Telecourse Study Guide for Seeds/Backman's Horizons: Exploring the Universe, 13th - Softcover

Seeds, Michael; Backman, Dana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 128508716X ISBN 13: 9781285087160

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2013

Synopsis

The Telecourse Student Guide accompanies Mike Seeds', Dana Backman's, and Michele Montgomery's best-selling HORIZONS HYBRID: EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE, Thirteenth Edition. This book engages students by focusing on two central questions: "How Do We Know?" which emphasizes the role of evidence in the scientific process, providing insights into how science works; and "What Are We?" which highlights our place as planet dwellers in an evolving universe, guiding students to ask questions about where we came from and how we formed a perspective that the study of astronomy is uniquely positioned to emphasize.

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About the Authors

Mike Seeds was a professor of physics and astronomy at Franklin and Marshall College (F&M) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1970 until his retirement in 2001. In 1989 he received F&M College’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Mike’s love for the history of astronomy led him to create upper-level courses on archeoastronomy and on the Copernican Revolution (“Changing Concepts of the Universe”). His research interests focused on variable stars and automation of astronomical telescopes. Mike is coauthor with Dana Backman of FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, 14th Edition (2019); STARS AND GALXIES, 10th Edition (2019); THE SOLAR SYSTEM, 10th Edition (2019); and ASTRO, 3rd Edition (2018), all published by Cengage. He was senior consultant for creation of the 20-episode telecourse accompanying his book HORIZONS: EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE.

Dana Backman taught with Mike Seeds in the physics and astronomy department at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1991 until 2003. He invented and taught a course titled “Life in the Universe” in F&M’s interdisciplinary foundations program. Dana has also taught introductory solar system astronomy at Santa Clara University, plus introductory courses on astronomy, astrobiology, cosmology and the science of climate change in Stanford University’s continuing studies program. His research interests focused on infrared observations of planetary system formation and evolution of the solar system’s Kuiper belt. Dana is employed by the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, as lead for the Astronomy Activation Ambassadors teacher professional development program at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Dana is coauthor with Mike Seeds of FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, 14th Edition (2019); STARS AND GALAXIES, 10th Edition (2019); THE SOLAR SYSTEM, 10th Edition (2019); and ASTRO, 3rd Edition (2018), all published by Cengage.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 128508716X
• ISBN 13: 9781285087160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352