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TA Resources

GENERALLY HELPFUL HANDOUTS
  • Problem Solving 
  • Guide to Problem Solving 
  • Math cheat sheet/jargon pointers 
  • CGS cheat sheet
  • Formula Sheet (originally for AY4)
  • Beginning-of-term survey 
CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES
Teaching Library: Cabinet in ISB 356
  • UCSC Center for Teaching and Learning: Teaching Tips
  • UCSC Graduate Division's Teaching Resource page
  • UCSC Graduate Division's Teaching Handbook
  • UC Berkeley badgrads wiki
  • UCSC Astro Grads wiki
  • MIT's "The Torch or the Firehose" publication: a handbook on teaching recitation sections

DEMOS, MOVIES, PICTURES and STORIES
  • Incorporating estimation into astro classes 
  • Astro Demos
  • Animations links 
  • List of equipment in demo cabinet in ISB 356
Thanks to Professor Guha Thakurta for the following links:
  • Black Holes
  • Hubble movie of colliding galaxies
  • Globular clusters and satellite galaxies
  • Video of the universe by the American Museum of Natural History
  • IMAX movie of the Hubble repair mission
  • A pictorial tour of the Solar System
  • The Eight Planets
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • The Best of Hubble Space Telescope Pictures
  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • W. M. Keck Observatory
  • Carl Sagan's "Reflections on a Mote of Dust"   

For course specific teaching resources, as well as more general TA resources, contact the Head TA, Emily Cunningham, at eccunnin@ucsc.edu. The UCSC Astronomy Head TA is primarily a support resource for departmental teaching assistants. 

 
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