Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side.
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Classroom Activities on Astronomy
These classroom astronomy activities, which I either created or re-formulated, are appropriate for a range of grades. People have used them in middle-school classrooms, high school elective programs, and college Astronomy 101 labs. Feel free to adapt them to the level of your audience. (If you make copies, we do ask the you leave the information about who wrote and published them intact.) Included are activities about future tourism and where tourists might want to go, debunking astrology, rethinking the constellations, how high up space begins, and more.
Where Will Bill Gates’ Great Great Grand-Daughter Go For Her Honeymoon: The Cosmic Tourist Sights Activity
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2009007
Cosmic Calendar [imagining the scale of the history of the universe]
https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/209270e9-db28-455c-85cc-c4f29f1fa349
Family Heroes: Should Uncle Fred be in the Sky? [re-thinking constellation stories, for families]:
http://www-tc.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/pdfs/family_heros.pdf
Finding Your Way to Mars, Pennsylvania: An Astronomy and Geography Activity:
http://www.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/pdfs/geography_astronomy_activity.pdf
How High Up is Space (thinking about where space begins and modeling the scale):
http://www.astrosociety.org/edu/activities/I11_How_High_Space.pdf
A Flag for Your Planet (design a flag appropriate for each planet):
https://www.fraknoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/M9-Flag-for-Your-Planet.pdf
Picture an Astronomer Activity (good first activity with younger classes or groups):
https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/fdee92e4-924a-4bd4-ad0d-1b73182aec51
Did We Actually Land on the Moon? (Activity and Symposium):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268895007_Did_We_Actually_Land_on_the_Moon_An_Activity_and_Symposium
Sky Heroes: Reinventing the Constellations (for classrooms):
http://www-tc.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/pdfs/Sky_Heroes.pdf
Starry Lives, Starry Skies: Observing Different Stages in Stellar Evolution:
http://www-tc.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/pdfs/starry_lives_starry_skies.pdf
Testing Astrology Activities:
https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/b93fa8d7-4dc5-4372-9270-feacd73ac56d
Who Speaks for Earth (activity about replying to a SETI message):
The family-oriented games we created for the Family ASTRO project are available from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific at:
https://myasp.astrosociety.org/products/familyastro
Many of my activities are collected in The Universe at Your Fingertips 2.0, a DVD-ROM from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific:
https://myasp.astrosociety.org/products/DV122/theuniverseatyourfingertips20dvdrom
Classroom Activities on Astronomy - Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources