The project plan for Astrobabies project is available in English and Spanish The activities have three different audiences: 1. Children aged 0 to 47 months 2. teachers, psychologists, special educators and social workers. 3. Parents and caregivers For the attention of children will attend 10 monthly Institutions in which 2 groups of 20 children with one […]
Category Archives: 2017
By Vanessa McBride & Eli Grant, Office of Astronomy for Development The Office of Astronomy for Development has funded over 100 projects run by enthusiastic astronomers and science communicators with a view to using astronomy to make the world a better place. But, how do we know our projects have an impact? In fact, to […]
Astronomy connects all of us. While the sky looks slightly different based on your location, when put together it is our common heritage. Understanding the differences helps us to understand the connections. In this guest post, Megan Ray Nichols briefly explains those connections, thus underlining how local perspectives can contribute to a global one. Not everyone […]
On March 20th, 2017 (11:00 – 14:00) , at Public Special Junior High School of Thessaloniki an “Open Astronomy Day” will take place, in the context of IAU-OAD’s project «Looking … Up program! Astronomy for ALL» (http://bit.do/iau -oad-2017). We would like to thank the ‘Physics Partizani’ team for their participation on to this action. […]
Visit the project blog at https://haitiastro2017.wordpress.com/ This year’s team consists of Tom, Dayana, Ralph, Silas, Cecil, and Sarah. We’ll be running our annual astronomy-themed workshop this week, for an elementary school in Les Cayes, Haiti. For our activities this year, we were inspired by two things: a little girl who made a plaster astronaut last year and […]