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Resources for Teaching Astronomy in UK Schools
This School Science Review article looks at a selection of resources currently available for use in the teaching of astronomy in UK schools. It is by no means an exhaustive list but it highlights a variety of free resources that can be used in the classroom to help engage students of all ages with astronomy and space science. It also lists several facilities with a specific astronomy/space focus that can be visited by schools groups, and briefly describes what is available at each site.
The authors of the article are:
*Paul Roche is the Director of the Faulkes Telescope Project and has been the UK National Schools’ Astronomer (funded by the STFC) since 2000. He is the Head of Astronomy at the University of Glamorgan and the ESERO-UK Space Ambassador for Wales (based at Cardiff University).
*Andy Newsam is the Director of the National Schools’ Observatory, a Reader in Astronomy Education at Liverpool John Moores University and an STFC Science in Society Fellow. He is the ESERO-UK Space Ambassador for the North-West of England and Shropshire.
*Sarah Roberts is the Director of Education for the Faulkes Telescope Project and a Lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Glamorgan.
*Tom Mason is the Director of Armagh Planetarium and a past president of both the British Association of Planetaria and the International Planetarium Society. He is the ESERO-UK Space Ambassador for Northern Ireland.
*John Baruch is the Director of Robotic Telescopes at the University of Bradford. The programme has 55 000 school children as registered users, together with their teachers, and is directly linked into the STEM outreach programme of the university.
This article is from School Science Review, March 2012, 93 (344).
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