Global HOU Conference Abstract List
August 1 - 5, 2005
National Astronomical Observator ies of Chin ese Academy of Sciences
Beijing , China
Day 1 ( NAOC ) : HOU Around the World
10:30 - 11:00 Overview of Global HOU
By Carlton Pennypacker
UC Berkeley
11:00 - 11:20 EU-HOU
By Roger Ferlet
Institut d Astrophysique de Paris
11:20 - 11:40 UK HOU
By Robert Hill
Armagh Planetarium ， Strategy for UK and Ireland
The UK partner is a member of the EU HOU project and is working with European partners to bring the fascination of astronomical observation and image analysis to the classroom using hands-on activities.
It is important that the tools developed for astronomical learning can be made accessible to teachers and that these teachers can understand the relevance of these tools in developing students' awareness in line with curricula in their country.
Armagh Planetarium is a leading educational facility in the UK and Ireland . For the last four years, Robert has been working with local government, industry and educational authorities to realise the benefits of creating a well developed skill based citizen through astronomical endeavour.
This presentation will discuss the strategy that has been central to gaining the confidence of the above mentioned authorities and some of the main outcomes from these activities.
11:40 - 12:00 US HOU
By Alan Gould
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California , Berkeley
University of California coordinates not only US HOU, but Global HOU as well. Our current US projects include disseminating curriculum products to schools, establishing and expanding the HOU Global Telescope Network, and designing the Real Astronomy Experience (RAE) for museum visitors to use telescopes for learning basic astronomy concepts. The US curriculum products include a HOU High School Curriculum developed at TERC in Cambridge MA , HOU Middle School Curriculum called Hands-On Solar System (HOSS), HOU Image.
Processing software and a CD-ROM browser-based course for high school teachers on how to implement the HOU high school curriculum. HOU Teacher Resource Agents remain active and some of their activities are shown on the HOU website at http://lhs.berkeley.edu/hou . Carl Pennypacker does most of the networking for Global HOU, as well as making connections for the HOU Global Telescope Network.
12:00 -12:20 Australian Plans and Progress
By Graeme White
Centre for Astronomy, James Cook University
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14:00 - 14:20 German HOU
By Andreas Kratzer
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
14:20 - 14:40 Sweden HOU
B y Christer Nilsson
The House of Science, Stockholm , Sweden
HOU was introduced in Sweden in the autumn of 1994 as one the first countries outside the USA . The following year two teacher's workshops were organized. Since then more than 200 teachers have been trained (and 40 in Denmark ) in short workshops normally lasting 2 ? days. We also have co-arranged workshops in S:t Petersburg and Sidney . Activity has been low during the last years, but will hopefully increase in connection with the growing EU-HOU program, where Sweden will be responsible for a radio astronomy project.
Responsible organization in Sweden: The House of Science, AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm together with Onsala Space Observatory (radio astronomy), Chalmer University in Gothenburg.
14:40 - 15:00 French HOU
By Michel Boer
Observatoire de Haute Provence
15:00 - 15:20 Morocco HOU ( Project and Prospects)
By Hassane Darhmaoui
Al Akhwayn University in Ifrane
The science curricula in Moroccan middle and high schools do not include any module on astronomy. Our present aim is to convince the local ministry of education about the importance of astronomy in education and propose the adoption of the Hands-On Universe.
15:20 - 15:40 Japan HOU
By Toshihiro Handa
Insitute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo
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16:00 - 16:20 Hands-on Universe in the French "Ateliers scientifiques"
By Martine Janvier
The French "Ateliers scientifiques" will be described, in their originality but also their fragility. From the life of an "Atelier" outside Paris between 1990 and 2000, we will show the important and exemplary consequences of the implementation of Hands-on Universe on the evolution of this "Atelier".
16:20 - 16: 40 A simple Software Tool for Calculus and Graphics
By Alain Bois
IREM des Pays de Loire Nantes FRANCE
One of the exemplary consequences described in the previous talk is the advent of a collaboration in order to design a simple tool for computing and drawing graphics to be used for exercices within Hands-on Universe.
16:40 -17:00 Hands-on Teacher Training for Hands On Universe
By Mehri Fadavi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
Department of Physics Atm. Sci. &Gen. Sci.
Jackson State University
Jackson , Mississippi USA
This presentation will discuss the components of a Hands On Universe Teacher Training Program and provides eighteen lessons learned when implementing successful teacher training workshops. These “lessons learned” provide insight for what should be addressed in the planning process in order to overcome possible obstacles and challenges. The “components” section gives information about how to organize and present a successful proposal for providing teacher training.
