Bringing Science into Schools through Astronomy. Project ASTRO, Tucson

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dc.creatorBarban, Caroline
dc.creatorDole, Herve
dc.date2005-08-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:55:43Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:55:43Z
dc.descriptionWe report our experience in bringing science into US and French classrooms. We participated in the US scientific educational program Project ASTRO. It is based on a partnership between a school teacher and an astronomer. They together design and realize simple and interesting scientific activities for the children to learn and enjoy science. We present four hands-on activities we realized in a 4th-grade class (10 yr-old kids) in Tucson (USA) in 2002-2003. Among the covered topics were: the Solar System, the Sun (helioseismology) and the Galaxies. We also present a similar experience done in two classrooms in 2005, in Chatenay-Malabry (France) in partnership with an amateur astronomy association (Aphelie). This is a pleasant and rewarding activity, extremely well appreciated by the children and the school teachers. It furthermore promotes already at a young age the excitement of science, and provides concrete examples of the scientific methodology.
dc.description4 pages, 5 images, proceedings of the JENAM 2005 (Liege) parallel session on education. Paper also available in http://lully.as.arizona.edu/~hdole/vulgarisation/ecoles
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508146
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508146
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/87342
dc.subjectPhysics Education
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleBringing Science into Schools through Astronomy. Project ASTRO, Tucson
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