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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Similarly in schools, we put a lot of focus on giving all students the same thing (equality), and perhaps not enough on giving each student what they need (equity). In Avashia’s’s class, the focus was equally on what those enterprising entrepreneurs built, on what was created and what was lost.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

I want the students to do something historical, obviously—depict an event or person, perhaps—but I understand that not everyone is equally creative in the arts. Along with many other members of the astronomy educators community, Newbury used to include an astronomy picture of the day from NASA as students came into class.

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Women In Astronomy

STEMe

Wake Forest, NC Throughout history, women have defied societal barriers and prejudices to make groundbreaking contributions to astronomy and space exploration. Her groundbreaking work Within the realm of space exploration, the contributions of women have been equally significant.

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Spring STEM Guide

How to STEM

It’s all about celebrating women’s achievements, raising awareness against bias and taking action for equality. International Astronomy Day (7th May). International Astronomy Day is a worldwide event which is observed annually on the 7th May. International Women’s Day (8th March).

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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

Futurum

LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). PROFESSOR RAJA GUHATHAKURTA Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California Santa Cruz, USA. . Amanda talks about her astronomy work to a class of school students over Skype. SUPERNOVA – the explosion of a star.

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Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

Here’s the astro position of the Sun (in local horizon coordinates) at the time and place of maximum eclipse: And here now is the almost-exactly-equal result for the Moon: What will it actually look like in the sky? But what about the actual positions in the sky?

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Each of them has already earned at least 45 college credits—equal to about three semesters—and desires to complete a degree. It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program.

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