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Timberlake, Todd K. – Astronomy Education Review, 2013
This paper describes a series of activities in which students investigate and use the Ptolemaic, Copernican, and Tychonic models of planetary motion. The activities guide students through using open source software to discover important observational facts, learn the necessary vocabulary, understand the fundamental properties of different…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science History, Science Instruction, College Science