This community brings together teachers who are using resources, virtual experiments and online labs from the fields of Astronomy and High Energy Physics (HEP). Among other activities, it offers access training, resources and to a network of robotic telescopes and the major CERN experiments, ATLAS and CMS. Transit of Mercury 2016 Live at: http://ustre.am/1vYJ6 The organisers of the recent projects IYA2009 - Shape of the Earth, ERATOSTHENES experiment and IYA2009 - Distance to the Moon and
Welcome to the Community for the Eratosthenes Experiment 2015-19 for the Measurement of the Earth's Circumference! For details on the event and the latest photo contest, please see here and here. Guidelines for participation STEPS TO FOLLOW Find the time of your local noon at your location. Please use the web-based NOAA Solar Calculator or Solar Calculator or the Stellarium software (a short guide for using the Stellarium software to calculate your local noon at your location can be found here)
This community will enable teachers, students and researchers involved in extended collaborative activities. It introducesthem to the field of science through the use of resources and tools bringing together a network of educational communities, eLearning tools and resources and relevant partners of the field. Through the Inspiring Science Education website and the activities organised by the partners, teachers can help students make their own scientific discoveries, witness and understand
I am the teacher Ciotlos Anghelina in Alba Iulia, Technical College Dorin Pavel, Romania, and wish to participate, the Eratosthenes experiment, from September 22, 2016. Latitude = 45..45152 Longitude = 23.40059, stick length: l = 1m shadow length: lu = 1,17m angle = 49.47946 Terra L = 36.635km Actual circumference = 40075km All the best!
The Open Science Resources (OSR) community enables you to access the finest digital collections in European science centres and museums, to follow educational pathways connecting objects tagged with semantic metadata and to enrich the contents provided with social tags of your own choice. The OSR community contains educational material in the form of educational content (images of exhibits and scientific instruments, videos, animations, exercises, graphs, links) and of educational pathways