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| Paper: |
How Students Explore Space with Slooh's Online Telescope and Our Standards-Aligned Learning Activities (commercial session) |
| Volume: |
537, ASP 2022: A Virtual Conference |
| Page: |
100 |
| Authors: |
Boisvert, J. H. |
| Abstract: |
Attendees of ASP2022: Slooh is giving away free accounts to attendees of our session! Get your free account by emailing education@slooh.com before Friday morning. Please write "ASP Attendee, Claiming my free account," and let us know your name, school, and the grade level you teach (elementary/middle/high/higher ed). We will try to set you up in time for the session. It is not required in order to participate. Slooh is a vibrant community of students sharing their knowledge and discoveries of the Universe using an arsenal of ten powerful telescopes. We have created a scalable way for unlimited students to explore space with online telescopes at premier observatories in the Canary Islands and Chile. Our opportunity lies at the intersection of digital education and the new space age, inspiring educators to look for ways to incorporate space exploration into the curriculum. With our standards-aligned, experiential learning activities—Quests—Slooh takes students beyond simulation to collect and analyze their own data as they master a new, real-world domain. Quests are well-sequenced, standards-aligned observational astronomy lessons that use Slooh's Online Telescope to capture images of celestial wonders while learning about specific aspects of astronomy, history, anthropology, and other STEAM topics—keeping students engaged and excited to learn. Join us during this webinar session as our goals are to tour the platform, look through the live telescopes, and go through one of our experiential learning activities, Quests. During the session, we will make the choices that students make on Quests and build the activity's culminating infographic poster as a group using Zoom's built-in tools. We will show some tools for educators for student assignment and monitoring. There will be time for questions and discussion at the end. Slooh's Online Telescope is an equitable way to bring the Universe back to the students so they can directly engage with space and gain a cosmic perspective. Before Slooh, only science educators with a passion for astronomy could bring space into the classroom. Now any educator can do it! |
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