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Network for Astronomy School Education

{{short description|International Astronomical Union}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = Network for Astronomy School Education

| image = NASE-courses-map-2015.png

| size = 250px

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| map_caption = Working actively in developing countries

| abbreviation = NASE

| membership_type = Member states

| leader_title = President

| leader_name = Rosa Maria Ros

| leader_title2 = Vice-President

| leader_name2 = Beatriz Garcia

| formation = 2009

| website = {{URL|http://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/working_groups/259/}}

}}

Network for Astronomy School Education (NASE) is an International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group that works on Training Teachers for primary and secondary schools.

In 2007, professor George K. Miley, IAU vice-president, invited Rosa M. Ros to begin exploring the idea of setting up an astronomy program to give primary and secondary school teachers a better preparation in this area of knowledge. 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. Shortly after NASE was officially created in August 2009 during IAU's General Assembly at Rio de Janeiro. From there on more than 80 courses have been presented worldwide.

The topics of "the basic NASE course" are:

NASE classes were designed for developing countries where teachers don't have many financial resources. NASE Working 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{{cite web|title=Essential NASE Astronomy course for teachers| url=http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/cursos/formato/materiales/libro/llibre_angles.pdf}} 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{{cite web|title= Astronomy PowerPoint Presentations| url=http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/cursos/formato/materiales/ppts/ListaPpts.php}}], animations, articles and lectures,{{cite web|title=Lectures about astronomy topics| url=http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/cursos/formato/materiales/conferencias/ListaConferencias.php}} photos, games, simulations websites,{{cite web|title=Simulations from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln| url=http://astro.unl.edu/animationsLinks.html}} interactive programs(e.g. Stellarium{{cite web |title=Stellarium astronomical Software| url=http://www.stellarium.org/}}) and videos.

NASE Courses

NASE has now given more than seventy courses mainly in South America, Africa and Asia.

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! Venue

! width=180 |Dates

1

|Lima (Peru)

|17–20 July 2009

2

|Salinas (Ecuador)

|18–21 July 2009

3

|Barranquilla (Colombia)

|6–9 July 2010

4

|Managua (Nicaragua)

|12–15 July 2010

5

|Lima (Peru)

|17–20 July 2010

6

|Rosario (Argentina)

|12–15 October 2010

7

|Cañada de Gómez (Argentina)

|13–15 October 2010

8

|Venado Tuerto (Argentina)

|26–28 May 2011

9

|Rafaela (Argentina)

|22–25 June 2011

10

|Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

|11–14 July 2011

11

|Managua (Nicaragua)

|11–14 July 2011

12

|Panama City (Panamá)

|18–22 July 2011

13

|Barranquilla (Colombia)

|21–24 July 2011

14

|Asunción (Paraguay)

|27–30 July 2011

15

|Reconquista (Argentina)

|2–5 November 2011

16

|Lima (Peru)

|18–21 January 2012

17

|Managua (Nicaragua)

|2–6 July 2012

18

|Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

|9–12 July 2012

19

|Guatemala City (Guatemala)

|10–13 July 2012

20

|Quito (Ecuador)

|23–26 October 2012

21

|La Paz (Bolivia)

|29 October – 1 November 2012

22

|Barranquilla (Colombia)

|14–16 November 2012

23

|Santa Fe (Argentina)

|19–21 November 2012

24

|Asunción (Paraguay)

|21–24 November 2012

25

|Montevideo (Uruguay)

|26–29 November 2012

26

|Accra (Ghana)

|8–11 January 2013

27

|Cañada de Gómez (Argentina)

|12–15 March 2013

28

|Mendoza (Argentina)

|18–20 March 2013

29

|Cochabamba (Bolivia)

|16–18 July 2013

30

|Uberlandia (Brazil)

|29 July – 1 August 2013

31

|Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil)

|5–8 August 2013

32

|Bauru (Brazil)

|12–15 August 2013

33

|Managua (Nicaragua)

