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Guidance Online for Astronomy Teachers (GOAT)

We envision this site as a repository for lesson plans and teaching related materials that have been designed and collected by astronomy graduate students at University of Wisconsin – Madison. Our main goal is to make TAing more effective, less time consuming, more interesting, and reduce the number of times that astronomy grad students reinvent the wheel. However, we’d also like this site to have a broader focus and include outreach activities, book reviews and recommendations, lab activities, and teaching research information. We are committed to making teaching a priority and becoming better teachers ourselves.

Go ahead and check out the lesson plans. We’ve tried to standardize the format so that contributions are easily understood and compared. If you’d like to submit a lesson plan, please read the How to Post section. If you aren’t an astronomy grad student here, you’ll need to contact us in order to make a submission. Unless otherwise stated, lesson plans have been designed to fill a 50 minute discussion section attended by ~20 students.