Citizen Science! by Teacher Academy

Filomena, Italy

prof_montella — 2016-09-19 10:15:11 UTC

With my students I can organize a research activity on the sun . In my country , Triggiano , near Bari , a friend of mine owns the Apollo observatory. His telescope has sunscreens . With my students every day we look at the Sunspots and the activity of the sun

Sonia. Niš, Serbia

sonia7nis — 2016-09-19 11:01:47 UTC

we organize Open Class for meageserment to calculate the circumference of the Earth .

Silvia, Italy

silvia_scandura — 2016-09-19 12:05:58 UTC

We'll participate in the Erathosthenes Project like Sonia, but the opportunities to get involved in citizen science are endless!
I think I'd like very much to participate in the Great World Wide Star Count, I love stargazing with my students and we can read stories about the constellations too.

Daniela, Italy

dcavallar — 2016-09-19 12:24:01 UTC

MEASURE THE SOLAR DIAMETER
HANDS-ON ACTIVITY TO MEASURE THE SUN BY USING HOUSEHOLD MATERIALS.
I love this kind of activity, because is an inquiry based activity and requires very few material to investigate on the Sun radium.
The Sun moves across the sky at an approximately constant rate because of the rotation of the Earth. By measuring how fast the Sun moves, you can work out how big the Sun appears in the sky. All you need are some household items and about 30 minutes on a sunny day.

skywalkers-odysseas contest!!!!

2016-09-19 13:29:32 UTC

2016-09-19 13:37:53 UTC

Manoilă Maria, Romania

2016-09-19 13:37:57 UTC

our school he attended Eratosthenes experiment

construction of a Pluviometer and collect data for the Weather Ragional Agency

marziaboccone — 2016-09-19 13:41:29 UTC

Pluviometer

marziaboccone — 2016-09-19 13:41:31 UTC

Olga Keramida/Greece

2016-09-19 14:02:18 UTC

We are already partners in Eratosthenes project since January 2015 and we enjoy it. Although kids are little aged we learn about space, about sun and earth, our shadow, measure gnomon shadow

Gabriella Ricci

2016-09-19 16:09:55 UTC

I'll join to Eratosthenes experiment on 22 september, like I have done in march. In march my students and I skiped with a Croatian Liceum. It was amazing for my students.

Christina, Greece

christinaefm — 2016-09-19 16:15:40 UTC

My school is thinking to join the Eratosthenes experiment.

Rosa Gaspar, Portugal

2016-09-19 17:26:11 UTC

We will participate in the Erathosthenes Project like other collegues here.
The opportunities to get involved in citizen science are endless!
I would like to participate with my students reading stories about the constellations too. They are too small, Primary child

Kondylo Glarou/Greece

seagullitsa — 2016-09-19 18:21:04 UTC

I will try the History of the Universe

Zita, Romania

b_zita — 2016-09-19 19:55:07 UTC

I'll propose a project based on Galaxy Zoo

Athina Ginoudi

aginoudi — 2016-09-19 20:19:11 UTC

For sure, I will use the "gravity" activity for teaching a) about gravity and b) about elastic collisions. I enjoy this activity and I think students will enjoy it also!!!

Anicet Cosialls

2016-09-19 20:27:35 UTC

Last year we participated in an European Project entitled Odysseus II. We did two projects. The first one about how to determinate experimentally the Moon's density, and the second one about weightlessness in spacetrips..
This year we will try to participate again . The tòpic could be " How to travel to Mars?"

http://www.odysseus-contest.eu/

Soner, Turkey

sonercihanker — 2016-09-19 20:48:28 UTC

I read stories about my students constellations. Do not worry about the stars and the universe, I want them to ask questions.
I'll take you to the observatory located nearby.
I want them to discuss their observations about space.

Hélia Salvado - PT

helisalvado — 2016-09-19 20:51:20 UTC

I had participate in Odysseus contest, Eratosthenes experiment, and in an eTwinning project in the International Year of Physics about light and my students built an espectroscope. This year I'm thinking about repeat Eratosthenes experiment.

Citizen Science

anaelypb — 2016-09-20 00:36:20 UTC

I think I would choose the Cyclone Center project, because in Mexico we have a large coast territory and we are frequently suffering from cyclones.
With this activity students can develop observing skills and ability to separate and classify images that apparently look similar. Maybe a further step would be Galaxy Zoo, where they can watch similar patterns.
http://www.space-awareness.org/es/games/cyclone-centre/

Elisabetta - Italy

2016-09-20 09:18:30 UTC

I'd like to try with iSKY: interesting, and it involves math...

onur oge Turkey

onur_oge — 2016-09-20 11:57:32 UTC

I was already making observations with the students. My students are very curious space . The most recent observations with the telescope will do .and we'll play these games.

