AstroCappella A Musical Exploration of the Universe. Activities and Information To Accompany the AstroCappella CD. Grades 7-12
AstroCappella combines the love of music with the love of astronomy. The booklet contains hands-on activities that can be done in the classroom coupled with rocking, high-energy, professionally recorded and produced songs written and performed by an established vocal band. The lesson plans help students learn how convection works, how radio telescopes work, how a payload landing is protected on another planet, and what scientists learn by looking for x-rays from the skies. Students build and test a type of communication system called a parabolic dish receiver, demonstrate the Doppler effect, model the preparation needed for a soft landing on a planet or object in space, learn about the technique known as sampling, examine convection in a bowl of soup, and learn about high energy astronomy. AstroCapella song lyrics are included. (DDR)
Microform, English, 1998
Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, [Place of publication not identified], 1998