Welcome to the Change-agents' community! It is addressed to the teachers who are acting as change-agents for their schools, as well as to other actors who are interested in school leadership, school development and innovation. The change-agents are pioneering teachers who: take initiatives in order to implement innovative practices that aim to have long-term effect on the development of the school as a whole. Develop a strategy for involving and disseminating the results of innovative practices
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
This community is aimed at providing information to the experts on special issues and project activities of their interest. A brief description about this community where you can share, comment, inform, etc. SEARCH COMMUNITY RESOURCES: Using the "Educational Content", you can share your initial ideas, wich will be updating as they are gradually developing into fuller scenarios, formulating them using the 'Lesson Plans' or 'Learning Scenarios'. GROUPS: It is possible to create sub-groups to
The GreeNΕΤ network aims to address the increasing need to develop an integrated approach to the teaching of environmental science. More specifically, by collecting ground-breaking initiatives in the area of environmental education and green careers counseling, GreeNET aims to disseminate and inspire relevant good practices in the school sector. This community aims to bring the resources created and collected by the GreeNET partners to the UK school audience, and to provide a platform where
A community to accompany the Hands on Astronomy conference held in Cardiff in April 2015. Conference Programme More information and links Updated delegate information
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
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.
