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Welcome To... Heather's Physics and Astro Teaching Resources The (free, voluntary) Study Guide Website for Seeds' Foundations of Astronomy Copyright © 1996 - 1999 Heather L. Preston -- all rights reserved

Old Intro: The best figures in the Study Guides are in the "Chapters 19 - 26" guide -- that is what the guides will all eventually look like. The title of the course I taught in 1995/96 was: Introduction to Astronomy, Physics 129 and 130, at The College of Charleston. Text was Mike Seeds' book, "Foundations of Astronomy" 1994 Edition. I've written study guides (see below) for the entire text, and updated them this fall (1996) for Wadsworth Publishing's Seeds text (1997) website, which opened at the end of September. They are listed below by the range of chapters covered, and usually allow for four-or-more weeks' worth of material between tests. Equations are all on one line, and square roots are handled as (expression)^1/2. Figures are still being added, where appropriate. Watch this space! Comments are welcome.[-HLP]

• Study Guide, Chapters 1 through 4
• Study Guide, Chapters 5, 6, and 7
• Study Guide, Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11
• Study Guide, Chapters 12 through 14
• Study Guide, Chapters 15 through 18
• Study Guide, Chapters 19 through 26 (this last covers cosmology through the planets, but the division is not as weird as one might expect, since the cosmology chapter is almost stand-alone. In an ideal world, the preceding study guide would go through ch 19, but 15-18 took more class time than expected).

Other Astro Teaching Resources

There are a great many excellent Astronomy teaching resources already out there, so in a list below are a few links to that stuff.

The University of Washington, as usual, has an incredibly nifty online Hubble Lab, with S/W that reads cursor positions on digitized galaxy images from the POSS and a large collection of spectra for the sample galaxies. Give it a try! (Warning: images take some time to load, and are essential to the lab: use a fast machine)

Mount Wilson Observatory has a useful service that generates observing charts in postscript format, called StarMap. You'll need some positional information as input.

Links to Other People's Resource Lists

• Astronomy Instruction, with the web's fabulous Doug Ingram
• AstroEd page (UW with links to the world)
• University of Alabama's Bill Keel has some labs and other keen stuff, especially galaxy images.
• University of Oregon (Greg Bothun's dynamic program) has an amazing array of online labs and self-paced course materials!