You can now download Meet our Neighbours! activities & resources through AstroEDU platform.
astroEDU is an open-access platform for peer-reviewed astronomy education activities.
You can find “Meet our Neighbour: the Sun” activity on AstroEDU here.
A huge thank you from “Meet our Neighbours!” team to teacher Luminita Chicinas from Inspectoratul Scolar Judetean Cluj in Romania. Here are some photos of the activity with secondary school pupils.
A huge thank you from “Meet our Neighbours!” team to teacher Sinead McGleenon from St. Malachy’s Primary School in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Here are some of the great tactile images the children built and that they shared with us!
The conference “Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2013” (CAP2013) took place in Warsaw, Poland, from 14 to 18 October 2013. Meet our Neighbours! was presented to the international community of astronomy communication experts during the “Non-traditional Audiences and Methods” session.
During the UNAWE Educational Resources Fair, a fair showcasing a selection educational resources from around the world at EU Universe Awareness Workshop 2013 the award for most popular resource, as voted by participants, was “Meet our Neighbours!” and our project won an Explore Scientific AR102 UNAWE Edition Telescope.
Check more info on the “Highlights of the EU Universe Awareness Workshop 2013” here.
The EU Universe Awareness International Workshop 2013 gathered from the 7 to 11 of October, in House of Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, a group of educators, teachers, astronomers and experts, to share ideas, techniques and resources. On the 7th of October, during the Educational Resources Fair with Children, “Meet our Neighbours!” resources were showcased altogether with a selection of other educational resources from around the world.
Meet our Neighbours! was present during the European Planetary Science Congress in London, from 8 to 13 September, 2013 at the University College London. Our project had the support of the Europlanet Funding Scheme for 2013, so that NUCLIO – Núcleo Interativo de Astronomia, Portugal could develop and implement this project around the world.
Meet our Neighbours! presented at the Discover the COSMOS consortium and Global Hands-On Universe network international conference on “e-Infrastructures for an Engaging Science Classroom” from 2 – 5 August, 2013 in Volos, Greece.
Meet our Neighbours! presented to teachers during Astronomy@myBackpack GTTP Workshop.
…”Astronomy is a visual subject, how do you share this beauty with people with vision impaired? Lina Canas of NUCLIO address this question in the next session with a tactile astronomy experience – “Meet Our Neighbors” – a project with hands-on astronomical materials for people with vision impaired. Canas showed how we can create simple tactile astronomy resources with low cost materials.”…
Check full article on GTTP website here: http://www.galileoteachers.org/day-3-volos-gttp-workshop/