Network for Astronomy School Education
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| Abbreviation | NASE |
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| Formation | 2009 |
President | Rosa Maria Ros |
Vice-President | Beatriz Garcia |
| Website | sac |
Network for Astronomy School Education (NASE) is an International Astronomical Union (IAU) Program Group that works on Training Teachers for primary and secondary schools. The birth of NASE Group occurred when Rosa Maria Ros and Alexandre Costa were sent by UNESCO and IAU to give two courses in Peru and Ecuador in July 2009. From there on more than 70 courses have been presented worldwide.
Objectives
The main objective of NASE is to prepare the next generation of teachers and perform changes on the teachers that are already in practice. We work with university professors in order to train future teachers and we cooperate with the departments of education in order to train experienced primary and secondary school teachers. The Program Group created a basic course for training teachers aiming at:
- teaching astronomy to teachers
- teaching teachers how to teach astronomy
At the same time, the Program Group works with University Professors to introduce them to new methods of teaching astronomy. The topics of “the basic NASE course” are:
- Positional astronomy
- Solar system
- Exoplanets
- Spectrography
- Photometry
- Spectroscopy
- Determination of absolute magnitude
- Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Stellar evolution
- Cosmology
NASE classes were designed for developing countries where teachers don't have many financial resources. NASE Program Group members go to these countries for the first time to prepare a local task group that will disseminate astronomy knowledge and inexpensive didactic materials. The main goal is precisely to set up in each country a local group of NASE members who carry on teaching the essential NASE course[1] every year and to create new didactic inexpensive experiments, demonstrations and astronomical instruments. This has allowed to build a very large repository of educational materials for astronomy with PowerPoint Presentations[2],animations, articles and lectures[3], photos, games, simulationssites[4], interactive programs(e.g Stellarium [5]) and videos.
NASE Courses
NASE has now given more than seventy courses mainly in South America, Africa and Asia.
| Meeting | Venue | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lima (Peru) | July 17-20, 2009 |
| 2 | Salinas (Ecuador) | July 18-21, 2009 |
| 3 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | July 6-9, 2010 |
| 4 | Managua (Nicaragua) | July 12-15, 2010 |
| 5 | Lima (Peru) | July 17-20, 2010 |
| 6 | Rosario (Argentina) | October 12-15, 2010 |
| 7 | Cañada de Gómez (Argentina) | October 13-15, 2010 |
| 8 | Venado Tuerto (Argentina) | May 26-28, 2011 |
| 9 | Rafaela (Argentina) | June 22-25, 2011 |
| 10 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | July 11-14, 2011 |
| 11 | Managua (Nicaragua) | July 11-14, 2011 |
| 12 | Panamá (Panamá) | July 18-22, 2011 |
| 13 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | July 21-24, 2011 |
| 14 | Asunción (Paraguay) | July 27-30, 2011 |
| 15 | Reconquista (Argentina) | November 2-5, 2011 |
| 16 | Lima (Peru) | January 18-21, 2012 |
| 17 | Managua (Nicaragua) | July 2-6, 2012 |
| 18 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | July 9-12, 2012 |
| 19 | Guatemala (Guatemala) | July 10-13, 2012 |
| 20 | Quito (Ecuador) | October 23-26, 2012 |
| 21 | La Paz (Bolivia) | October 29- November 1, 2012 |
| 22 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | November 14-16, 2012 |
| 23 | Santa Fe (Argentina) | November 19-21, 2012 |
| 24 | Asunción (Paraguay) | November 21-24, 2012 |
| 25 | Montevideo (Uruguay) | November 26-29, 2012 |
| 26 | Accra (Ghana) | January 8-11, 2013 |
| 27 | Cañada de Gómez (Argentina) | March 12-15, 2013 |
| 28 | Mendoza (Argentina) | March 18-20, 2013 |
| 29 | Cochabamba (Bolivia) | July 16-18, 2013 |
| 30 | Uberlandia (Brasil) | July 29- August 1, 2013 |
| 31 | Foz de Iguaçu (Brasil) | August 5-8, 2013 |
| 32 | Bauru (Brasil) | August 12-15, 2013 |
| 33 | Managua (Nicaragua) | August 5-7, 2013 |
| 34 | Beijing (China) | August 19-21, 2013 |
| 35 | Medellín (Colombia) | September 2-5, 2013 |
| 36 | Bogota (Colombia) | September 2-5, 2013 |
| 37 | Quito (Ecuador) | September 23-26, 2013 |
| 38 | Barraquilla (Colombia) | October 8-10, 2013 |
| 39 | Nairobi (Kenya) | October 24-26, 2013 |
| 40 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | November 4-7, 2013 |
| 41 | Guatemala (Guatemala) | November 11-13, 2013 |
| 42 | San Luis Potosí (México) | November 19-22, 2013 |
| 43 | Montevideo (Uruguay) | December 2-5, 2013 |
| 44 | Huancayo (Peru) | March 17-20, 2014 |
| 45 | Ica (Peru) | March 24-27, 2014 |
| 46 | Mendoza (Argentina) | April 24-26, 2014 |
| 47 | Cluj (Romania) | April 24-26, 2014 |
| 48 | La Habana (Cuba) | June 9-12, 2014 |
| 49 | Bogotá (Colombia) | June 16-19, 2014 |
| 50 | Quito (Ecuador) | June 16-19, 2014 |
| 51 | Medellín (Colombia) | June 25-28, 2014 |
| 52 | Accra (Ghana) | July 28-31, 2014 |
| 53 | Asunción (Paraguay) | July 30 - August 1, 2014 |
| 54 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | July 31 - August 1, 2014 |
| 55 | Salta (Argentina) | August 12-14, 2014 |
| 56 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | October 23-24, 2014 |
| 57 | Cochabamba (Bolivia) | October 27-28, 2014 |
| 58 | Guatemala (Guatemala) | November 3-5, 2014 |
| 59 | Oruro (Bolivia) | November 4-7, 2014 |
| 60 | Managua (Nicaragua) | December 10-12, 2014 |
| 61 | Lima (Peru) | February 9-13, 2015 |
| 62 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | March 19-21, 2015 |
| 63 | Tucuman (Argentina) | March 25-27, 2015 |
| 64 | Cuenca (Ecuador) | March 25-27, 2015 |
| 65 | Jujuy (Argentina) | May 11-13, 2015 |
| 66 | Medellín (Colombia) | June 24-27, 2015 |
| 67 | Guatemala (Guatemala) | June 25-27, 2015 |
| 68 | Managua (Nicaragua) | July 13-15, 2015 |
| 69 | Honolulu (Hawaii) | August 1-2, 2015 |
| 70 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | August 24-27, 2015 |
| 71 | Bogota (Colombia) | October 5-7, 2015 |
| 72 | Bucaramanga (Colombia) | October 11-14, 2015 |
Partnership Courses
NASE has also cooperated with other associations to promote teacher training on astronomy, namely with UNESCO and the European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE.
| Meeting | Venue | Dates | Partners |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lima (Peru) | July 17-20, 2009 | UNESCO and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. |
| 2 | Salinas (Ecuador) | July 18-21, 2009 | UNESCO and Observatorio de Quito |
| 3 | Madrid (Spain) | Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2009 | European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE and Spanish National Research Council - CSIC. |
| 4 | Varna (Bulgaria) | September 1-5, 2010 | European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE and Varna Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium. |
| 5 | Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) | December 14-15, 2010 | TAD (Teaching Astronomy for Development IAU Commission 46) and Université de Ouagadougou. |
| 6 | Cape Town (South Africa) | August 20, 2011 | OAD (Office for Astronomy Development IAU) and South African Astronomical Observatory |
| 7 | Beijing (China) | August 25, 2012 | Beijing Planetarium and IAU |
| 8 | Enontekiö (Finland) | December 28-30, 2013 | European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE, LUMA and Helsinky University |
| 9 | San Luis Potosi (Mexico) | November 23, 2013 | Escuela de Estudios Superiores del Magisterio Potosino |
| 10 | London (United Kingdom) | July 20-24, 2015 | European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE, Royal Astronomical Society and Greenwich Observatory |
References
- ^ "The essential NASE Astronomy course for teachers- 14 steps to the Universe" (PDF).
- ^ {{cite web|title=Astronomy PowerPoint Presentations|url=http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/cursos/formato/materiales/ppts/ListaPpts.php
- ^ "Lectures about astronomy topics".
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help); Text "http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/cursos/formato/materiales/conferencias/ListaConferencias.php" ignored (help) - ^ {{cite web|title=Simulations from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln| url=http://astro.unl.edu/animationsLinks.html
- ^ "Stellarium astronomical Software".
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help); Text "http://www.stellarium.org/" ignored (help)
External links
- NASE Website
- 14 Steps to the Universe (book)
- Geometry of Light and Light Shadows
- [Cosmic lights (book)]
- International Astronomical Union (Official website)
