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Paul Natoli Ballarat High School Overview A selection of ideas and tasks that can be used with a range of students from Yr11 Astronomy/Astrophysics to primary school classes. This session will cover ways to use ICT as well as hands on activities. Including ways to read stars, finding south at night, scale solar systems, running an observing night and more. Why should you care who I am? My Background At Uni I Completed a Bachelor in Space Science, during which I purchased my first of many apparatus for astronomy. I Have a 8 inch celestron telescope with multiple cameras and attachments, cameras etc. I have often held sessions for people to partake in viewing of the night sky. After this I got my Dip Ed and have since been teaching Math and Science at Ballarat High School. And most of all I love astronomy and science. ICT Programs that can be used in the class Celestia Stellarium Worldwide Telescope Sixty Symbols YouTube Hands On • Using a telescope in the classroom • Phases of the moon • Pocket solar system • Making a rainbow • Expanding universe Using a Telescope in the classroom Getting students familiar with the idea, use binoculars Get a telescope cut in half lengthways to demonstrate how the light gets to our eye (much better and understandable than a picture) Use a telescope in the class room or out side, to view distant objects, trees, hills, towers etc, show that they can be used in the day also Must make sure not to look at the sun..i would only advise to view the sun through a telescope with a camera attached and see the photos, to much risk to the eye of a crack in a solar filter or other little things that can go wrong. Phases of the moon Multiple options 1- using a lamp or other light source, have a student sit on a swivel chair a few m in front of the light.(have the room light off) have another student or teacher, walk around student with a ball(the bigger the better) cutting in front of the light. Stop at various points and get the student to describe the look of the ball(moon). Can then is equiptment allows get students to do this in groups. 2- Shoebox model – line a box with black paper or paint to have it dark. Make a hole the size of a small torch in one of the small ends, and then make three holes along each of the side of the box, and one on the other end of the box. Use a polystyrene ball and skewer it in the centre of the box this will be the moon. Make a cover for the holes that you can lift. Once complete shine the torch in the end, and view the moon from the various holes. Flick book Pocket solar system Scale of objects in the solar system Paper the length of arms spread out One end is: Kuiper belt objects Other end: Sun Half way is Uranus Half way between Uranus and Kuiper belt objects Is Neptune Half way between Uranus and Sun is Saturn Half way between sun and Saturn is Jupiter Half way between Jupiter and the sun is The Asteroid belt Half way between Asteroid belt and sun is Mars Half way between Mars and Sun is Venus Half way between Venus and Mars is Earth Half way between Sun and Venus is Mercury Size of planets This is an activity or display that shows the relative sizes of the planets using round objects that everyone is familiar with: Balls used for various sports. It costs under $20.00 to put together. For this display, a basketball is chosen to represent Jupiter. A basketball is the largest ball most people are readily familiar with. Jupiter is also the largest planet. Objects used to represent the other planets are scaled to the Jupiter = basketball scale. The table below gives the objects used and their relevant measurements These objects are within With this method, if you wanted to make a sun, it would need to be 237cm is diameter 10% http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImsw-r0ddE Make a rainbow If you have an old over head projector, position books or paper to block all but a narrow slit of light. Place a diffraction grating over the lens, where the image leaves to hit the wall(screen)(can also use a prism) To adjust the size and position change the size of the slit. Before turning on ask the students which order the light will appear, then check Once on ask students what they think will happen if a filter is put in front of the grating, use a range of filters. For older students, get them to determine if all the bands are the same thickness (why/why not). Then get them to test there idea of the size of the bands when looking through a filter. Expanding universe Balloon method Draw stars on the balloon and blow it up…stars move apart…but they also get bigger!! This does not happen Elastic method ‘’elastic and pictures Observing night What to have Set up Times Position Safety What to look for Read Stars Common constellations Major stars Time of year Phone apps Find south Multiple methods Using the southern cross Path of the sun Alien message Can be used with almost anyone and use anything. This is a task that gets people to look for patterns and use their imagination. Simply give the students a image of dots or shaded in squares and get them to come up with the meaning, You can then get them to reply to the code. Cosmic calendar Picture an astronomer This is a fun imaginative task, usually used for junior students. Simply get some butcher paper around the length of the students, and in groups get them to draw and astronomer. These should be the only guidelines. Don’t talk about gender, age or anything, let them tell you what an astronomer is. The common image is the typecast of a middle-aged, white, "nerdy" male. Which of these people are astronomers They all are