Evangelia Chasapi

Evangelia_Chasapi — 2016-09-20 12:49:26 UTC

I am thinking of trying MOON ZOO with my students. It aims at studying the lunar surface in great detail so I think that my students will be excited.

Maria Panou/ Kalymnos, Greece

maria_themelis — 2016-09-20 13:12:05 UTC

A Great course very interesting for students and adult is this one : Learn about the origin and evolution of life and the search for life beyond the Earth. details to : https://www.coursera.org/learn/astrobiology

A very nice source exploring the solar system also, is here :

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/scope.swf
We've enjoyed it when we've learned about world's creation by God. Enjoy it too! I'll try too History of the Universe as it concerned with my subject as I think.

Nuria Muñoz Molina, Spain

algenuria — 2016-09-20 14:45:00 UTC

To start with and feel comfortable, I think I will begin with 2 projects: Cerbeus for students who are not very keen on astronomy but very keen on videogames so I think it's the perfect option in order to encourage them and afterwards continue with a higher level.
And Galaxy Zoo for students who are interested in theme related to space but they are still beginners

Fernando Batista - Portugal

2016-09-20 14:55:58 UTC

I and my students observe the stars with the telescope, especially of recent eclipses. They are very curious about space. We discuss the observations and publish the findings on the school website.

Stefania Mastrapasqua, Italy

2016-09-20 17:40:16 UTC

I teach in a primary school and I am an eTwinner. My students are 10 years old. I would like to make a etwinning project about the Solar System with http://www.solarsystemscope.com/scope.swf
Who want to join us can contact on facebook or www.etwinning.net

Enrica Maragliano - Italy

EMGe — 2016-09-20 17:59:37 UTC

I'm a high school Maths and Physics teacher and I loved the project http://www.space-awareness.org/it/activities/1305/measure-the-solar-diameter/ about the measure of the diameter of the Sun. I think it's a good activity for 12th graders.

Andre

andrea_citta — 2016-09-20 18:00:40 UTC

I am on etwinning, but used it a few. I also am on BOINC project (Quake Catcher Network and other project) but never used them for educational (I am K12 teacher).
I am going to use them soon (as I am also near the recent earthquake, I think student will be interested in studying them).

Elisa

elisa_appiani — 2016-09-20 18:23:41 UTC

I found really interesting the project http://www.space-awareness.org/it/activities/1502/lets-break-the-particles/ LEARN HOW ENERGY CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO VARIOUS FORMS.
Energy is one of the most important topics in Physics and this project could open a lot of citizen Science opportunities in relation to environment, renewable energy sources, future of the Earth.

Galaxy zoo

dellanno_fabio — 2016-09-20 20:43:19 UTC

I am very interested in the activity Galaxy zoo. I think it would be very challenging for students to investigate the shape and evolution of galaxies.

António Faria, Portugal

2016-09-20 21:53:09 UTC

I think I will try Moon Zoo and Rock Around the World with my students.

Pilar Gonzalez, Spain

mgonz442 — 2016-09-20 22:16:01 UTC

I have found several interesting options. I am going to take a deeper look at:

Loss of night.
Radiogalaxy.
The milky way project.
Feel gravity.

This year a teach an optative subject of science and I'm thinking about proving one of these options.
The last one I think I'm going to test it with my physics students.

Anghelina Ciotlos, Romania

angelinaciotlo1 — 2016-09-21 05:09:27 UTC

Tomorrow we will participate in the experiment Eratosthene; Space Week in October to thinking approach to CERBERUS http://www.space-awareness.org/en/games/Cerberus/ games and site http://www.space-awareness.org/en/games/ scope /. I hope the students to be as excited as me, in space exploration.

Ana Martinčević

novoselic_ana — 2016-09-21 06:44:27 UTC

OŠ"Mladost", OSijek

Ana Martinčević

novoselic_ana — 2016-09-21 06:44:27 UTC

OŠ"Mladost", Osijek

Ana Martinčević

novoselic_ana — 2016-09-21 06:44:28 UTC

OŠ"Mladost", Osijek
Reading the ideas of his colleagues I like Galaxy Zoo, Feel gravity and Eratosthenes experiment.
On the Space Math I found another Earth Wandering Magnetic Pole, Magnetic Storms and Solar Wind Bow Shock of what I just related to the material that just work in physics.

Grazia, Italy

graziampl — 2016-09-21 07:41:19 UTC

I can not wait to start in the classroom with activities directly related to the study of astronomy, or to engage in citizen science projects. I like Galaxy Zoo and Cerberus!!!

Monica Boccoli

mobocco — 2016-09-21 07:44:32 UTC

II would engage my pupils in a polar science project about the light in Antarctica and the sun influence on the life. I would start this project in theTwinning platform, but I still haven't found an other European partner.

