Never Fear; Scaffolding is Here: Solar Research in the Classroom

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...209.0320w&link_type=abstract

2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #03.20; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astronomy Research Based Science Education (A-RBSE) has been a multi-year teacher professional development program sponsored by NSF and administered through the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). Previously TLRBSE, the program reaches the formal education community through a national audience of well-trained and supported middleand high-school teachers. Every year, a new cohort of teachers prepare for research through an on-line course in the spring. In the summer they conduct astronomy research at NOAO, working with astronomer-mentors to gather and analyze their data. They then return to their classrooms and engage their students in inquiry-based astronomy research using the data.
A-RBSE has much to offer teachers both inside and outside the program who wish to initiate research in the classroom. However, the activation energy to conduct authentic research is high. To address the needs of a wider audience of teachers and students, steps have been taken to supply web-based resources for the solar research program. Teachers can use this solar scaffolding to support the implementation of authentic solar research in the classroom. The scaffolding files will serve as a template for other A-RBSE research strands, as well as enable non-A-RBSE middle and high school teachers to download and use A-RBSE data in their own classrooms. These scaffolding resources and future directions will be described in this session.
NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. For further information, visit http://www.noao.edu/outreach/tlrbse/.

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