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Education Session at August Workshop (Chicago)

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Posted: July 3, 2009 - 9:50pm

An education session is planned during the upcoming workshop at the Adler Planetarium. I'll be organizing it along with Claudine Kavanagh, who runs an after school astronomy program at a local public school district in Boston. We're interested in what other educators would like to see at the session. Would you like a lab curriculum designed around observing epsilon Aurigae? Would you like background science materials (visuals and text) written at a certain level? Would you like time set aside to just share ideas and brainstorm with other teachers? Something else?Aaron

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Posted: July 19, 2009 - 6:07pm

I think that it would be neat if educators had a chance to share things that have worked and have not worked in the classroom. Another subject of concern for me- "How do you get the other science teachers and administrators on board this Citizen Sky project so that the teacher gets the support needed?". That's a big one for me. Not much astronomy is taught down here in my school system.Chris Stephan

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Posted: July 28, 2009 - 4:50pm

I know when I'm working with kids who don't get a lot of STEM type activities anything Ican find that is tactile or interactive really helps with the inquiry process. I would be interested in ideas along those lines. Alice

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