomy majors develop more robust understandings of foundational ideas in astronomy. We have developed a new Lecture-Tutorial that actively engages students' learning in a sophomore majors course. This Lecture-Tutorial is designed to help students better understand how Hα is used to calculate an estimate for the star formation rate of galaxies, and how we can connect these ideas to the histories of galaxies. We will share details on the development and implementation of this new Lecture-Tutorial, including some of the key conceptual and reasoning difficulties that it addresses.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235
- Pub Date:
- January 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AAS...23535808P