COSMOamautas: Training Teachers in rural areas in Peru Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/cosmoamautas-training-teachers-in-rural-areas-in-peru/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:14:27 +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 COSMOamautas: Training Teachers in rural areas in Peru Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/cosmoamautas-training-teachers-in-rural-areas-in-peru/ 32 32 CosmoAmautas OAD Project Publishes in Nature Astronomy Journal https://astro4dev.org/cosmoamautas-oad-project-publishes-in-nature-astronomy-journal/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:13:09 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=24513 The CosmoAmautas teacher training project funded by the IAU OAD have published a comment in Nature Astronomy. The article, “The CosmoAmautas project for equitable scientific education in Peru“, presents how the project team is using astronomy to contribute to an accessible and decentralized scientific education in Peru. 95% of the teachers reported having learnt new [...]

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]]> CosmoAmautas: Astrophysics Teaching Material for High School (Spanish) https://astro4dev.org/cosmoamautas-astrophysics-teaching-material-for-high-school-spanish/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:42:49 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=23853 The CosmoAmautas project funded by the IAU OAD has published an astrophysics book (Spanish) for high school teachers. “CosmoAmautas: Astrophysics in the classroom” is a text and activity book with astrophysics teaching material for high school teachers. The content is written in Spanish and intended as introductory material for teachers who want to integrate astronomy [...]

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]]> Teacher Training Project Impacts Science Education in Rural Peru https://astro4dev.org/teacher-training-project-impacts-science-education-in-rural-peru/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:00:06 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=23732 The Cosmoamautas project conducted a virtual science education program for high school teachers in rural Peru. More than 90% of the teachers are now ready to delve into new/complex topics and inspire their students. The CosmoAmautas project aimed to bring astronomy and science education to rural regions in Peru, where there is a significant deficit [...]

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]]> Overview https://astro4dev.org/overview-25/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:07:37 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18951 The COSMOamautas program (amauta=teacher/knowledgeable in the indigenous language Quechua) aims to bring teacher training workshops in Astronomy and Space Science to high school teachers in rural areas in Peru. We have selected rural communities where the first professional national telescopes have been recently built, yet their presence has made no significant impact on the science [...]

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