17:00 - 17:20 Plans and Progress for HOU in China
By Hongfeng Guo
National Astronomical Observatories, CAS
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Day 2 (NAOC) : HOU and Curriculum and Activities for the Classroom
9:00 - 9:40 The World-Wide Relationship of Curriculum to Science Understanding and Achievement
By Hsing Chi Wang
9:40 - 10:10 Science Education and Distance Instruction in China
By Zujun Qin, Hongbo Zhang
Beijing Educational Network and Information Center
This paper is in terms of scientific education mainly, to give our viewpoints for several aspects, which is about China scientific education system and remote education development, more about the new educational reform of China. At the end it will overview the development of the network scientific education, combining education of science with modern distance instruction.
[Keywords] scientific education, distance instruction, network
10:10 - 10:40 Astronomy Education in China
By Zhiliang Yang
Beining Normal University
This talk will report the Astronomy Education, Especially the Education for Graduated Students in China . It will includes mainly the following aspects: (1) The Background Knowledge of the Graduated Students, (2) The Graduated students Program, (3) The main fields for graduated students (4) The Trainning in Astronomy, (4) Requirement for the Master and PhD degree (5) The jobs after Graduated Student Program. The talk will present study and life of the graduated students in the Universities and Astronomical Observatories in China .
10:40 -11:00 Network Application in Astronomy Education
By Dawei Yang
Hebei Normal University
Tell about the author, how make good use of network going on long distance teaching, timely renew textbook and solve a knotty problem.
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11:15 - 11:30 Astronomy Public Education at Universities in China --Hairong Jing (BJP)
By Hairong Jing
Beijing Planetarium
At the present day, the astronomy public education is not very popular in China . At primary school, junior middle school and high middle school, there are not astronomy course. So most of the university students do not know this subject a lot, but they have the requirement to understand the universe. In this paper, we first investigate and analyze the university students' requirement for the astronomy. Then we introduce the astronomical elective courses which are opened in China , especially in Beijing 's universities. At last, we produce some plans and ideas which can make the astronomy education go a step further and much more students will accept the astronomical knowledge.
11:30 - 11:45 Middle Schools and HOU
By Jeremy Amarant
SAGE Planetarium, Palmdale
11:45 -12:00 Getting Astronomy into the Northern Ireland Schools
By Robert Hill
Armagh Planetarium
Engaging the next generation through astronomical endeavour Following on from the short presentation on day 1, the purpose of this talk will be to show how Armagh Planetarium has managed to gain recognition of the importance of astronomy in schools, local government and the general public and how this has been made possible and implemented throughout UK and Ireland.
12:00 - 12:15 Some Aspects of Teachers Education in Germany
By Karl Gloeggler
ZLL, Technische Universit?t Muenchen
In Germany the school systems and therefore the education of teachers is not property of the federal government but of the states' governments. So the schools and the teachers education differ a bit from state to state in Germany . At the Technical Univerity of Munich we offer two studycourses to educate: 1) teachers for vocational schools and 2) teachers for grammer schools / high schools. Teachers for vocational schools have to study a professional field, a subject and educational sciences, teachers for high schools two subjects and educational sciences. Post graduation every teacher has to attend two years teachers training at a school."
14:00-14:30 International Assessments like TIMSS and PISA in a Swedish Perspective
By Jan Engstedt
Director of Education, The Swedish Agency for Education
The talk will give a short description of the international assessments TIMSS and PISA , its purpose and its outcomes. Also, the Swedish national evaluation NU-03 will be described and its outcome compared with the international assessments.
There are both advantages and disadvantages associated with international assessments. The benefit is that your outcomes can be compared with nations that have similar and different conditions and the following analysis will guide you hove increase your educational system. There have been critical arguments like politicians who believe that the school system must globalization without taking any consideration of your national aspirations.
The student achievements in Sweden have declined both concerning mathematics and science. The talk will interpret the Swedish debate and also try to give answers how we can proceed for stimulating students talking mathematics and science not only for higher achievements but also for their own sake of satisfaction.
14:30 - 15:10 The House of Science and Hands on CERN – Two Outreach Projects in Sweden
By Christer Nilsson
The House of Science, Stockholm , Sweden
The House of Science was established in 2001 within AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm , Sweden . We invite teachers to bring their classes to do experiments, take part in demonstrations and listen to talks in a university environment. The classes are received by students and young researchers who guide them through the different activities. Our fields are astronomy, biotechnology and physics. During 2004 The House of Science had around 20 000 visitors. Our homepage: http://www.houseofscience.se.