Sara Golan

saragolan81 — 2016-09-21 15:10:52 UTC

Exciting things are happening in Space Citizen Science for any one with interest: Israeli kids take an active part in designing models for the spaceil project - landing a small space ship on the moon
http://www.spaceil.com/
and middle school students are invited to compete and send an experimant of their own to the international space center- http://ramonfoundation.org.il/space-lab-project/

andriusstorta — 2016-09-21 15:57:49 UTC

I found many interesting programs, and all of them share to my studenst to my padlet and also to my colegs to e diary. Mostly I like the cyclon centre, galaxy zoo, lost at night, feel gravity activity. I planing to use it at lessons as additional material, for. exsample, students can use lost at night app, to write a work about light polution and how it affect us.

Marialena Christodoulidou, Cyprus

marialenachrist — 2016-09-21 16:15:15 UTC

Learning about the solar system will be for me and my students this year. I most probably will use http://www.solarsystemscope.com/scope.swf and applications like Stellarium . Moreover I will definitely use games via Space Awareness website, for example http://www.space-awareness.org/en/games/feel-gravity/

Angela Colli

luriboni — 2016-09-21 16:49:04 UTC

I like Mission: Starlight (UV protection) There a lot of resources for teaching chemistry
http://scistarter.com/project/1961-Mission%3A%20Starlight%20%28UV%20protection%29

Giovanna Wiplinger Croce

giovywip — 2016-09-21 16:49:24 UTC

Moon
Milky way
Solar system
All of them are very interesting topic and my students will be thrilled to engage in one of those project!

Guilherme

gfmarranghello — 2016-09-21 17:47:58 UTC

I liked the disk detective!

José María Díaz, Spain

josemaria_diazfuentes — 2016-09-21 17:48:36 UTC

I like the Moon Zoo and Cerberus both projects. I think it's a great way to introduce students in observational astronomy and geology at the same time. But there are also good ideas to carry them out.

Μaria Kalamara

maria_kalam — 2016-09-21 19:03:35 UTC

I like cerberus. It' s really interesting and the difficulty level is suitable for the students and their first contact to such interactive games

2016-09-21 20:05:04 UTC

Involving students in Citizen Science is definitely a great idea to motivate them but one should be careful about what they real learn and gain from it.

Rosa Di Lonardo

rosadilonardo — 2016-09-22 09:28:08 UTC

Citizen Science for me is to research scientific method and scientific dimension with scientific topic and tools

Planet four

gennaro_elisa — 2016-09-22 12:10:39 UTC

I think that I will use in middle school this application https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mschwamb/planet-four-terrains because students are very interested in this planet and maybe they want to know it more in depth

Theodosis

2016-09-22 13:07:31 UTC

I think an interesting activity would be the introduction of the scientific method on a reserach game app for children!

Carla Italy

2016-09-22 14:14:14 UTC

today my class attend to Erathostenes esperiment (21

Teresa Faustino, Portugal

2016-09-22 15:03:39 UTC

Annalisa De Ruvo

prof_deruvo — 2016-09-22 16:56:35 UTC

Our main topic we’re going to work in a interdisciplinary way is Sustainability and Climate changes. There are several games. I could insert in this work. Feel gravity let students play with gravity and talk about rubbish. It is very simple.

Maria Afonso

2016-09-22 18:17:09 UTC

All the students must be an citizen science because the science is open subject . I am thinking collect data in the project about polution light and used the various tools of ICT ( Wow and Galazy zoo and CEisntein@home) anda see what happens.

Cerberus

mramonperez1 — 2016-09-22 18:34:41 UTC

This game about the surface of Mars could be used in order to introduce Astrophysical instrumentation and talk about telescopes. Also to bring the subject of investment in Science and why is it so important.

Drazena

drazena_potocki — 2016-09-22 20:38:35 UTC

Eratosthenes experiment

Maria Concetta Catalano

cettinacatalano644 — 2016-09-22 22:25:19 UTC

I'm waiting October in order to involve my classrooms in GREAT WORLD WIDE STAR COUNT!!!

Anamaria Golumbeanu

anamaria_go — 2016-09-23 03:20:09 UTC

Every school year I participate with students to the astronomical events like Eratostenes experiment, Space Week, Global Astronomy Month.

Alessandra

bazzarello_ale — 2016-09-23 06:28:56 UTC

I would like to start with a game like Cerberus in order to motive my students and then go on with something linked to astronomical events.

Nikola

2016-09-23 07:09:43 UTC

Yesterday my students participated in Eratosthenes experiment!!!

Claudia Gualandi

gualandi_c — 2016-09-23 07:44:15 UTC

I find very interesting Citizen Science.
I have 7 years old students, so I can’t image how can involve them to Space and astronomy's Citizen Science during this year. I can try to involve myself and then I can think how to introduce Space and astronomy's Citizen Science in my school activities. Although I saw some citizen science projects for also young people, they are about animals.

