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.

1. The Faulkes Telescope Project,
Nuclio and Go-Lab: Bringing
Real Astronomy to the
Classroom
Lina Canas
Rosa Doran
Fraser Lewis

2. Fraser Lewis
Faulkes Telescope Project
The Go-Lab Project
Liverpool John Moores University
The Open University

3. M
Robotic telescopes allow 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
The Hubble 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 “Down to 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
Free loans to UK schools
4 different types of box
containing meteorites,
terrestrial rocks, dinosaur
fossils & resources

24. Aug.
2011

25. European Space Agency Gaia
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
Current Network (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 find me 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/