Academic English Teacher (UNSW College). M.Ed (ACU on-line, ongoing). B.Ling.Sc (Macquarie Uni.). Dip. Lang. Spanish (University of Sydney). TESOL+CELTA (International House Sydney.) Film & TV cert. III (Sydney TAFE). Spanish speaking (University of Buenos Aires + 5 years' immersion). Pathways to Secondary Teaching Spanish (1) & English (2).
Friday, March 29, 2019
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Monday, March 25, 2019
Astronomy, Our Place in the Universe: Lab book (for MQuni)
Practical 8: Galaxy Classification Aim – To become familiar with the different “morphological” types of galaxies (spirals, ellipticals, barred spirals, irregulars etc). To see how galaxies are distributed according to type (are the different types equally common?). To observe features within galaxies (spiral arms, dust lanes, satellite galaxies etc).
Practical 9: Objects in our Galaxy Aim – To observe and describe as many distinct features of our Galaxy as you can. To appreciate the complexity and diversity of the components that constitute the Milky Way.
Practical 10: Small Magellanic Cloud Aim – To quantify the size of the Small Magellanic Cloud and observe various features of the SMC.
Practical 11: The Sky Aim – The aim of this exercise is to become familiar with the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, reproducing a portion of it, and compute the distance of Pleiades star cluster.
Practical 12: Exoplanet Hunting Aim – The aim of this exercise is for you to create a light curve from an exoplanet transit by conducting photometry measurements on telescope images from the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network.