Diana Stegaru

dya_constantin — 2016-09-23 12:53:33 UTC

I would use The Surface of Mars as a start for a short story about an astronaut sent to this planet and his experience, perceptions and reflections related to the findings.

Cerberus

2016-09-23 14:55:39 UTC

Cerberus

2016-09-23 14:55:46 UTC

I think that I use "Cerberus" with my students because they play and study at the same time.
It will be an exeperience very interestin

Antonino

pulnino — 2016-09-23 14:55:48 UTC

I think that Cerberus is very interesting for students becouse is a way to play in class and involve them in the learning process.

aNTONINO

pulnino — 2016-09-23 14:55:49 UTC

Cerberus

2016-09-23 14:55:55 UTC

I think

Tim Gayton

timgayton — 2016-09-23 15:07:59 UTC

Maybe Cer

Emanuela

manu090762 — 2016-09-23 16:44:03 UTC

I find very interesting citizen scienze; next month I will try to involve students in “great world star count”, “night cities iss”, “lost at night”; I think they are useful to study playing..

Reneta

2016-09-23 17:07:09 UTC

Great bunch of games & materials...thxxx for sharing them! As a teacher in English to young learners, I'd use the Citizen Science concept regarding to children's language skills. Pupils can learn the names of planets & improve their knowledge about the Solar System. Here's my children's experience regarding to our star - the sun. Enjoy! :)

Daniela Leone

2016-09-23 19:41:37 UTC

I registered an account for my school in two sites, COSMOQUEST and GALAXY ZOO. In the next weeks I plan to tell my colleagues first (I'm involved in a teacher training programme). Later on I would like to experiment these resources with students in our classroom.
After some practice to get students confident with the tools, I will organize some group activities. Maybe some translations will be needed in order to use a ready lesson plan (for example the one about circles measurements)

Leila d'Angelo

profleila — 2016-09-23 20:52:04 UTC

As a Maths teacher I find it difficult to collocate a citizen science activity in my curriculum. But it could be interesting, in order to promote citizen awareness in students, choose a project and devote to it a lesson for each discipline in the curriculum.

Kat

2016-09-24 00:54:27 UTC

My students are going to have such fun with this! I have practiced with a few young people and they understood and were faster at using any of the sites for citizen science

Stavroula Lada, Greece

pde4424 — 2016-09-24 07:38:35 UTC

There are plenty of resources to use in the classroom indeed, and for every level of education.

In early ages of Primary school I could use

1) Galaxy Zoo. There, we could compare galaxies of the past with the galaxies of the present, using vocabulary (Language class)

2) Cosmo Quest. In this project, we could mark the circumference of the craters and surface features on high-resolution images of Mars, the Moon, asteroids, and Mercury. As all impacts are almost perfect circles, we could measure and compare (Math class)

3) Night Cities ISS. We could look for our city or the capital city of our country (Geography class)

Catarina Rodrigues, Portugal

canrodrigues — 2016-09-24 08:00:59 UTC

I will try to introduce Einstein@Home to other teachers and the Cerberus Game to my students. Citizen Science is a very interesting project!

Ezzarg

abdelaziz_ezzarg — 2016-09-24 08:43:04 UTC

engage students in inter school experiences and share the results

Ida, Italy

DT22 — 2016-09-24 10:18:33 UTC

Very interesting Cerberus from my students

Carlos Pedro Santos, Portugal

cpscsantos — 2016-09-24 11:47:22 UTC

I will present some of the Citizen Science activities to my students and let them choose which ones they would like to join. I think einstein@home and cerebrum are some they would like to try.

Tina_Galaxy zoo

tinamellos — 2016-09-24 15:47:32 UTC

we could use Galaxy zoo to deal with maths (distances, etc) while comparing galaxies and at the same time broaden the students' vocabulary and history learning while introducing basic space terminology connecting it with the history of them (mythology etc).

Andy_gr

andy_miyiaki — 2016-09-24 16:49:21 UTC

I could introduce Cerberus to my students and work together on it.

It's so great that we can contribute to real scientists' work. I will try to use WOW and night cities with my students

panikkx — 2016-09-24 17:09:29 UTC

Thea_gr

theano_zempani — 2016-09-24 17:28:42 UTC

I think I would try to use Citizen Science with my students.

viki dogani, greece

2016-09-24 18:42:02 UTC

I will use citizen science in class

Dina Cintra

2016-09-24 19:04:25 UTC

I think Cerberus can be a good start to engage students to citizen science!

