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JENAM 2010 Astronomy Education sessions |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
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JENAM 2010 (Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting) conferences and workshop will take place in Lisbon during the week of September 6 - 10.
It would be wonderful to have you here with us.
We are planning a GTTP (Galileo Teacher Training Program) session for one of the days of the conference. Beside this special training session there are 3 special sessions that might be of interest to you:
- SPS6 - New trends in Global Astronomy Education
- SPS7 - Education and Outreach after IYA2009
- SPS8 - Amateur and professional astronomers
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Professor of Physics, specialist of Interactive Learning, invited by EU-HOU |
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
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Alexander L. Rudolph, Professor of Physics at the California State Polytechnic University ("Cal Poly Pomona"), USA, has been invited in France by EU-HOU.
Prof. Rudolph is a specialist in Interactive Learning, using research to promote student understanding
in the science classroom.
He is visiting France invited at Paris Observatory by LERMA laboratory. He had fruitful discussions with EU-HOU Satff and many suggestions about the website and published exercises.
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Comenius training session in France |
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Monday, 28 June 2010 |
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In the context of the Lifelong Learning Programme, EU-HOU propose three European training sessions in Fance, at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. These sessions are published on the Comenius training database, reference number: FR-2010-314-003.
The main goal of this training is to re-awake the interest for science in the young generation with inquiry-based methods. Renewing of the teaching of science is fulfilled through astronomy as a well-established source of motivation, and through the use of new Information and Communication Technologies - ICT. Involving teachers in a variety of research-based astronomical projects, we will excite, enthuse and motivate them to teach science/technology/maths. The training is intended to enhance basic competencies of teachers and develop higher level skills and expertise, primarily in ICT, maths and physics area. The EU-HOU project will provide the opportunity for trained teachers to get involved in stimulating international collaborations and to enthuse their pupils to study sciences/technology/maths at a higher level.
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Secondary school pupils to get pictures of dwarf planets using remote Faulkes telescope |
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
Secondary school pupils at the Collège Monteil (Monistrol sur Loire, France) have succeeded in finding
the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres using a British robotic telescope, Faulkes.
Under the direction of their teacher, Mr. Debackere, the pupils were able to learn about astronomy and sky observations. During the year, pupils could use a Celestron telescope and a webcam modified for long exposure, offered by the EU-HOU as part of the French Operation Astro at school.
Shown on this picture is the school's animated gif of Ceres, the smallest
known dwarf planet in our Solar System, taken with a 5s exposure using
the R filter on Faulkes Telescope. Ceres is very obvious near the centre of the
image!
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Global Hands-On Universe & Galileo Teacher Training Program conference |
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Friday, 21 May 2010 |
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GHOU is one of the largest coordinated astronomy education networks in the world, and a pathfinder for Global Science Education: 5000 teachers joined
around the world in 2009!
The GHOU annual conference takes place this year in Germany. The first three
days (GTTP) will be training on the use of several new, great emerging
resources (the Universe Quest Game, GHOU activities -- Exo-planets!,
International Asteroid Search
Campaign!, Measuring the Expanding Universe from Supernovae!, etc.).
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