ESA and the Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) have been organizing training workshops for science teachers every year since 2009. Participants have the chance to learn about innovative tools and methods that use space science and astronomy to engage students in the sciences. In addition to networking with their peers from across Europe, participants have the opportunity to gain new skills that will enhance their teaching methods and refresh existing lessons. This community aims to bring
Much of the evolution of the universe can be described through the pull of gravity and push of pressure. Gravity condenses gas, it heats up, and if it can, it expands, and if it can’t, stars are formed. In this Hangout, we will consider the gas laws, and look at different kinds of nebulae. This community is part of the collection of communities devoted to the Inspiring Science Educaiton Hangout Series. Each community has an associated hangout where Dr. Pamela Gay, renowed astronomer and educator
A community to accompany the Hands on Astronomy conference held in Cardiff in April 2015. Conference Programme More information and links Updated delegate information
To participate in the ISE 2016 Observing Challenge, use the demonstrator below with your class before 30 June 2016. The scenario involves using Messier Bingo to become familar with astronomical objects, and then observe one of them with the LCOGT telescope. Teachers who successfully complete the scenario with their class (using the demonstrator with more than 10 students) will receive a poster of their observation. You can either: Join this ISE community, clone the demonstrator, and deliver it
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
This is a community for UK teachers within the Inspiring Science Education community. Here you can find ready-made lesson plans or share some of your own. If you're not already registered, then please register here. Lesson plans aim to effectively support all stages of the UK curricula. They provide an engaging and interactive atmosphere using interactive tools and web-based content. As a teacher you will be able to closely monitor the performance of your class as well as set homework or tasks
Learning from the Extremes is a European Union´s Horizon Framework Program for Preparatory Action - Increasing access to educational tools in areas and communities with low connectivity or access to technologies. The project addresses inequalities of access to digital education by enhancing inclusion and by reducing the digital gap suffered by school communities from remote areas with low connectivity, limited or no access to devices and digital educational tools and content. Learning from the
The main aim of the Summer School is to familiarise participants with the Open Schooling Approach that describes and implements at scale a process that facilitates the transformation of schools to innovative ecosystems, acting as shared sites of learning for which leaders, teachers, students and the local community share responsibility, over which they share authority, and from which they all benefit through the increase of their communities’ science capital and the development of responsible
The "Multiwavelength Universe" lesson plans allows you to explore the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum in the context of astronomical objects in a highly interactive environment. Students will learn how the appearance of objects changes with various wavelengths and the resulting different technologies that are used to cover these wavelengths. Depending on the time available, students will learn about the opacity of the atmosphere and can then proceed to design their own space telescope. Lesson
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
Welcome to OSOS community! This is the space in the portal that provides to the partners all the necessary material and means to: Get all the information and be familiarized with the features of the portal Support the partners and especially the National Coordinators on the efficient use of the portal services for the implementation of the project activities Facilitate the communication among the partners and especially with the technical team You can find here a list of useful material
Particle physics and the work of the Large Hadron Collider are very inspirational topics and students are curious about the ongoing research. Often, though, teachers do not feel they have the knowledge and background to be able to answer their students’ questions. The particle physics masterclass allows students, and teachers, to interact with the scientists and engineers working at the Large Hadron Collider, and gives them the opportunity to experience particle physics for themselves.
An ODS community dedicated to schools that already have or aspire to establishing an astronomical observatory at their school. Whether you have been using an observatory for years, or are in the process on setting-up one up, we would love to hear about the challenges you faced and the specification of the equipment you eventually decided on. So, please use this community to share ideas and offer advice to those teachers thinking of following in your footsteps.
In the SEISMO-LAB Summer School 2023, the participants will be introduced to the basics of seismology and the value of the studying of earthquakes for the science and for the community. Special emphasis will be given to the use of School Study Earthquake Network’s Data in class. This will empower participants to engage in innovative practices through personal and individualized support, in addition to the provision to the suite of supporting tools. Concurrently, there will be a focus on the