Patrizia Manca

2016-09-24 20:09:55 UTC

I tried Cerberus and I really think that my students would enjoy a lot

Maddalena Autiero, Italy

2016-09-24 20:55:51 UTC

I found very interesting "globeat Night". I think the students would love to participate in the description of the sky and stars with simple pictures even from smartphones

Lots of Ideas

yvenolan75 — 2016-09-24 21:31:21 UTC

In Ireland, Space and Astronomy have been reintroduced onto the course. I plan to use Cerberus with my first years, the gaming concept will keep their interest. The WOW projects has plenty of interdisciplinary materials that crosses a number of subjects in Irish schools.

Karolina Damjanoska, Macedonia

kdamjanoska08 — 2016-09-24 21:52:52 UTC

Definately I will try GREAT WORLD WIDE STAR COUNT.

Jose Luis Olmo

jlorisquez — 2016-09-24 22:16:38 UTC

I will try Rock around the world and Planet hunters.

I'm agree that science is transdisciplinary, in according to teach Italian I can also engage my pupils to citizen science.

rosafiorenzaguidi — 2016-09-25 05:03:30 UTC

Despoina, Greece

despkaps — 2016-09-25 06:11:47 UTC

Night cities tutorial
Great world wide star count

Petra CZ

bohape — 2016-09-25 06:28:02 UTC

I have never heard about citizen science before. During this week I came across many articles and links that I have to explore and definitely will use some of them in my lessons.

George Kotsoumpos Greece

2016-09-25 06:47:54 UTC

I didnt know about citizen science . I will add this to a project i will do with my students about space

AnnaG, Italy

annag — 2016-09-25 08:19:42 UTC

I didn't know about citizen science. Moreover, I found out this fantastic Spare Awareness Site. As I teach English as a Second Language my first concerns always about the level of English which could demotivate my students. This site gives me a great opportunity.
As far as it refers to class acitvity planning, I'm interested in planning a sort of mixed-reality trip to Mars.

Petra, Czech republic

2016-09-25 08:49:26 UTC

I have never heard about this before. Now I think that it is fantastic!

Gianni Stival, Italy

gianni_stival — 2016-09-25 10:18:38 UTC

I have found really interesting “globe at night” for the data available also for my region. These data can be used for an IBSE work in addition to the citizen science experience.

Massimo, Italy

massimo_pescato — 2016-09-25 10:48:41 UTC

I think that collecting data for a real scientific project could be a great idea. I could ask my students to collect data about the weather and insert these data in the platform suggested in the previous module. And then we could create a database and make queries.

Iwona, Poland

iwona_inka — 2016-09-25 14:19:38 UTC

I think I could start with WOW. It seems to be easy for young students (4th graders) and interesting. They could feel as scientists and as a part of bigger community.

José Gonçalves

eufisica — 2016-09-25 15:59:15 UTC

In my classes, my students participate in the Dark Skies Rangers project. LHC data analysis, etc.

Rodney, Finland

rfrancett — 2016-09-25 16:22:54 UTC

Marina, Serbia

marinasova — 2016-09-25 16:32:47 UTC

With my students I organized debate about the Life in Universe; what is life, limits of life (about the extremophiles) and habitability of the planets.

Torino, Italy

j_hahn — 2016-09-25 16:46:01 UTC

I think using the Great World Wide Star Count as a homework task alongside with a Padlet to share class results, would be a great way to get the students out looking at the stars!...and thinking about light pollution!

Sofia Greece

2016-09-25 18:05:22 UTC

Geography or wether would be great ideas for a foreign language class. The Crowdcrafting environment could contribute to this direction.

Carlos Muñoz. Spain

biologypineda — 2016-09-25 19:02:35 UTC

I'd like to encourage my students about the relation between the Moon and the living beings. But, as I'm new in Space Awareness, I think I should start with something already developed like Cerbeus and Galaxy zoo.

Monika, Poland

monika_j — 2016-09-25 19:27:35 UTC

Just for the start on the English lessons we can talk about the environment and weather conditions on Earth and then we can compare them with the condidtions on Mars. We can use WOW which seems to be the simplest one from the ones you have proposed.

Annamaria, Italy

2016-09-25 20:19:34 UTC

Teaching English as a foreign language I did some lessons on environment and pollution.

Swaroop Suresh, India

swaroop_the_hope — 2016-09-26 01:51:10 UTC

The citizen Science activity which i wish to use with my students is "Eratosthenes activity" to determine the circumference and radius of the the Earth.

By participating in this activity , students would be able to share their results with the other students across the Globe which would help in developing International mindedness

This would also help in using ICT skills

Marija, Croatia

2016-09-26 14:58:52 UTC

Many of this can be used also in /with GLOBE program.

Fragoula Kouskourida, Greece

2016-09-26 19:33:20 UTC

With our 6th and 5th grade our school paricipated in the Eratoshenis experiment and shared information with other schools.It was a great opportunity to collaborate and be young scientists.

