Aware of the need to bring up to date the astronomy-related themes in Secondary Education curricula, and to stimulate interest in astronnomy in the schools the National Institute for Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (INTEF), the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have organized, from 4th to 8th July, at the UIMP centre in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the course entitled " Everythig visible and invisible" aimed at secondary school teachers
The course will comprise two lectures per day by experts in all the major fields of astrophysics (the sun, the solar system and exoplnets, Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology). There will be two panel discussions, visits to the Teide Observatory, and an optional visit to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, as well as workshops on astrophotography, day time and night time observations with professional and also amateur telescopes, among other activitie.
As well as astrophysicists from the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL), talks will be given by researchers from the Astrobiology Centre (CAB-INTA, CSIC) and from the University of the Basque Country (UPV) and also by a professional astrophotographer and teachers from the Department of Education of the Government of the Canaries (see the programme enclosed).
The course will have a duration of 50 hours, of which 30 will be contact hours plus 20 hours of web time. The final day to subscribe will be May 25th, at 12.00 noon.
The directors of the course will be: Rafael Rebolo López, Director of the IAC and Mar Jiménez López, Head of the Department of Training and Institutional Relations of the INTEF.
