Behold the Sky Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/behold-the-sky/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:20:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Behold the Sky Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/behold-the-sky/ 32 32 Behold the sky: Final report https://astro4dev.org/behold-the-sky-final-report/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:20:21 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=21696 Behold the Sky is an ongoing project that consists of loaning of solar PST telescopes and education material to teachers (AstroKits) that receive training in solar astrophysics topics.  Goals: make available 2 new AstroKits (there were 3) as well as reformulate and include new education materials on all kits. We completed 5 Astrokits: We bought [...]

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]]> Teacher workshops and activities https://astro4dev.org/18728/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:34:49 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18728 Behold the Sky is an ongoing project that consists in the loan of solar PST telescopes and education material (AstroKits) to teachers that are also trained in solar astrophysics topics. The project offers pedagogical advice for the teachers on how to perform empirical science activities with their students.  Website In addition, we plan two major [...]

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]]> Overview https://astro4dev.org/overview-6/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:17:17 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18009 Behold the Sky is an ongoing project that consists in lending solar PST telescopes and education material (AstroKits) to teachers that are also trained in solar astrophysics topics. The project offers pedagogical advice for the teachers on how to perform empirical science activities with their students. The project acts mainly in regions of socio-economic vulnerability, [...]

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