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Starry Night College PC/Mac Edition v7 (Student Download)

Starry Night College PC/Mac Edition v7 (Student Download)

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Product Description

This is a standalone student companion to Starry Night College (Professor Edition). Use it with your introductory astronomy textbook or on its own.

Available immediately upon purchase as a digital download, this product requires a 4-digit referral code given to you by your teacher.

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.

    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

        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! 
        Requirements:

        Windows 7 or higher / Macintosh OS X 10.12+. 1GHz or higher processor, 1 GB RAM and 4 GB of hard disk space. 128 MB OpenGL 1.4 capable graphics card.

        Have a Chromebook or otherwise need to load Starry Night in your web browser rather than installing it on your laptop/desktop?  Please visit the below URL to purchase the browser-based version instead of this installation version (use the same referral code provided by your instructor):

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