CATALOG DESCRIPTION: (3 hour) This course is designed to acquaint the student with some of the problems encountered in teaching this subject at the secondary level.  A variety of instructional techniques will be used to introduce students to current curriculums in Astronomy.

INSTRUCTOR:
 

Dr. Joseph H. Jones
Office: 101 Rogers Hall                  234 H&NS	Office hours:  0910-1010 MTWR-H&NS 234 unless lab or planetarium show scheduled, or by appointment
Office phone: 864-1510	Planetarium phone (w/ voice mail):  864-1471           Observatory phone (w/ voice mail): 864-1470
E-mail: jjones@northgeorgia.edu	Web: apache.northgeorgia.edu/academic/sciences/physics/jones/joneshome/jjones.html

SECTIONS:

SECTION A (crn 773) 0730-0910 MTWR, H&NS 234 (Planetarium)
NOTE:  This course meets with ASTR1020.

METHOD OF EVALUATION:

The student will attend the Astr 1020 lecture course and write the four in-class exams for the content portion of Phys 7023.  50% of the Phys 7023 grade comes from the average exam grade.  Click here to see the Astr 1020 lecture sylabus.  25% of the Phys 7023 grade comes from development and presentation of a planetarium show.  (This may be in conjunction with other 7023 students.)  20% of the Phys 7023 grade comes from four (5% each) "extro-class" labs or exercises derived from the Astr 1020L lab.  Colors of Stars Lab, Hike Inn Lab (or other current semester "special lab"), Scale Model Solar System Walk and The Small Telescope Lab (modified).  Each of these extro-class labs should be accompanied with a short (~ 1 page) report detailing how the student might modifiy or use the extro-class lab when teaching in their particular grade level.  The remaining 5% comes from your choice of an observing project (3-color CCD image, deep sky CCD image, etc.) or Astronomical Topics News Media Log.  (See the instructor for details for each exercise or project.)

Letter grade as follows:

A = 90 to 100; B = 80 to 89; C = 70 to 79; D = 60 to 69; F < 60