Ema Salero, Portugal

emasalero — 2016-09-26 21:13:15 UTC

Most activities are interesting but difficult to implement them in the classroom due to lack of computers. However, the stars of research activities and galaxies can be explained to the students that perform as an autonomous work.

anina4_1975 — 2016-09-27 10:18:50 UTC

CRISTIANA,ITALY
This could be an activity that i can do with my students.
this is year we have chosen a main topic: flight so it could be an activity linked to the topic

Nikos,Thessaloniki

manik1 — 2016-09-27 16:51:33 UTC

U cant use it. Its out of curricula when u prepare students for final exam to pass to the universiy.

Sevi, Gree

sevasti — 2016-09-27 17:42:28 UTC

I didn't know about the term "citizen science", but I am glad that I had the opportunity to learn about it. I will try to add activities in my physics lessons.

Rosaria Marino

marinorosaria60 — 2016-09-27 20:33:13 UTC

I believe that the theme of citizen science is very effective to introduce students to real science. The activity present in Citizen on trips to the red planet and mapping of this could essee very stimulating.

Yann, France

quiritcurie — 2016-09-27 20:37:24 UTC

Never heard of these projects except Einstein@home. I don't know how I could use these projects with my pupils. i have been to galaxyzoo.org , and I think that we could try to describe two or three galaxies. I will try and then we'll see.

Rosa Mazzei, Italy

rosaemme — 2016-09-28 10:06:41 UTC

I think it's very important to teach how to start a research. Nowadays young people have a lot of informations but they aren't able to choose which are correct and useful . The teacher has to lead them to the right way, giving them a scientific topic, the right tools but above all involving them in research activity. The most important part of this work is the international dimension. They can talk to other students and discuss about the project they are studying .

Elisa Saraiva

elisasaraiva6 — 2016-09-28 11:46:28 UTC

I think that most of the activities are very interesting. But its difficult to integrate that in the curriculum when you have to prepare students for final exames.

Mariapia,Italy

mariapia_borghesan — 2016-09-28 19:23:50 UTC

I think that Citizen Science can be a great opportunity for students. They can work as scientists and involve in STEM careers. May be "WOW" is the right project for my pupils (11-14 years old).

Paola

pbosetti67 — 2016-09-28 20:10:06 UTC

Citizen Science is really a chance to involve the students in a real research project. I would like to use some of the ideas I've got learning in this module: Galaxy Zoo is by far my preferred one. Maybe a contest between students would be the way to introduce the different kinds of galaxy. I must let the ideas settle down to build a learning module on space.
Solar System 3D is a good one too, but it works only on android systems, as far as I got it well. It could be used for a research homework the students can do with their smartphones or tablet.
I think I'll definitely introduce citizen science in my science course, starting from the first year students.

In our school I develop a wonderful activity named “Learning by Teaching”. Students of my grades 9, 10 and 11 act as mentors for the students of my grades 6 and 7, guiding them during different scientific activities. This year, my 9 graders were mentors the 6 graders in Eratosthenes Experiment. It was very impressive to watch them explaining the steps of the experiment to their younger colleagues and helping them to perform the experiment. My then 6 graders turned into confident and responsible mentors!

2016-09-28 21:46:09 UTC

Dhurata

2016-09-29 19:26:59 UTC

In our school is very hard to join a project .I work with pupils who have acces in internet.I use some tools :thinklink,sway,animoto,etc.

MItanka, Bg

mimetomt1 — 2016-09-30 06:25:55 UTC

My students enjoy projects and I believe that the ideas I got here will attract their attention but I need more time to prepare for a similar lesson.

Maria Mantzila, Greece

mantzilamaria — 2016-09-30 20:00:13 UTC

Since our school is participating in an astronomy etwinning project called "Take me to the Moon...", i think that I will definitely use the http://www.space-awareness.org/el/activities/1615/know-your-planets/
and the http://www.space-awareness.org/el/activities/1614/sun-earth-and-moon-model/
activities!!!

Luminita Moise

2016-10-01 10:26:06 UTC

Materials made available provides a great richness resources and fully deserves to be studied and applied in activities with students in class or extracurricular.

Yet, two of them caught my attention

GREAT WORLD WIDE STAR COUNT

NAVIGATION THROUGH THE AGES

antonietta rescigno

AntonellaRescigno — 2016-10-01 11:34:51 UTC

I will develop, in my classes, the project on the shape of galaxies that I found in Space Awareness website. I think it is appropriate to start my students to inquiry activity

Ellen Verweij, Netherlands

2016-10-01 12:24:52 UTC

I will use the card game know your planets to help my students to learn which planets we have in our galaxy. They will make the galaxy in groups. I really like the activity of moon zoo. I will go explore if this is suitable for my children.

