Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #147.05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
One key educational challenge we face is to increase the engagement of undergraduate non-science majors with the excitement of research and discovery in science. Astronomers well know that a night on a large telescope at a dark site is deeply transformative, as well as informative. At Boston University, we have the telescope and mountain, but how can real research involve more than a handful of students from a large, introductory, non-majors lecture-based course? We attempted to answer this question using the Fall 2010 Astronomy 102 ("The Astronomical Universe") non-majors offering as a test bed. Key components of our program were a field trip to the 1.8m Perkins telescope in Flagstaff, AZ for 12 students (and a dean), live video links between the 70+ students in Boston and the students at the telescope, small group projects, group presentations to the entire class, and funding from the National Science Foundation.
Partially supported by an NSF REU supplement to AST 09-07790 and time granted under the Boston University - Lowell Observatory Perkins Telescope partnership.
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