Innovations in Inquiry-Based Laboratory Exercises for Non-Majors Astronomy Courses: Connecting Undergraduates with the Enterprise of Science

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Jan 2009

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #353.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.494

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Connecting Undergraduates to the Enterprise of Science (CUES) is an NSF-funded program which aims to help instructors towards inquiry based laboratory experiences for students. While many science instructors want to move away from the traditional cookbook laboratories, there are many challenges to executing such a change. The CUES program provides an opportunity for instructors to incorporate inquiry, using "minijournals". The basic idea behind the minijournal format is to present students with a simulated journal article about an experiment or investigation. The article outlines the question, methods used, and conclusions and suggests further scientific questions that might be of interest. The students are expected to devise their own experiments or investigations to answer said questions, and to produce their own paper/article describing it. In this way, the students will be engaged in inquiry-based science labs which encompass doing, thinking, and communicating, while the minijournal allows the instructor to contain lines of inquiry within the limits posed by existing resources.
Here we present both the rationale for and concept of using minijournals and specific examples of such laboratory exercises we are currently employing in our introductory (non-science majors) astronomy laboratory.
In addition, we explore the difficulties implementing such a technique, when the potential astronomy experiments available to students may be limited.

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