The project ‘A Touch of Venus’ has developed 20 planetary science resource kits which include a 3D tactile model of planet Venus from NASA’s Magellan data and a book of educational activities with additional helping elements (snapshots of the model to identify some features on it easily, a measuring lace to find features by touch […]
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The Astro Molo Mhalaba project has been selected as the winner of the Women & Girls in Astronomy Prize. In 2019, over 250 events have been organised thus far for IAU100’s Women and Girls in Astronomy initiative. As part of this project, a special contest was organised to recognize and celebrate the efforts of event […]
Activities 1. Maternal teacher training 1.1 Workshop with the theme “solar system at scale” 1.2 Group dynamics with the theme “The Size of the Sun and Planets of our System” 1.3 Lecture on Astronomy Teaching methodologies for pre-literacy children. 2. Training of elementary school teachers I (students 6 – 10 year olds) 2.1 Workshops on […]
The below Press release was published by IAC The second part of the project begins on Tuesday, October 15, in which an international team of astronomers and educators will travel to the refugee camps in Tindouf to carry out outreach activities with Saharawi students and teachers. During their stay in the Sahrawi refugee camps in […]
Article in the news about the inclusive astronomy project (in Malay)