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AY 375 - Fall 2019: Twelfth Day Lesson Plan

Planetarium Education (50 min)

This activity is centered around the following Astronomy Education Review article.

(10 Minutes) Introduction and administration of planetarium priorities survey

A brief introduction to the history and current landscape of planetariums to stir the pot of the competing factors that go into public education of science. Recognize the finite time and energy available to execute on these goals by ranking them against one another. Static link to the survey forthcoming.

(15 Minutes) Lesson on instructional design lenses

The contents of the study form the content of this section. Introduce a vocabulary for the different types of priorities that instructors can be focused on. These lenses should not be ranked in any way, but rather laying out the different possible (and certainly overlapping) paths that designers of public education programs have to balance.

(5 Minutes) Writing Prompt

Have students write out individually responses to the following questions, both to spur discussion and to give the instructor enough time to assemble the results of the administered google survey.

(20 Minutes) Reveal results of our own survey, compare them to the frequency of coded responses in the study and open the floor to a discussion.

Discuss how students feel in the class about public outreach of science outside of a class, and give people an opportunity to share their answers with the class.

Teaching Statements & Teaching Portfolios (15 min)

(5 minutes) Individually, take a few minutes to answer the following prompts on a piece of paper. You can use this free writing exercise to help you write your statement later.

(10 minutes) What is a teaching statement and teaching portfolio?

Homework

  1. Draft a one-page, single-spaced statement of teaching philosophy. Bring a copy to class next week.