Our goal is to build a community that can be a center for teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, citizens at all levels who have an interest in mathematics education. This is a MUST visit site for mathematics teachers. The University of Bradford has been working for a number of years on the development of low-cost robotic and remote telescopes. Robotic telescopes are also useful in education where students can send observations to the telescope from their classroom and pick up the results the next day. The Hands-On Universe is an education program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy that helps high school students perform genuine astronomical research in their classrooms.
Teacher training is required prior to access to curriculum material.
After receiving thousands of letters from children who were excited by his discovery, Dr. Ballard and a team of associates dedicated themselves to developing ways that would enable teachers and students all over the world to take part in global explorations using advanced interactive telecommunications. Each year a new adventure is available for your students to take part in via real time interactive activities. They do this by approaching the learning of science more like the doing of science, and by employing a broad range of communication and collaboration technologies. Participating students study atmospheric and environmental sciences through inquiry-based activities. Using state of the art scientific visualization software, specially modified to be appropriate to a learning environment, students have access to the same research tools and data sets used by leading-edge scientists in the field.