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The UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

Norfolk Education Business Exchange

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A Science and Maths Curriculum Development Project by Michael Cripps, Neatherd High School and Graham Colman, Taverham High School, Norfolk, UK

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 Space Observatories in School is a project to produce innovative ICT based resources which will allow science and maths teachers to use the Hubble Space Telescope and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory to enrich the teaching of curriculum science and mathematics at school.

• These new materials are being produced by UK teachers working closely with scientists and engineers involved in the space observatories.

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• The resources are being tailored to the UK National Curriculum in science and maths.  Specific learning objectives will be targeted in each activity.

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• There will be particular emphasis on UK involvement in international science The materials will indicate the career entry pathways that are possible into this area of international science.

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• There will be advice on equipment for hands-on astronomy in school.   This will be related to extending the ideas introduced in the ICT materials. 

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• Loan equipment (two compact Newtonian reflectors and two folded Keplerian solar projection telescopes) will be made available to Norfolk schools.

In the summer of 2004 the two developers worked with scientists, engineers and educators at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and the Goddard Space Flight Centre near Washington.  

It is planned that the resources will be complete by Easter 2005.

All astronomical images on the Space Observatories in School pages are credited ESA/NASA unless otherwise stated