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 is a Community to support schools participating in the Eratosthenes experiment at Noon local Irish time on Tuesday 22nd September 2015. Weather not permitting (shadows not available!) in the Resource section below an outline of how to complete the experiment is also available. The Lesson Plan is well structured with lots of background information and will guide you through the steps of the experiment. STEPS TO FOLLOW 1. Find the time of your local noon at your location. Please use the web
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 scope of this community is to create a central point for all authors of the ISE Demonstrators, in order to train them in the use of the ISE Authoring Tool.
In this community all digital ISE-Demonstrators are available: Demonstrators show you how the the ISE pedagogical approach can be implemented in practice. You can use Demonstrators as they are or clone it and adapt it to your own requirements.
Winning entries of the Eratosthenes Experiment Photo Contest Dear participants in the 2015 Eratosthenes Experiment Photo Contest organized by Ellinogermaniki Agogi’s (EA) Research and Development Department as part of the Open Discovery Space (ODS) and Inspiring Science Education (ISE) projects. We are happy to announce the winners of this exciting world science educational event. Before proceeding with the results, I would like to remind you the background to all related contests and events
