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Introducing Astronomy

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We have developed lessons aimed at high-school-level students titled The Fundamentals of Galaxies^[1]. There are three modules, each with a link to a five question Kahoot! quiz to evaluate comprehension^[2].

• Module 1 covers the history of galaxies with the following learning objectives:
  • Describing what a galaxy is
  • Understanding the origin of the term "galaxy"
  • Describing the history of galaxies
  • Demonstrating how galaxies were discovered
• Module 2 covers the types of galaxies with the following learning objectives:
  • Understanding galaxy types
  • Describing the features for each type of galaxy
  • Demonstrating how new galaxies are classified
• Module 3 covers galaxy formation and organization with the following learning objectives:
  • Describing how galaxies form
  • Understanding how galaxies relate to the structure of the Universe

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1. Treuthardt, P., Hewitt, I. B., & Sharma, P. (2020, November 11). The Fundamentals of Galaxies, Online Learning Modules. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7299489 ↩︎

2. ODP, PDF, and PPTX versions of the learning modules are available for download at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7299489. ↩︎