GTTP Workshops Currently Scheduled in 2010

March 14 – 15:  Northrup-Grumman is hosting a GTTP workshop at its Redondo Beach, California facility.  The workshop includes a tour of the James Webb Space Telescope facility, and explores themes about our expanding sense of the scale of the universe since Galileo.  This workshop is full.

April 24, 2010:  With support from NASA’s Lunar Science Institute at NASA Ames Research Center, a GTTP workshop will take place at Foothill College, on the San Francisco Peninsula in Los Altos Hills, California.  NASA lunar scientists and educators will bring the very latest information and activities inspired by recent lunar missions.  For more information and to register for this workshop follow the following link: http://astrosociety.org/education/gttp/workshop04-24-10.html.

July 31 – August 1:  As part of the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a GTTP workshop will bring educators to the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.  More information and registration instructions will be posted here soon; be sure to check back.

For more information on any of these workshops or to explore hosting a GTTP workshop at your location, contact the GTTP coordinator at gttp@astrosociety.org.

GTTP Workshops in 2009

The ASP and NJACE will be conducting a pilot Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) workshop the weekend prior to the annual Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) meeting. Registrations for the workshop are now being accepted.

The two-day workshop will be conducted on Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13, 2009, at the Westin SFO Hotel in Millbrae, California. There will be Saturday morning and afternoon sessions and a Sunday morning session focusing on the four GTTP areas:

1. An activity recreating Galileo’s observations of the moons of Jupiter to demonstrate a hands-on, inquiry-based, collaborative approach to scientific investigation and to illustrate the process of science.
2. Activities developed for the International Year of Astronomy, including lessons on the value of dark skies and the use of a portable, user-friendly telescope developed for IYA: the Galileoscope (each participant will be able to take one home with our compliments).
3. Activities involving fundamental concepts to met curriculum goals.
4. Demonstrations of resources adaptable for use in the classroom.

Sunday afternoon is reserved for a series of talks by research scientists from the SETI Institute in nearby Mountain View, California, on the prospects of and search for life beyond the Earth.

The registration fee for the workshop is $39.95 per day. Attendance for both days is necessary for this workshop. Academic credit through San Francisco State University, for those who desire it, is available. 

To learn more, visit: www.astrosociety.org/events/2009mtg/workshops.html. This page also includes links to the workshop registration page.

To learn more about the ASP conference, visit www.astrosociety.org/events/meeting.html and follow the links in the menu near the top of the page. The meeting will run from Sunday evening, September 13, through Wednesday afternoon, September 16.