National Astronomy Educator Coordinator
National Astronomy Educator Coordinator
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The National Astronomy Education Coordination (NAEC) is part of the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education, and one of its missions is to take stock of astronomy education world-wide. With the help of the NAEC Teams, they are in the process of creating an overview of the different countries' education systems, and of astronomy education within those education systems.
To meet the NAEC team of the Dominican Republic, click here.
One of the actions taken as NAEC in Dominican Republic has been the teacher trainings in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Astrobiology and Cultural Astronomy. For a more detailed view of what we have done in this regard in Dominican Republic, please click here.
Our new project is now called AstroEdu-RD, which is a platform for teacher in the Dominican Republic to find resources to bring astronomy to the schools. For the social media of astroEdu please click here of IG, and here for Facebook.
Here is a list of our most recent activities:
Here is a list of our most recent activities:
Parallel Earth Challenge
Workshop for teachers: Remote Observations and image processing to create RGB images. Using Faulkes telescope and SalsaJ.
Talk to students in different school in the Dominican Republic, about the results of the lates image of the Black Hole in the center of our Galaxy.
Sun at the Zenith 2022
Sun at the Zenith 2022
Lunar Eclipse May 2022
Sun at the Zenith
Sun at the Zenith
In May the Sun makes its first pass through the Zenith, for little while now, our shadows are projected to the South and the Sun is more towards the North.
Sun at the Zenith, again
Sun at the Zenith, again
In July, the Sun passes again through the Zenith, returning to the South and projecting a shadow towards the North.
Lunar Eclipses
On November 19th, 2021 there was a Lunar eclipse visible from the Dominican Republic. Together with Genius Academy, we oginized a workshop for kids 7-12 years old to explain what a Lunar eclipse was. There was also a document generated so that the students sould create their own model of the Earth-Moon system and their shadows.
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