Open source astronomy lab manual, including 21 labs, 6 instructor manuals, a sample lab report, and a sample lab grading rubric. Intended for 100-level non-majors astronomy lab courses, but can also be used with modifications at other levels.

Google Docs: https://bit.ly/Astronomy-Lab-Manual
PDF: https://bit.ly/Astronomy-Lab-Manual-PDF

This video segment produced for Teachers' Domain features a time-lapse video of clouds forming, changing, and moving across the sky.

This brief video segment produced for Teachers' Domain features time-lapse video of a sunrise and a sunset.

This video segment adapted from NOVA follows the clean-up effort after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska. Also featured is a marsh where an oil spill occurred 20 years earlier; analysis suggests that environmental damage may last for decades.

This Ology website for kids focuses on Astronomy. It includes activities, things to make, quizzes, interviews with working scientists, and more to help kids learn about Astronomy.

This humorous OLogy article introduces kids to the Sun. The big star answers 15 questions, including: Your agent told me that you're the biggest star in the universe. Is that true? I know you star types tend to be touchy about age, but how old are you? Actually, I'm curious to know how stars begin. What's your story? Let's turn to a delicate subject. How do stars die? In Hollywood, I meet a lot of people filled with hot air. What gases are inside you?

This Special Collection contains resources to inform your planetarium experience and help you explore the ideas introduced in the Space Show. Resources include articles, interactives, and activities that explain how collisions take place throughout the universe and why understanding them is important.

A topically arranged list of openly available Astronomy teaching resources, designed to enrich classroom/lecture experiences or to provide to students for their own exploration. Each resource includes a link, baseline licensing/usage guidelines, and alignment to topics and OpenStax Astronomy textbook chapters. Compiled by Lauren Woolsey, Adam VanDyke, and Robert Wagner.

This document contains links to a set of Video Lectures I have created for the second edition of OpenStax Astronomy. I have previously loaded a set from about five years ago - these have been updated to include many updates and discoveries that have occurred over the past five years. The document contains links to each individual lecture as well as a link to the complete YouTube playlist for these videos and a link to the Google Drive that contains the lecture slides in PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, and pdf formats.

Lecture slides have been updated to include alt-text for all images used. Lecture Videos have all be captioned with captions reviewed and updated by me before loading these to YouTube.

All materials are openly licensed and released under a CC-BY license. I hope that others may find these useful. Do feel free to contact me if there are any questions.

These data sets include astronomical constants, physical and orbital data for the planets, selected moons, future total solar eclipses, and related data regarding nearby stars, chemical elements, and constellations.

This document is an attempt to correlate the free OpenStax Astronomy textbook and several other resources including lecture tutorials and lab activities. Below is a list of the items in the correlation followed by a chapter breakdown of the text and where one of the resources could be used.

This is a list of video lectures that I have created for an online class that I teach. These are lectures from each of the 30 chapters in the OpenStax textbook. The lectures generally run between 10 and 20 minutes and I have created 2-4 per chapter. The links are all to videos loaded to YouTube and are all captioned (edited by me, not YouTube auto captioning). Images were obtained from Wikimedia Commons and were limited to those in the public domain or under a CC license and are credited in the footer of each slide.

Feel free to use any that you find useful or provide the list to students who may want to review the materials.

For anyone interested, I can provide access to the lecture slides as well so that they could be modified to fit your specific requirements. You can contact me directly at: rmwagner@hacc.edu

This resource has been updated to a full list of 99 lectures covering all 30 chapters in the book.

These are files that I have created for each chapter of the OpenStax Astronomy textbook. They are my summary of the chapter in outline/question form. I suggest that my students use these to review each chapter and the material in it that I feel to be most important.
The files are provide through the link in Pages, Word and pdf format.
Please feel free to use/modify any of these as you feel works best in your class.

These are a set of lecture slide that I have created for the OpenStax astronomy textbook. For each chapter, there are between 2 and 4 sets of slides broken down into topics following the flow of the chapter. In each case, the slides come in three formats: Keynote, PowerPoint and pdf. Note that the slides were created using Keynote so there may be some minor formatting issues in the PowerPoint versions.

Please feel free to use/modify any of these as you find useful for your classes.

The purpose of this resource is to observe seasonal migration patterns, feeding habits, and nesting behavior of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) in North and Central America. All students will learn about hummingbird natural history and ecology. Students will learn how to identify and age male and female Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and to observe migration and feeding behavior. Students will learn how to make connections among hummingbird behavior and weather, climate, food availability, seasonality, photoperiod (day length), and other environmental factors.

Learn Motion of Earth, Sun, Moon & Satellites in Orbit : Astronomical Time Standards and Time Conversions, Positional Astronomy - earth orbit around sun, Position of Sun on Celestial Sphere, Position of Earth on Celestial Sphere, Satellites Orbit Elements - ephemeris, keplerian elements, state vectors, Satellites Motion around Earth - orbital & positional parameters, Satellite Pass for Earth Station - prediction of ground trace are addressed.

Against the backdrop of the devastating 1930's Dust Bowl, this video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA profiles an organic farmer and the techniques he uses to conserve topsoil.

This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the origin of the elements and how scientists use unique element profiles to identify supernova types.

This video segment adapted from NOVA follows the Apollo 15 astronauts as they collect samples of ancient rock from the Moon's crust, whose discovery helps lead to a radical new theory about the Moon's origin.