Looking …Up! Astronomy for All Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/looking-up-astronomy-for-all/ Astronomy for a better world! Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:03:01 +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 Looking …Up! Astronomy for All Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/looking-up-astronomy-for-all/ 32 32 Final report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-up4all/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:03:01 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17160 Looking …Up! Astronomy for All”1 aimed to promote inclusive astronomy education and to highlight the need of integrate innovative teaching of the Astronomy in the Curriculum. The key projects tasks, towards this objectives, were: creating, printing and disseminating educational posters and promotional material, Open Days: open to public Observational Days in Special Education Schools (in [...]

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]]> Winners of Global Video Competition https://astro4dev.org/winners-of-global-video-competition/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:46:16 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17035 A Global Competition on Creating an Educational Video on Astronomy was held by the OAD project ”Looking …Up! Astronomy for ALL”. A total of 46 entries were received from 6 countries around the world. Out of five finalists, two winners were selected in the end. They are    Winners: Stop motion animation video on the [...]

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]]> Update: Open days, Workshops, Competition https://astro4dev.org/update-open-days-workshops-competition/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:11:21 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16678 “Looking …Up! Astronomy for ALL!” aims (a) to promote inclusive education in astronomy (b) to highlight the need of integrating innovative teaching of the Astronomy in the curriculum (c) to give  teachers all the tools necessary for integrating Astronomy on their educational practice. Up to date, we organized – three Open Days at Special Education Schools & Inclusion [...]

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]]> Global Competition on creating an Educational Video on Astronomy https://astro4dev.org/global-competition-on-creating-an-educational-video-on-astronomy/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:24:56 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16558 A Global Competition on Creating an Educational Video on Astronomy is held in the context of IAU-OAD’s Looking …Up! Astronomy for ALL project. It is open to Teachers, Educators and Students all over the World. The competition aims to promote and encourage the engagement with Astronomy concepts and the integration of Astronomy to the Curricula. Teachers/Educators/Students [...]

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]]> Open Days https://astro4dev.org/open-day-2/ Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:20:52 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16408 On April 17th 2017, at 6th Junior High School of Thessaloniki (Inclusion Classes for Visual Impaired Pupils) an “Open Astronomy Day” will take place, in the context of IAU-OAD’s project “Looking … Up program! Astronomy for ALL”. After the activities a teachers’  education seminar will follow. Open Day #2 Open Day #3 took place in Veria)

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]]> Open day announcement https://astro4dev.org/open-day-announcement/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:20:49 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16094 On March 20th, 2017 (11:00 – 14:00)​ , at Public Special Junior High School of Thessaloniki an “Open Astronomy Day” will take place, in the context of IAU-OAD’s project «Looking … Up program! Astronomy for ALL» (http://bit.do/iau -oad-2017). We would like to thank the ‘Physics Partizani’ team for ​their ​ participation on​ to this action. [...]

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]]> Update – Posters https://astro4dev.org/update-posters/ Mon, 06 Mar 2017 01:35:41 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16025 Posters have been created including tactile/braille versions Links to access all the full resolution posters: http://bit.do/IAU-POSTERS  

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]]> Overview of Project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-project-lookingup/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 08:48:19 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=15772 The project “Looking …Up! Astronomy for All” aims to promote inclusive astronomy education. In order the project’s goal to be achieved the follow activities were organized : Open to public Observational Days in Special Education Schools (in the wider region of Thessaloniki/ Central Makedonia / Greece) , Workshops for Teachers on how Astronomy can be integrated in terms of formal and [...]

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