Hands on CERN (HOC) was developed after an initiative from the Physics department of Stockholm University in co-operation with CERN. HOC uses real data from the DELPHI detector in the LEP accelerator at CERN (at present being rebuilt for the Large Hadron Collider, LHC). 1000 Z 0 events and 500 W + /W - -events are used to analyse the different ways these carriers of the weak force disintegrate. These analyses enable the students to make simple hypotheses regarding the branching ratios in these reactions, ratios which can be checked by their statistics from the Z 0 events (and by theoretical data from the Particle Data Group in Berkeley ) . The students can also obtain a value for the strong coupling constant, a S from their data. Working with the HOC software the students learn a lot of particle physics! The homepage of HOC is: http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/.
15:10 - 15:30 Astronomy as a G ateway to Physics
By Mona Engberg
University college of Dalecarlia
15:45 -16:15 TUMLab im Deutschen Museum
By Andreas Kratzer
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Deutsches Museum in Munich is one of the oldest technical museums in the world. It was founded more than 100 years ago by Oskar von Miller. This talk will discuss new challenges for a moderne museum of this kind. The idea of a laboratory for visitors will be introduced and the plans for the “TUMLab im Deutschen Museum ” will be explained. Hands-on Universe should play a lively role in the lab. For the beginning, the target group are high school students (12 – 18 years old) and teachers (in-job training). But our plan is to create courses for additional groups
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16:15 -16:30 Jupiter Project 2006
By Misato KOSUGE TokyoTech. High school of science and technology
'Jupiter Project' is an international cooperative observation project organized by Hands-On Universe. "Trace Io's orbit!!" is a part of 'Jupiter Project', which is theme for students. It aims to observe the Galilean satellites Io for 42 hours continuously, which is Io's orbital period, or longer by relaying various night time locations around the world. The relay continued about for 37 hours in 2004 and 2005. Participant take images of Io with Jupiter and upload them to the project's web site. It's easy activity even for students. Then participant can use collected images for HOU activity. We need more participants for success. We welcome participant of school. Of course we need support of professional and amateur astronomers. Let's enjoy together!
16: 30 - 1 7 : 00 Shobbrook RAE Demo
By Alan Gould
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California , Berkeley
I can demonstrate aspects of Real Astronomy Experience (RAE) for museum visitors, but mainlythe introductions to activities that lead up to real-time use of telescopes. RAE is not yet functional live with a remote telescope, but only a telescope we have a Lawrence Hall of Science,right in the exhibit hall where the museum visitors are. We expect live RAE remote telescope functionality by the Sept 2005. Although we have no way of directly linking RAE activities with an Australian telescope yet, if a telescope is operational, we can demonstrate how it is used, independently of the RAE activities.
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Day 3 (BJP): Popular Astronomical Education in China
9:10 - 9:30 Beijing Planetarium and Chinese Astronomy Popularization
By Jin Zhu
Director of the Beijing Planetarium
9:30 -9:50 Exhibitions in the New Beijing Planetarium
By Bing Li
Beijing Planetarium
9:50 - 10:10 Crossing the Boundary Between Man and Heaven: Astronomy in Ancient China
By Xiaochun Sun
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
10:10 -10:25 HOSS for Technical Education
By Keizo Nonaka
Nishiotokuni Prefactural High School
A case of HOSS practiced for a technical education class of 9th grade junior high school students.
10:25 -10:40 Public Outreach in Astronomy
By Hidehiko Agata
Education Doctor , Associate Professor
Director of Public Information Office
I want to introduce the present condition about the 4D Digital Universe Project of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan . This Project will aims; (1) Development of sphere 3D vision technology. Making it possible to enjoy 3D vision image in the
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Day 4 ( ZGC High School ) : Telescopes
11:15 -11:50 The AMSAT-DL Mars Phase 5A Project - A Satellite to Planet Mars
By Herrmann Hagn and Dominik Kuhlen
Physik Department E15 AMSAT-DL
AMSAT is an international collaboration of interested individuals, engineers, and scientists. Most of them are also operators in the amateur radio service. AMSAT-DL, the German organization of the international group of AMSAT societies, already constructed, built, launched, and operated six satellites so far enabling long distance communication on VHF, UHF, and SHF frequency bands allocated to the amateur radio service in the Radio Regulations of the ITU-R. But, besides amateur radio communication there is always a scientific experiment on board.
The next satellite, AMSAT-Phase 5A , will be an interplanetary mission with a landing vehicle (balloon) to measure the atmosphere of planet Mars. Prior to this experiment, there will be a forerunner mission launching the Phase 3E satellite into a highly-inclined elliptical Earth orbit (HEO) testing the coherent transponder that is required for precise navigation to Mars. The P3E-satellite will be launched next year.
