Voyages to the Planets - Textbook Only Author:Andrew Fraknoi Andrew Fraknoi is the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College near San Francisco and an Educational Consultant for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (where he directs Project ASTRO, a national program to bring astronomers into elementary and junior high school classrooms). From 1978 to 1992 he was Executive Director of the So... more »ciety, as well as Editor of Mercury Magazine and the Universe in the Classroom Newsletter. He has taught astronomy and physics at San Francisco State University, Canada College, and the University of California Extension Division. He is author of The Universe in the Classroom, co-author of Effective Astronomy Teaching and Student Reasoning Ability, and scientific editor of The Planets and The Universe, two collections of science and science fiction. For five years he was the lead author of a nationally syndicated newspaper column on astronomy, and he appears regularly on radio and television explaining astronomical developments (most recently as astronomy correspondent for Weekend All Things Considered.) In addition, he has organized three national symposia on teaching introductory astronomy at the college level, and over 20 national workshops on improving the way astronomy is taught in earlier grades. He has received the Annenberg Foundation Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Klumpke-Roberts Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his contributions to the public understanding of astronomy. Asteroid 4859 was named Asteroid Fraknoi in 1992 in recognition of his work in astronomy education.« less