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Collaboration As a Viable Approach for Making Astrophysics Research Accessible to the K-12 Community Through the Internet and the World Wide Web

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

Isabel Hawkins ,
Robyn Battle  and
Marlene Wilson
Isabel Hawkins
Affiliation:
UC Berkeley, Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics, 2150 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
Robyn Battle
Affiliation:
UC Berkeley, Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics, 2150 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, Berkeley, CA, USA
Marlene Wilson
Affiliation:
Fruitvale Elementary School, Oakland, CA, USA

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We describe a partnership approach in place at UC Berkeley's Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (CEA) that: (a) facilitates the adaptation of astrophysics data and information from NASA and other sources for use in the K-12 classroom, (b) facilitates scientists’ participation in astronomy education, and (c) engages a sustained collaboration typically including personnel from research institutions, centers of informal science teaching such as museums and planetaria, university-based schools of education, and K-12 schools. We are investigating several ways of engaging scientists in partnerships for the purpose of making their research results accessible in appropriate ways to the K-12 community via Internet and World Wide Web technologies. Our investigation addresses the hypothesis that the transition of scientific data and research results from the workplace to the classroom can be facilitated by the joint creation of curriculum materials by teams of cognitive experts, subject-matter experts, and teachers.

Type
Section Six
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 162: New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , 1998 , pp. 312 - 316
Copyright
Copyright © 1996

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