Manuela Mendes, Portugal

manuelamendes — 2016-10-01 16:54:38 UTC

According to our National Curriculum we teach “light and vision " in 8th grade (13-14 years old), so I am thinking propose to my students, as an autonomous work, collect data in the project “LOSS OF THE NIGHT” about pollution light. I am still waiting October to involve my son and his friends (in 7th grade) in GREAT WORLD WIDE STAR COUNT, to finding Cygnus.

lili_ana_9 — 2016-10-01 18:05:09 UTC

Trasca Iuliana, Romania
Participate in the experiment Eratosthene;

Olga Riscau,Romania

2016-10-02 07:15:04 UTC

I participate World Space Week, experiment Eratosthene, Yuri Night.

Sirkku / Turku, Finland

sirkku_alin — 2016-10-02 14:53:11 UTC

I'm going to try a few activities within our Space Theme later this school year:
- Solar System Explorer 3D
- Feel Gravity
- Planet four: Terrains
- Moon Zoo
- Galaxy

Cristina Anghel, Romania

cristinaiulia_a — 2016-10-02 17:45:35 UTC

I involved my students in several contexts : Erathostene experiment, Transit of Mercury to calculate the distance between Earth and Sun. I intend to try an apps developed by ESA Proba V and Sentinel , to explain to the students how satellites work .

Ana Nojkovska

spasovska_ana — 2016-10-02 21:43:27 UTC

The activities seem more than interesting, but I am not quite sure that I can implement them in my curriculum

Vasileios Boskos

2016-10-03 08:37:12 UTC

Solar System Explorer 3 for students 12 to 13 years old

THE BIG MELTDOWN

2016-10-03 09:42:29 UTC

I would like to use this topic to connect students with climate change, the effects of this, the changing states of matter and the Archimedes principle. This is also cross curricular with geography also.

Gamze Siper/ Turkey

gamzesiper — 2016-10-03 19:55:26 UTC

When I check activities, there are too many good activities. I can use all of them with my students. But especially, I could see “Know your planets”. It is a fun way to learn our planets. And all plans are detailed in this website.

Manuel Augusto Silva, Portugal

magusto — 2016-10-04 20:56:43 UTC

After I sign up crowdcrafting I am looking forward to research the ongoing projects ... there are so many and possible to use in the classroom! All projects are very interesting. Already, I can highlight the Galaxy Zoo for application in the seventh grade.

mbacita — 2016-10-05 12:40:25 UTC

I think I'd like to use the Climate Zone activities because I could use it as a starting point for a CLIL activity with my science colleague or for a speaking activity on almost everything

Citizen Science Introduced during World Space Week

mariekant17 — 2016-10-05 18:53:59 UTC

This week, I am trying to get my 8/9 year old students familiar with the concept of citizen science by introducing them to some of the projects that fit in with the WSW2016 theme (Remote Sensing).
Since we are making satellites our thing, I have made a presentation explaining how sharing the data collected allows citizens to take part in projects such as Cosmoquest, Cyclone Center, GeoTag-X, Lost at night, the Milky Way Project, WOW and Cerberus.

We are also planning to participate in the Great Star Count later this moth.

Ivan Iuliana

iulyanaivan — 2016-10-05 20:26:30 UTC

I would use The Surface of Mars as a start for a short story about an astronaut sent to this planet and his experience, perceptions and reflections related to the findings.

Katerina Atmatzidou, Greece

user_1412487490 — 2016-10-06 06:17:11 UTC

I teach Math in a high secondary level in Greece. Astronomy is not any more in the curricula but there is a school subject called "Project". I find very interesting Citizen Science! It would be an excellent idea to use some of the sources in which we have been introduced in a topic about Space. I am going to design such a project in the weekend for my students ages 15-16 for this semester!

I am thinking to collaborate with my colleagues of Foreign Language, Physics and Literature. I will use iSKY (http://www.space-awareness.org/en/games/isky/) to see the stars and let them know they are far away and try to understand what a light year actually means. The teaching unit ‘iSky: Smart Measurements of the Heavens’ inspires you to investigate the stars. Students could work using various apps on their smartphone (unfortunatelly not in the classroom as the use of cellphones is for bitten in Greek schools. They can use it for their homework ).They learn how to orientate based on the night sky, how to measure the altitude of the Sun, or how to calculate the circumference of the Earth.It is related with the science of astronomy, the Solar System, stars, mathematics.
Collaborating with a Physics teacher would be wonderful! Math and Physics have so many common things!Energy is one of the most important topics in Physics and this project could open a lot of citizen Science opportunities in relation to environment, renewable energy sources, future of the Earth. We can present the problems in graphs and study the equations of them. (http://www.space-awareness.org/it/activities/1502/lets-break-the-particles/)

Moreover I will definitely use games via Space Awareness website, for example http://www.space-awareness.org/en/games/feel-gravity/ to engage students.

Finally with my collegues of Literature we will get inspiration to write an essay about "Future of the Earth". At the end in Foreign Language Class we will search for songs in English about SKY, Space, Stars... and translate lyrics.

