DOCUMENT RESUME ED 482 735 SE 068 424 AUTHOR Fraknoi, Andrew, Ed.; Schatz, Dennis, Ed. TITLE El Universo a Sus Pies: Actividades y Recursos para Astronomia (Universe at Your Fingertips: An Astronomy Activity and Resource Notebook). INSTITUTION Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA. SPONS AGENCY National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. ISBN ISBN-1-58381-199-0 PUB DATE 2002-00-00 NOTE 457p.; For English version, see SE 058 359. CONTRACT ESI-990-18922 AVAILABLE FROM PROJECT ASTRO, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112. Tel: 415-337-1100; Fax: 415-337-5205; e-mail:
[email protected]; Web site: http://www.astrosociety.org. PUB TYPE Books (010) Reports Descriptive (141) LANGUAGE Spanish EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC19 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Astronomy; Earth Science; Elementary Secondary Education; Interdisciplinary Approach; Lesson Plans; *Science Activities; *Science Curriculum; Space Sciences; Teaching Guides; Units of Study ABSTRACT The goal of this resource notebook is to provide activities selected by astronomers and classroom teachers, comprehensive resource lists and bibliographies, background material on astronomical topics, and teaching ideas from experienced astronomy educators. Activities are grouped into several major areas of study in astronomy including lunar phases and eclipses, the sun and the seasons, the planets, the scale of the solar system, comets and meteors, star-finding and constellations, stars, galaxies and the universe, space exploration and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), tools of the astronomer, debunking pseudoscience, and astronomy in different cultures. An extensive glossary and a section that provides interdisciplinary teaching ideas are included.(DDR) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the ori inal document.