This presentation summarise our 2 years of comenius project: "European Collaboration of Students through the Study of the Sun". This presentation was made by Leonarda Fucili.

1. COMENIUS PROGRAMME 2007-2009
European collaboration of students
through the study of the Sun
Partnership:
Partnership
• Scuola Secondaria 1’ grado "G.G.Belli“, Rome, Italy
• Lycee Charlie Chaplin, Lyon, France
• Mehmet Akif Ersoy İlköğretim Okulu, Merkez, Malatya, Turkie
17 -20 June 2009
Final Meeting in Rome

2. THERE IS NOTHING
quite like
the study of astronomy
to capture the imagination
of our students, to make them
understand phenomena, and
introduce them to the
fundamental ideas of science and
mathematics and to the methods
of science in general.

3. Aims
The aims of the COMENIUS project:
• To promote European co-operation between pupils
(ages 12 to 18) from different schools in the area of
(solar) Astronomy
• To undertake experimental work that can be shared
and used by pupils to enrich their understanding of
the role of the sun in their daily lives and in the use
of solar energy
• To develop linguistic and communication skills of
the participating pupils through a variety of means,
including the use of ICT
• To enhance awareness of the role of the Sun in our
common culture

4. Activities
 constructing models of the local horizon to investigate the motion of the
Sun in the sky
 observing the transit of the sun on the local meridian
 determining the latitude of the school by measuring the altitude of the
Sun during solar noon and by measuring the altitude of the Polar star
 determining the longitude of the school using GPS and maps
 orienteering
 determining the difference between solar noon and 12.00 a.m
 investigating the equation of time
 determining the duration of the day and the night and how it varies at the
different seasons
 constructing different types of sundials
 using the sundials to investigate the apparent motion of the Sun
 monitoring the sun through a solar telescope
 constructing and using spectrometers
 studying the path of the Sun through some ancient “solar” monuments
 drawing comics about the myths of the sky
 writing a science-fiction novel about the Sun and the Cosmos
… and MUCH MORE!!

5. THE VISITS

6. ROME
12 -16 MAY 2008

7. THE WELCOME
of the French and Turkish
partners

8. THE OPENING SESSION CEREMONY

9. THE ASTRONOMICAL
TERRACE of “Belli” school
(Coordinator: L. Fucili)

10. THE ITALIAN WORKSHOP
“building an equatorial sundial”

11. THE COOPERATION

12. SUNDIALS IN THE SUN

13. SUN OBSERVATIONS

14. Observing the Sun
inside Pantheon
on the astronomical
terrace

15. THE TURKISH WORKSHOP “Myths about the sun”

16. THE FRENCH WORKSHOP “Using solar panels”

20. “PARTY-WORKSHOP”

21. G…ASTRONOMY!

22. A SCIENTIFIC TOUR IN ROME

23. PANTHEON

24. PALACE “SPADA”

25. St. PETER’S
SQUARE

26. WORKSHOPS

27. WALKING “STEP BY STEP”
LIKE THE SUN

28. MEASURING THE ALTITUDE OF THE SUN
across the year
WINTER
SOLSTICE
EQUINOX
SUMMER
SOLSTICE

29. S. MARIA DEGLI ANGELI

30. WORKSHOP 1

31. WORKSHOP 2

32. THE TRANSIT
OF THE SUN

33. THE IMAGE OF THE SUN
SUMMER SOLSTICE
WINTER
SOLSTICE EQUINOX
15 MAY

34. THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

36. The visit of the class III H “Belli”
in Lyon
18 -23 November 2008
(SCIENCE WEEK)

37. THE VISIT OF
THE CITY

38. LECTURES

39. SCIENCE EXHIBITS

40. WORKSHOPS

41. PRESENTATIONS & COOPERATION

42. LANGUAGE
EXCHANGES
INTERVIEWS

43. SURPRISING
EFFECTS!

44. Meeting in MALATYA
TURKIE
26 MAY– 3 JUNE 2009

47. WORKSHOPS

48. NEMRUT: SOLAR TEMPLUM

52. THE EUPHRATE VALLEY

54. SETTIMIO SEVERO
BRIDGE

55. CAPPADOCIA

58. MOSQUE IN MALATYA

59. WORK SESSIONS

63. FRIENDISHIP, COOPERATION AND HAPPINESS
UNDER THE SUN…
OUR COMENIUS PROJECT!

64. UNDER THE SAME SUN…
different cultures meet and interweave
for increasing knowledge and
building together a world
Of beauty, cooperation and peace