Some Useful links & Resources

Open sources textbooks shared during TYC meetings:

• • Exploring Physical Phenomena: What Happens When Light from the Sun Shines on the Earth? by Emily van Zee and Elizabeth Gire https://open.oregonstate.education/physicsforteachers/

  • Spiral Physics (Paul D’Alessandris):

    • • Basic info:https://www.compadre.org/precollege/items/detail.cfm?ID=5666 

      • Textbooks for algebra-based & calculus-based, including labs: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oulpsaytsjxvhzh/AADt7uvQWqNgOXOz5B-YrQXba?dl=0

  • Parallel Pedagogy (Pete Schwartz - pschwart@calpoly.edu)

    • • Basic info: http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/parallel-pedagogy/

      • Videos developed for calculus- & algebra-based courses: https://www.youtube.com/user/pvs242ful/videos 

      • Contact Pete Schwartz for a link to PlayPosit (https://www.playposit.com/) [videos with embedded questions]. 

      • Video demonstrations, very brief, with no explanation of physics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp_v2L0Yv-cWEapQj-Ro8k7I2jIicq_XK

      • Textbook for calculus-based (Schwartz): http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/textbook---mechanics-in-parallel/

      • Textbook for algebra-based (Schwartz): http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/text-for-introductory-college-parallel-physics/

      • Textbook for conceptual (Stocker & Schwartz): http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/Physics-in-Four-Part-Harmony-Full-Text-2019.pdf

  • “Physics in Four-Part Harmony 2020” textbook for conceptual or algebra-based (Stocker): http://sharedcurriculum.peteschwartz.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/Physics-in-Four-Part-Harmony-2020-reduced.pdf

    • • Online homework for “Four-Part Harmony 2020”: https://www.myopenmath.com/

      • Course ID: 77520

      • Course name: Physics in Four-Part Harmony 2020

      • Enrollment key: 4PH2020 (or search the library for questions with a label that includes “4PH2020”)

      • Spiral-bound, color copies of “Four-Part Harmony 2020”: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/dean-a-stocker/physics/paperback/product-4jv72m.html

      • Contact Dean Stocker (dean.stocker@uc.edu) for the LaTeX source code for “Four-Part Harmony 2020.”

      • Much of the information above on open source textbooks was initially compiled by Dean Stocker here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1olYyMe2KXSlmcklSoqAZ3XtZIyB_Rf1gBt_uiB1O9i8/edit?usp=sharing

  • "INTRODUCING NOETHER’S THEOREM IN CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS" (Joe Heafner): https://tensortime.sticksandshadows.net/archives/495

• https://physicslearning2.colorado.edu/pira/

• https://www.physics.uci.edu/~demos/mechanics.html

• http://demoroom.physics.ncsu.edu/tapl/

• Series of videos by Frank Cascarano (Foothill College): these are very good classroom demonstration videos.

• Gravity: drop tower physics by Toby Dittrich

• Video demonstrations connected to Dean Stocker (dean.stocker@uc.edu) instructions (see his textbook under Books): "very brief, with no explanation of physics": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp_v2L0Yv-cWEapQj-Ro8k7I2jIicq_XK

• Videos developed for calculus- & algebra-based courses: https://www.youtube.com/user/pvs242ful/videos 

• • The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project, Online Labs for Introductory Level Astronomy: https://astro.unl.edu/naap/

  • Organization Sponsored Astronomy:

    • • Control your own robotic telescope and take a picture: https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/

      • Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Stellar spectra: http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/proj/basic/spectraltypes/stellarspectra.asp

      • Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Types of Galaxies: http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/proj/basic/galaxies/classification.asp 

      • Crowd sourced astronomy projects: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects?discipline=astronomy&page=1&status=live

      • Activities using Solar and Heliospheric Observatory data/images: https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/classroom/for_students.html

      • Very comprehensive list of pencil/paper activities (Grade levels skews to a young audience, but can be modified for college courses): https://www.nasa.gov/stem-ed-resources/yoss-real-world-math.html

      • Compilation of classroom activities (younger audience): https://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/index.html

      • Compilation of classroom activities (younger audience): http://newhorizons.jhuapl.edu/Learn/Activities.php

  • DYI Astronomy:

    • • Sundial: https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/how-to-make-a-sundial/

      • Planisphere: https://in-the-sky.org/planisphere/index.php

      • Astrolabe: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/activity_07.html

      • Moon Calendar: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-a-moon-phases-calendar-and-calculator/

      • Build Your Own (Paper) Spitzer Space Telescope: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/explore/24-Models

      • Make Your Own Compass: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/for_fun/MakeyourownCompass.pdf

      • Additional Activities: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/index.html

Please also check other Astronomy related posts under "Resources shared during zoom meetings", and once inside that link, also check "Shared labs".