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Activity naming scheme: ActivityCCNN-Title, where CC is the chapter number and NN is the sequential number for that activity within its chapter. The goal is to do the activities in numerical order.
I can currently generate instructor versions of activities. I try to stabilize the student versions (available here) before I generate instructor versions. The student versions of the presentations will eventually likely become written material for the LCTTA text.
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LCTTA Outline (Chapters 1 and 2 only)
Chapter 1 Homework Questions
Chapter 2 Homework Questions
Chapter 3 Homework Questions
First Day
First Day (alternate)
First Day (alternate)
First Day (alternate)
First Day (alternate)
What do you know?
Taking Your First Steps
For use with Activity0103
Frameworks
Logical Fallacies
Scientific Validity
Flash shadow simulator
Observing A Stick's Shadow 1
Observing A Stick's Shadow 2
Observing A Stick's Shadow 3
Observing A Stick's Shadow 4
Extreme Shadows
Eratosthenes And Scientific Models
Observing The Sky
Sun's Annual And Daily Motions
Lunar Illumination
Description of LCTTA project
Points against LCTTA
Student comments on LCTTA
Defining scientific literacy
Problematic scientific language
Glossary of precise scientific terms
Alphabetized Glossary
Overview of critical thinking
Introduction to logical fallacies
How to detect baloney