Starry Night College Browser-Based Student Edition (1 User)
Why Starry Night College?
Starry Night College contains a correlated higher education module including 45 embedded exercises joined to hundreds of customized simulations. Starry Night College helps you teach a more satisfying course by making it easy for your students to visually grasp the concepts of astronomy.
Important Advantages of Starry Night College
- No need to update software. You are always using the latest version every time you login.
- Easier installation and maintenance.
- Works over the internet with a modern web browser.
- Accessible on most devices, including Desktop Computers, iPads, Chromebooks, and Tablets.
What Makes Starry Night College Great!
- Teachable Moments feature keeps content fresh and relevant by providing educators with auto updates of new lessons, exercises, simulations, and phenomena!
- Built-in Lesson plans correlated to state and national standards that meet curriculum needs
- Accurate visualizations and simulations that allow students to make precise observations of Moon phases, motions of the Sun and planets, seasons, eclipses and much more
- Interactive computer exercises and hands-on activities that encourage questioning, experimentation and exploration and accommodate diverse learning styles Pre- and post-assessment resources with recommendations for improved student performance
- Flexible teaching models for easy adaptation to pacing and classroom needs
- Opportunities to develop key skills: observation, data collection, analytical thinking and discovery
- Extensions that connect to topics in math, physics, language arts, social studies and technology
The Latest Innovations
- Exercises have been enhanced with Guiding Questions, Key Concepts, Did You Know's, and dozens of new images to help illustrate phenomena
- Expanded asteroid catalog with highlighted/highlightable families and groups
- Analemma can now be drawn on a planets surface
- Exclusive Extragalactic 3D Database includes over 100,000 galaxies encompassing over 1 billion lights years of space
- Stunning new user interface with Search, locates sky objects, and more
- New highly detailed surface textures of planets and major moons
- Restyled SkyGuide with updated tours and media
- Updated Messier catalog with new visually stunning images for star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies
Worksheets
Topics Covered
- Celestial sphere
- Coordinate systems
- Lunar and solar eclipses
- Analemma
- Precession and nutation
- Dwarf planets
- Retrograde motion
- Asteroids and comets
- Constellations
- Stellar parallax
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- Redshift and the expansion of the universe
- And much more!
License
Starry Night College operates for one year.
For questions, please contact us per the below:
- Call: 1-866-688-4175 ext 1
- Email: education@simcur.com
- Web: Contact Us Form