At the presentation event we can also sing these songs and perform an theatrical scene of a relevant for a few minutes .

This MOOC made clear to me that imagination and a good start point for activities can make possible any school subject combination! And even more!! Take part in a contest! as for example (http://www.odysseus-contest.eu/ )
Here is a Greek song: "When you're look down from high above " by Kostas Xatzis. with subtitles in english excellent to close the project about Citizen Science. Excellent music and excellent lyrics!

Frances/Ireland: Cosmo Quest: Moon mappers

frances_mccarthy — 2016-10-06 17:08:42 UTC

I'm running workshops about the Moon and have this to show students (only one whiteboard and tight time-lines means it is demo-ed)... with the hope that they will try it at home.

Dalibor Todorovic

2016-10-07 20:03:22 UTC

I founded an eTwinning project SpaCiality - My place in Space which will be completely integrated into curriculum

About the project
This project aims to be an introduction to Space awareness related topics. Students should become familiar with the basic concepts of the Universe and to be aware of time and spatial dimensions in order to inspire a new generation of space explorers.

Almost all of us imagine space as dreamy, mystical, interesting and we all wonder what is happening there. We would like to make students conscious of the events in space in a different points of view - scientific, artistic, religious. With this project, students will raise awareness about the distances in the universe, the different space objects, planets and stars, space exploration and the impact on our daily lives and use their creativity in artistic way.
https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/130831

Space Week

2016-10-07 23:16:30 UTC

Space week has just been in School. Although I am not teaching the topic space, I wanted all years to get a flavor of it and what research is happening. I introduced the story of Rosetta and date the mission completed. I opened the floor to the students to what they wanted to research but the topic had to be space related. My students choose to research the planets with one student wanting to research more about the Rosetta Mission and what data was collected to date. Another student choose to research Spudnik. I was happy- my students were enthusiastic and were asking many questions.

Ida, Italy

DT22 — 2016-10-08 11:08:46 UTC

Adopting the themes of SPACE students can experiment a point of view around the world without human and politics distinctions and improve the interest in STEM disciplines.

Rui Vieira

miguelvieira_com — 2016-10-08 15:52:38 UTC

Portugal

I started trying some activities:
- Solar System Explorer 3D
- http://www.galacticsuite.com/

I f there is enought time I'also try Galaxy and Feel Gravity

I find these activities very usefull to teach space tourism future projects.

Raquel Forca, Portugal

cvivaalmodovar — 2016-10-08 21:33:57 UTC

I will use with my students cosmos quest to show them that they can contribute to the research. Students can understand that we can all play an important role in space research.

Naya Varouta, Greece

naya_var — 2016-10-09 01:39:55 UTC

I liked the Great World Wide Star count because we can use it now during the Space Week also. You can be part of a big international project and truly feel a global Citizen Scientist.

Marina Molla, Greece

mollamarina — 2016-10-09 14:20:20 UTC

All the activities are very interesting. I think that Cerberus would be a fun activity for my students. By playing this game they will help science and at the same time.work like scientists and contribute to this great community...and become a Citizen Scientist

Alfredo Smiglio

alfredo_smiglio — 2016-10-09 15:11:03 UTC

With students of my classroom scienze I organized an evening of star gazing, with photographs and reproduction of large star maps.
The experiment continues and there will be other appointments.

Virgínia, Brazil

v_melloalves — 2016-10-10 22:36:33 UTC

I am planning to propose to my future teachers students to organize a course using these references.

Shane, Ireland

stalty_occ — 2016-10-11 18:06:31 UTC

Id like to get my students involved in astronomy. Even just for one evening so they get to view the moon, shooting stars, comets etc. through a telescope. Plan the evening around a big astronomy event so hopefully they get to view something spectacular.

Marta

martaronca — 2016-10-15 15:20:12 UTC

I have been using Citizen Science activities for the last two years in a csmonlife project about lichens monitoring. But I found all the other suggested CS activities about Space and Weather very interesting and I think I'll try them this year!

Marianthi Arvanitidou - Greece

1canislupus22 — 2016-11-10 14:09:41 UTC

I used it to teach number nine because of Solar system nine planets

Jeane de Fatima - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

2017-02-17 16:43:17 UTC

I did not know Citizen Scienc, I use Stellariun and Celestia as a research source. I am amazed at the knowledge gained in these courses.
Every day I learn more and I am very happy to be able to offer new learning

Carmela, Padova

2017-05-07 16:39:12 UTC

I currently use nightshade but I intend to propose future activities using these references.

Nieves,de la Fuente

nievesdelafu — 2020-03-30 22:30:58 UTC

I have been working with a bitsize bbc p.e. and science and i was so useable for my clases

ortensiogorostiaga — 2022-03-06 17:26:24 UTC

omg