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The Faulkes Telescope Project, Nuclio and Go_Lab
The document discusses several projects that bring real astronomy to the classroom using robotic telescopes: The Faulkes Telescope Project allows students to use two-meter telescopes in Hawaii and Australia to capture astronomical images. The "Down 2 Earth" project focuses on asteroids, comets, meteorites, and impacts through inquiry-based learning. Resources for these projects include Android apps, loan boxes with meteorite samples, and educational materials for the European Space Agency's Gaia mission to map stars.
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- 1. The Faulkes TelescopeProject, Nuclio and Go-Lab: Bringing Real Astronomy to the Classroom Lina Canas Rosa Doran Fraser Lewis
- 2. Fraser Lewis FaulkesTelescope Project The Go-Lab Project Liverpool John Moores University The Open University
- 3. M Robotic telescopesallow us to obtain images from remote, good quality sites There are ONLY 3 * 2-metre telescopes that allow this for education (and only 1 person … !) FT LT Home
- 5. FT North Haleakala,Maui, Hawai’i
- 8. Compared with TheHubble Space Telescope
- 15. Simulating asteroid and comet impacts
- 16. Asteroids, comets &NEOs • FT observing programmes – asteroids and comets in space • “Down 2 Earth” project – impacts and meteorites http://education.down2earth.eu
- 17. What is “Downto Earth”? A STEM project based around the science of asteroids, comets, meteorites and impacts Inquiry-based science education Multi-disciplinary (astronomy, geography, geology, physics, maths, IT)
- 18. Extremely Relevant ! Chelyabinsk meteor, 15/02/13
- 22. In development -Android App, Google Moon, Google Mars, more languages (Portuguese, Romanian) Via Go-Lab, ESA – more activities, worksheets
- 23. Loan Boxes Freeloans to UK schools 4 different types of box containing meteorites, terrestrial rocks, dinosaur fossils & resources
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- 25. European Space AgencyGaia Mission (ESA) A mission to map positions (and variability) of a billion stars in our Galaxy which will serendipitously find variables of several types and NEOs. We are creating educational resources funded by STFC, ESA, Go-Lab in conjunction with University of Cambridge. www.gaia.ac.uk http://sci.esa.int/gaia/
- 26. 26 1m CurrentNetwork (late 2014) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope http://lcogt.net/observatory 2m 2m 2 x 1m 3 x 1m 3 x 1m
- 28. Please come findme at the Go-Lab stand (#16) Or e-mail me at fraser.lewis@faulkes-telescope.com http://faulkes-telescope.com http://resources.faulkes-telescope.com http://education.down2earth.eu http://www.golabz.eu/