Astronomy 180

Astronomy 180: Practical Observing

CfAO Educational Activities

Various classroom activities I have helped to design, and professional development workshops I have attended.

Previous courses

Astronomy 82: Stellar Evolution, Galaxies, and Cosmology

Astronomy 6: Cosmology: Our changing concepts of the universe

I was the Teaching Assistant for this course, which was taught by Prof. Ned Wright in Winter 2008. I led weekly discussion sections and three two-hour exam review sessions. On the whole, standard physical science problem-solving was eschewed in favor of more conceptual discussions of the course material. In addition, I regularly distributed handouts describing recent discoveries and advances in cosmology, and we discussed their significance and relevance to the course.

Discussion Syllabus