Project ASTRO-BECOME A PROJECT ASTRO TEACHER AND BRING A VOLUNTEER ASTRONOMER TO YOUR CLASSROOM!

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From: Lori Lambertson (loril@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 12:18:14 PST 

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:18:14 -0800
From: Lori Lambertson <loril@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Project ASTRO-BECOME A PROJECT ASTRO TEACHER AND BRING A  VOLUNTEER ASTRONOMER TO YOUR CLASSROOM!

>Hello Pinholers,

This is from our friends at Project Astro. If you teach Astronomy,
you should look into this great program.
Read on,
Lori

>From: Christina de Leon <cdeleon@astrosociety.org>
>
>
>Project ASTRO pairs Bay Area teachers in grades 3rd - 9th with amateur and
>professional astronomers who commit to at least 4 site visits per year.
>Together, educators and astronomers attend a 2-day summer workshop where
>they learn to do hands-on, inquiry-based astronomy activities that involve
>students in the excitement of scientific discovery.
>
>Participants in Project ASTRO receive "The Universe at Your Fingertips",
>Project ASTRO's 800-page curriculum resource guide as well as access to
>books, activities, and telescopes in our lending library. Participants are
>invited to follow-up workshops that demonstrate astronomy activities from
>"The Universe at Your Fingertips" and telescopes available in the lending
>library.
>
>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
>12 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 2005-2006 school year. The deadline
>is Friday, May 6 and space is limited to 35 partnerships. If you are
>interested, please submit your application AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to increase
>the chance that we can find you a suitable astronomer partner. All
>participants must attend the hands-on training workshop, which will be held
>this year on August 19 - 20, 2005, at the San Mateo County Office of
>Education in Redwood City. Teachers must commit to teaching some astronomy
>during the 2005-2006 school year, but prior experience teaching astronomy is
>NOT required.
>
>For more information and an application form contact me at 415-337-1100 ext.
>101 or via e-mail: cdeleon@astrosociety.org
>
>Information and forms can be found on the Web at:
>http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/bayarea/teacher.html
>
>Even if you are not able to volunteer, please consider passing the word
>along to others who may be interested.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Christina de Leon
>Bay Area ASTRO Coordinator
>
>390 Ashton Ave.
>San Francisco, CA 94112
>415.337.1100 ext 101
>415.337.5205 fax
>
>http://www.astrosociety.org/education.html
>
>Become a Project ASTRO Volunteer:
>http://www.astrosociety.org/baprojectastro.html

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