One key element in the mission is an appropriate and reliable ground station to control the satellite any time from launcher separation until the end of mission under all flight conditions. The communication distances to planet Mars is quite large. Although sophisticated amateur ground stations can listen to the signals directly, their receive signal power will be insufficient for mandatory command and telemetry data transfer. Two professional deep space ground stations which were out of operation have been re-activated by AMSAT-DL to serve as reliable communication links.
These stations and the work performed by AMSAT-DL to bring them back to operation will be presented and real-time connection to the stations via internet demonstrated. The presentation will also include observations made on stellar radio sources in the Cassiopeia and crab nebula.
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11:50 -12:00 Internet Public Observatory at Xinglong Station, NAOC
By Xiaojun Jiang
National Astronomical Observatories, CAS
We are building an Internet Public Observatory at Xinglong Station. The observatory consists of a wide-angle camera, a Celestron C-11 OTA on Paramount ME , a Coronado solar telescope and a 60cm Cassgerain telescope. The observatory is scheduled to open to the public by the end of 2005, in this talk we will report its current progress.
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13:00-13:30 In the Shadow of Giants: Science with Small Telescopes
By Terry Oswalt
Florida Institute of Technology
Despite a common assumption that 'bigger is better,' small telescopes continue to contribute to some of the most spectacular recent astronomical breakthroughs. To those that use them, it is clear that there is much cutting edge science still to do with small telescopes during the next decade. This talk will focus on scientific projects that are ideal for the growing network of GHOU telescopes. Real research projects like those to be discussed in this talk help train the next generation of scientists, improve the K-16 science curriculum and, perhaps most importantly, can engage the general public in the scientific process.
13:30 -13:45 HOU Telescopes and System Architectures Plans
By Carlton Pennypacker
UC Berkeley
13:45 -14:00 Results from Faulkes
By Robert Hill
Armagh Planetarium ， Strategy for UK and Ireland
Young people worldwide are curious about the Universe, and intrigued and excited by astronomy. Information is readily available from television, books, magazines, the web and astronomers but few schools have the facility to do “real” astronomy.
The Faulkes telescopes are the largest in the World dedicated to the public understanding of science. They offer access to two large (2-metre) robotic telescopes, for schools to carry out “real-time” and “off-line” astronomy during UK / Europe classroom hours. The telescopes, which are two storeys high, are housed in state of the art enclosures that open like clam shells.
The project is backed by educational materials created specifically to support the use of these unique facilities within the UK National Curriculum.
The UK-HOU partner is currently working with EUHOU partners to bring the excitement of these telescopes and observations to Europe and beyond. This short presentation will highlight how users can interface with the telescopes and some of the latest pupil-research projects that are taking place in the UK and Ireland .
14:00 -14:15 Small Radio Telescope for Research or a New Curriculum on Radio Astronomy By Toshihiro Handa
Institute of Astronomy , University of Tokyo
Radio astronomy is one of large sections in modern astronomy and provides many important results to understand the “evolving universe”. On the other hand, radio astronomy is useful to recognize the limit of human sensitivity. However, only little systematic curricula are available for public outreach and education in school, although many short courses on a part of radio astronomy have been proposed. Therefore, Japan HOU members have started to make a new curriculum on radio astronomy. Although the project has just started and has not yet produced any products, I will present its scope and preliminary outline of our curriculum. I will also give some comments on current radio astronomy using a small radio telescope.
14:15 -14:30 Chinese Schmidt Telescope and Contribution to the GHOU Network
By Xu Zhou
National Astronomical Observatories, CAS
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14:30 -14:45 Remote Control Telescope System
By Qingsheng Zhu
Nanjing Astronomical Instruments Research Center
Research the technology of telescope Remote control system, introduce the remote control system developed for KPW serials telescope.
14:45 -15: 00 A Description of HOU in a High School Astronomy Class
By Carl Katsu
National Earth Science Teachers Association
The national science standards in the United States recommend that all students acquire the knowledge of the scientific method. It is preferable that students learn this by actually conducting science research at the level of which they are capable. In my year-long astronomy class for high school juniors and seniors, my students do original research with data made available through the National Observational Astronomy Observatory in Tucson , Arizona . In teaching the techniques to do real astronomy research, I am limited by the school budget to free or inexpensive resources. Among the high quality materials I have available are the lessons from Hands-on-Universe (HOU). The units I use from HOU have proven to be an excellent resource for teaching my students about measuring the light curves from variable stars.
