Session 96. Teaching Astronomy to Impact World Views

Special Session, Thursday, June 3, 2004, 2:00-3:30pm, 706

96.01 Do Worldviews Really Matter?

T. L. Duncan (Center for Science Education, Portland State University)

96.02 The Big Bang Happened Here: Cosmology For Non-Scientists

K. Coble (NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago and Adler Planetarium)

96.03 The Three Pillars for Poets

C. Tyler (Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO)

96.04 The Night Sky and Native American Worldviews

A. Venkatesan (NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder)