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The New ESERO website is launched
European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) Ireland promotes space as a theme to inspire and engage young people in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Space is fascinating to people of all ages and is the ultimate cross-curricular theme spanning a range of subjects from history, geography and science, to maths, literature, music and art.
ESERO Ireland has recently launched its new website which now includes a classroom resources section featuring an array of lesson plans relating to various primary science curriculum strands. These resources address questions like ‘Can you live on Mars?’, ‘Does Saturn float?’, ‘What does gravity do?’ and guide you in investigating falling stars, spacesuits, water droplets, refraction and a myriad of other topics.
Why not take a look http://www.esero.ie.
ESA Teachers' Summer Course
ESA is organising its 6th Teachers’ Summer Workshop at ESTEC, the Netherlands, from 8 to 10 July 2015. The workshop is open to both primary and secondary school teachers and subscriptions will open in February 2015. The workshop will present practical sessions, inspirational talks and classroom material and cover space topics will range from gravity, light, comets, asteroids and the history of the Solar system.
Space Station Robot Challenge
A space robotics competition opens today for school students. The aim is to design a robot that can move cargo from one end of an International Space Station (ISS) mock-up to another.
More details can be found here.
'History of the Universe' resource for primary teachers & new Paxi animation released!
ESA Education is proud to release two new resources for primary school level.
The first resource is a teacher guide with pupil activities for children aged 8-12 focusing on the History of the Universe. Through a series of linked activities, pupils will learn about key events in our Universe’s history. Pupils then perform calculations to place these events on the more recognisable timescale of one year, helping them understand that much of the evolution on our own planet has happened in a relatively short period of time.
The second resource is a new Paxi animation. Paxi, ESA’s education mascot, leads children on a voyage of discovery through our own celestial back yard – the Solar System – encountering the eight planets and other minor bodies, such as comets and asteroids.
Irish Astronomical Society Events
Monday 26th January
The Irish Astronomical Society's monthly meeting will take place on Monday 26th at 8PM in Ely House. They will have two talks on the night; Stars from the City: Getting started in night sky photography and Mission to Pluto by John Dolan (IAS) and John Flannery (IAS) respectively.
Friday 30th January
The Irish Astronomical Society will be meeting in the Martello tower car-park at 8PM to view the moon.
Saturday 31st January 2015
The Irish Astronomical Society will be meeting opposite the Clontarf Yacht club at 8PM to view the moon.
Please note that some events are weather dependent.
Please check their website http://www.irishastrosoc.org prior to the event.
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