GTTP Workshops in 2010

March 14 – 15: 32 teachers from the Los Angeles area attended a GTTP workshop hosted by Northrop-Grumman at its Redondo Beach, California facility. The workshop included a tour of the James Webb Space Telescope facility, and explored themes about our expanding sense of the scale of the universe since Galileo. 

April 24, 2010: With support from NASA’s Lunar Science Institute at NASA Ames Research Center, 30 teachers from around the San Francisco Bay Area attended a GTTP workshop at Foothill College, on the San Francisco Peninsula in Los Altos Hills, California. NASA lunar scientists and educators explained discoveries from recent lunar missions and led the group in hands-on activities inspired by the findings.

July 31 – August 1: As part of the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 74 teachers and professional developers attended a GTTP workshop at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. With support from the NASA Lunar Science Institute and the Fiske Planetarium, educators explored a variety of themes including: a sequence of lunar activities designed to take advantage of how students learn; solar system size and distance scale, including a walking tour the solar system across campus; the importance of dark skies; the Galileoscope; and NASA lunar science. Workshop participants also attended an evening talk on lunar exploration, and a star gazing event at the Sommers-Bausch Observatory hosted by observatory staff and local amateur astronomers. One hour of academic credit was offered through Colorado State University.  

GTTP Workshops in 2009

The ASP and NJACE conducted a pilot Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) workshop the weekend prior to the 2009 annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).

Thirty six educators attended the two-day workshop on Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13, 2009, at the Westin SFO Hotel in Millbrae, California. There were 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 featured 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.

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GTTP Workshops in 2010

March 14 – 15: 32 teachers from the Los Angeles area attended a GTTP workshop hosted by Northrop-Grumman at its Redondo Beach, California facility. The workshop included a tour of the James Webb Space Telescope facility, and explored themes about our expanding sense of the scale of the universe since Galileo. 

April 24, 2010: With support from NASA’s Lunar Science Institute at NASA Ames Research Center, 30 teachers from around the San Francisco Bay Area attended a GTTP workshop at Foothill College, on the San Francisco Peninsula in Los Altos Hills, California. NASA lunar scientists and educators explained discoveries from recent lunar missions and led the group in hands-on activities inspired by the findings.

July 31 – August 1: As part of the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 74 teachers and professional developers attended a GTTP workshop at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. With support from the NASA Lunar Science Institute and the Fiske Planetarium, educators explored a variety of themes including: a sequence of lunar activities designed to take advantage of how students learn; solar system size and distance scale, including a walking tour the solar system across campus; the importance of dark skies; the Galileoscope; and NASA lunar science. Workshop participants also attended an evening talk on lunar exploration, and a star gazing event at the Sommers-Bausch Observatory hosted by observatory staff and local amateur astronomers. One hour of academic credit was offered through Colorado State University.  

GTTP Workshops in 2009

The ASP and NJACE conducted a pilot Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) workshop the weekend prior to the 2009 annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).

Thirty six educators attended the two-day workshop on Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13, 2009, at the Westin SFO Hotel in Millbrae, California. There were 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 featured 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.

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