GTTP MoonDays – New Tech
Nowadays there are a multitude of Moon Exploration tools freely available on the web. Here you will find a few selected ones. Have fun !!
Let’s Observe and talk about the Moon
The Galileo Teacher Training Programme is supporting the Global Astronomy Month 2011 by organizing the GTTP MoonDays. During the whole month we are inviting you to: Observe and Share the Earth’s natural satellite by naked eye, small telescopes, robotic telescopes,...
GTTP MoonDays Educator’s Corner
The Galileo Teacher Training Programme MoonDays is being launched in support to the Astronomers Without Borders global event: Global Astronomy Month 2011. The Educator’s Corner is just one of the components of the GTTP MoonDays. Since the list of ideas and projects produced to support the venue can be used all year long we decided to publish several of these as resource in our website. You will find bellow suggestions to participate in GAM2011 and gain prizes or simple nice ideas to support your projects along the year.
Successful 1st Workshop of “Galileo Teacher Training Program” in Venezuela
The 1st GTTP workshop in Venezuela took place during February 1st and 2nd at the Centre for Research in Astronomy CIDA, www.cida.ve. The effort was organized by the Galileo Teacher Training (GTTP) ambassador in Venezuela, Prof. Enrique Torres (the outreach coordinator at CIDA) and members of the GTTP network. This event is the continuation of the astronomy training of teachers and multipliers effort, started in 2006 with the “Universe Awareness Programme”, a programme to inspire young children.
More than 30 teachers attended the 2nd Latin American GTTP Workshop
Between January 3rd to 7th, 33 teachers from Chile and other Latin American countries attended the second edition of Latinamerican GTTP Workshop, an Astronomy training initiative for teachers. The activity was organized by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO); University of California, Berkeley; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Museo Interactivo Mirador; Universidad de La Serena; and Gemini-CONICYT Funding. It also counted on the collaboration of EXPLORA and Embassy of the United States in Chile.