|5–7 August 2013

34

|Beijing (China)

|19–21 August 2013

35

|Medellín (Colombia)

|2–5 September 2013

36

|Bogotá (Colombia)

|2–5 September 2013

37

|Quito (Ecuador)

|23–26 September 2013

38

|Barranquilla (Colombia)

|8–10 October 2013

39

|Nairobi (Kenya)

|24–26 October 2013

40

|Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

|4–7 November 2013

41

|Guatemala City (Guatemala)

|11–13 November 2013

42

|San Luis Potosí (México)

|19–22 November 2013

43

|Montevideo (Uruguay)

|2–5 December 2013

44

|Huancayo (Peru)

|17–20 March 2014

45

|Ica (Peru)

|24–27 March 2014

46

|Mendoza (Argentina)

|24–26 April 2014

47

|Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

|24–26 April 2014

48

|Havana (Cuba)

|9–12 June 2014

49

|Bogotá (Colombia)

|16–19 June 2014

50

|Quito (Ecuador)

|16–19 June 2014

51

|Medellín (Colombia)

|25–28 June 2014

52

|Accra (Ghana)

|28–31 July 2014

53

|Asunción (Paraguay)

|30 July – 1 August 2014

54

|Barranquilla (Colombia)

|31 July – 1 August 2014

55

|Salta (Argentina)

|12–14 August 2014

56

|Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

|23–24 October 2014

57

|Cochabamba (Bolivia)

|27–28 October 2014

58

|Guatemala (Guatemala)

|3–5 November 2014

59

|Oruro (Bolivia)

|4–7 November 2014

60

|Managua (Nicaragua)

|10–12 December 2014

61

|Lima (Peru)

|9–13 February 2015

62

|Barranquilla (Colombia)

|19–21 March 2015

63

|San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina)

|25–27 March 2015

64

|Cuenca (Ecuador)

|25–27 March 2015

65

|Jujuy (Argentina)

|11–13 May 2015

66

|Medellín (Colombia)

|24–27 June 2015

67

|Guatemala (Guatemala)

|25–27 June 2015

68

|Managua (Nicaragua)

|13–15 July 2015

69

|Honolulu (United States)

|1–2 August 2015

70

|Tegucigalpa (Honduras)

|24–27 August 2015

71

|Bogotá (Colombia)

|5–7 October 2015

72

|Bucaramanga (Colombia)

|11–14 October 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.

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! Partners

1

|Madrid (Spain)

|26 Nov – 1 Dec 2009

|European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE and Spanish National Research Council - CSIC.

2

|Varna (Bulgaria)

|1–5 September 2010

|European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE and Varna Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium.

3

|Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

|14–15 December 2010

| TAD (Teaching Astronomy for Development IAU Commission 46) and Université de Ouagadougou.

4

|Cape Town (South Africa)

|20 August 2011

|OAD (Office for Astronomy Development IAU) and South African Astronomical Observatory

5

|Beijing (China)

|25 August 2012

|Beijing Planetarium and IAU

6

|Enontekiö (Finland)

|28–30 December 2013

|European Association for Astronomy Education - EAAE, LUMA and Helsinki University

7

|San Luis Potosí (Mexico)

|23 November 2013

|Escuela de Estudios Superiores del Magisterio Potosino

8

|London (United Kingdom)

|20–24 July 2015

|European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE, Royal Astronomical Society and Greenwich Observatory

See also

References

External links

  • [http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/Presentacion.php NASE Website]
  • [http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/cursos/formato/materiales/libro/llibre_angles.pdf 14 Steps to the Universe (book)]
  • [http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/cursos/formato/materiales/libro/geometria_ingles.pdf Geometry of Light and Light Shadows]
  • [http://sac.csic.es/astrosecundaria/en/cursos/formato/materiales/libro/Luces_del_cosmos_ingles.pdf Cosmic lights (book)]
  • [http://www.iau.org/ International Astronomical Union (Official website)]

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