Astronomy with Hands-on Data (2015)

This course is organized jointly by NUCLIO  and the University of Cardiff by in the framework of GTTP Academy Series.

This page provides a first view about the course, a new, more complete page/site is being prepared. We will place a link here to the new page as soon as it is available. Come back soon!

Provisional programme

* Day 1 (Session 1) :
– Open Education Resources and online communities: What is this and how can schools benefit from it
– Online Communities (Open Discovery Space)
– Digital repositories (Inspiring Science Education)
– Online Labs (Go-lab)
– Socially powered networks

* Day 1 (Session 2):  Hands-on data
– Gravity and Cosmology (e.g. Heavens’ Kitchen)
– studying the Solar System (e.g. Mars Rovers, Rosetta, etc.)
– Multiwavelength astronomy (e.g. Chromoscope, Multiwavelength Universe)

* Day 2 (Session 1) : Inquiring minds
– Mapping the scientific method and using online labs
– The scientific method in the hands of students: Engage, Explore,
– Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate – A live example:

* Day 2 (Session 2): Hands-on robotic telescopes
– The use of online labs for education: live example with robotic
– Telescopes (Faulkes Telescope / National Schools Observatory)
– Analysing astronomical data

* Day 3: Science at your fingertips
– The lives of stars (e.g. Star in a Box)
– Data mining the NSO archives (The Solar System at your fingertips)

* Day 4: Alien Worlds
– Searching for Earth 2.0 (e.g. Agent Exoplanet, Planet Hunters)
– Cosmic small-fry/impact Earth (e.g. Impact Calculator, Rosetta)

* Day 5: Astronomy in Stonenhenge