Adaptation of the Hands-On Optics Activiites for Small and Large Science Centers

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Jun 2006

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 208, #18.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.99

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Optics

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Hands On Optics and Informal Science Education PartnershipsHands-On Optics (HOO) is a collaborative four-year program to create and sustain a unique, national, informal science education program to excite students about science by actively engaging them in optics activities. Key partners in the project are NOAO, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, and the Optical Society of America (OSA). A vital component of HOO is the partnerships that are being formed with a variety of science centers around the country. We will describe the current partnerships with science centers and the current impact of the programs. We will also describe the challenges of integrating Hands On Optics into existing science center programs. Science centers have different needs than traditional classroom teachers and we will discuss the lessons learned from our science center programs. Our current partners include the New York Hall of Science, the Adventure Science Center, the Orlando Science Center and the Maryland Science Center. We are expanding our efforts to include smaller science and nature centers by partnering Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s program, Astronomy From the Ground Up (AFGU). AFGU will train staff members from 300 small to medium science and nature centers over the next three years, all of which will include some HOO materials.The Hands On Optics Project is funded by the National Science Foundation ISE program. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

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