The CfAO's Astronomy Course in COSMOS: Curriculum Design, Rationale, and Application
Abstract
From 2001 to 2007, COSMOS provided a teaching and outreach venue for the Center for Adaptive Optics Professional Development Program (CfAO PDP). COSMOS is a four-week residential mathematics and science summer program for high-school students organized by the University of California on four of its campuses. Two topical science courses comprised each COSMOS cluster. An astronomy course has always formed a basis for the CfAO PDP-affiliated cluster. The course included a variety of pedagogical techniques to address a diversity of learners and goals. We outline the astronomy course---lectures, activities, etc.---and provide the rationale for what was taught, how it was aught, and when it was taught.
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@article{arxiv.1011.0752,
title = {The CfAO's Astronomy Course in COSMOS: Curriculum Design, Rationale, and Application},
author = {Kathy L. Cooksey and Scott Seagroves and Jason Porter and Lynne Raschke and Scott Severson and Sasha Hinkley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0752},
year = {2010}
}
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12 pages, 2 figure, 1 table, to appear in ASP Conference Series 436, Learning from Inquiry in Practice, eds. L. Hunter & A. J. Metevier (San Francisco, CA: ASP)