From: Linda Shore (lindas@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 14:26:30 PST
Message-Id: <a05010400b8a30d82e338@[192.174.3.229]> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:26:30 -0800 From: Linda Shore <lindas@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Astronomy Opportunity
PROJECT TO GIVE TEACHERS "THEIR OWN ASTRONOMER"
Would You Like an Astronomer in Your Classroom?
Apply to be a Project ASTRO Teacher
Project ASTRO pairs Bay Area teachers in grades
4 - 9 with local amateur and professional astronomers, who
commit to make at least four classroom visits. Teacher and
astronomer partners train together at a 2-day summer
workshop where they learn to do hands-on, inquiry-based
astronomy activities that involve students in the process
of science. Workshop participants also receive Project
ASTRO's 800-page curriculum resource guide, "The
Universe at Your Fingertips."
Project ASTRO is a program of the non-profit
Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The project began
in the Bay Area in 1993 and has now expanded to 11
other sites around the country. The emphasis is on
continuing teacher-astronomer partnerships, where the
students really get to know "their astronomer". Many
Project ASTRO partners go beyond the classroom
to organize stargazing events, field trips, or astronomy
clubs for their adopted schools.
Applications are now being taken for the 2002-2003
school year. The deadline is May 10 and space is limited
to 20 - 25 partnerships. All participants must attend the
hands-on training workshop, which will be held this year on
August 16-17 2002, at the San Mateo County Office of
Education in Redwood City. Teachers must commit to
teaching some astronomy during the 2002-2003 school
year, but prior experience teaching astronomy is NOT
required.
Teacher application forms are available from:
Karin Avila, Project ASTRO
A.S.P.
390 Ashton Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112;
Tel.: (415) 337-1100 x101
Email: astro@astrosociety.org.
Forms can also be downloaded from:
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/bayarea/tform.html
--Linda S. Shore, Ed.D. Director, Exploratorium Teacher Institute 3601 Lyon Street San Francisco, CA 94123 Phone: (415) 561-0313 Fax: (415) 561-0307
"It's not as complicated as you think."
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