TA Resources

• Problem Solving 
• Guide to Problem Solving 
• Math cheat sheet/jargon pointers 
• CGS cheat sheet
• Formula Sheet (originally for AY4)
• Beginning-of-term survey 

• 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

• Incorporating estimation into astro classes 
• Astro Demos
• Animations links 
• List of equipment in demo cabinet in ISB 356

• 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.