AstroJourneys – FHOU resources

See a list of Michel and Suzanne Faye’s resources here

Human Orrery : https://elearning.aristarchusproject.eu/ (need to create your profile, and keep track of the password, then you will have access to all sequences and tutorials) — link to get ready to use PDF of Orreries, and to create new ones… .see below for a « journey » with the Orrery

Exoplanet by transit : https://astroedu.iau.org/en/activities/can-you-find-the-exoplanet/

Exoplanet by radial velocity : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aogDGFRy27QZi9M9P59f_a1U1HXa98eI/view?usp=drive_link

Mass of the black hole – Kepler laws : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M1mLV47Ul58n3FTMstmW-i8U6XSgo54T/view?usp=drive_link

*** Human Orrery

The table below shows a proposed “journey” (“astrojourneys”) on the Orrery. Each line corresponds to a one-hour session, with the concepts covered in each cycle, links to the “Big Ideas in Astronomy,” and links to other resources. The cycles correspond to the French educational system: Cycle 2-3 (ages 7-11), Cycle 4 (ages 12-14), and Lycée (ages 15-18).

Session	Cycle 2-3 and up	Cycle 4 and up	High school	Big Ideas	Supplements
Discovery	SS Objects Numeracy Choreography	scales		7 ; 1.3	Direct observation + stellarium
Day/Night + Seasons	Spatial and temporal reference	Reference frame		1.4 ; 2
Birthday	Temporal reference, unit of time	Proportionality		1.4 ; 2
Shape of orbits (Kepler’s 1st relation)	Circle or ellipse; measurements (cycle 3 and above)	Modelling	Uncertainties	4	Black hole
Speed	Trajectories (cycle 3 and up)	Measurement and proportionality	Acceleration, force of gravity	4.5	Black hole
Kepler’s 2nd relation (areas)	Area measurement (cycle 3 and up)	Modelling	Uncertainties	4
Kepler’s 3rd relation (T, a and M)		Measurement and Graphs, Power of 10		4	Black holes and exoplanets
Shooting stars	Time and space			7 ; 2
Mars retrograde	Trajectory and choreography (cycle 3 and up)	Reference
Construction	Enlargement	Proportionality	Homothety