Astronomy for Literacy Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/astronomy-for-literacy/ Astronomy for a better world! Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:45:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Astronomy for Literacy Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/astronomy-for-literacy/ 32 32 Update https://astro4dev.org/update-24/ Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:45:19 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=15338 Through the generous support of the Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD), Astronomy for Literacy (AFL) is working to enhance literacy, numeracy and other foundational skills among struggling junior secondary school students in Sierra Leone. The AFL project has developed detailed, highly structured lesson plans that enable relatively low-skilled teachers with limited subject knowledge to [...]

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]]> Overview of the project https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-for-literacy/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:23:02 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14112 Project leader: Steph Dobrowolski, steph@solonfoundation.org Project location: Sierra Leone Project Description: Astronomy for Literacy (AFL) will work to enhance literacy, numeracy and other foundational skills among upto 1250 struggling junior secondary school students in Sierra Leone. It will do this by adapting and developing high quality curriculum resources across literacy, math and science. The goal [...]

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