Welcome to IYA!

The Universe is a big place and there are many astronomy education sites out there so we have highlighted a few sites below as some great places to start.  We are still working hard behind the scenes and will have more information to add soon.

• The Education Pages of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific have a lot of information about projects and activities teachers can get involved with and resource guides for materials they can use in the classroom: www.astrosociety.org/education.html
• The Seeing in the Dark PBS web site has a long page of good activities for teachers: www.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/for-teachers/
• The National Optical Astronomy Observatories Education Page has information about their programs and activities, including Hands-on Optics: www.noao.edu/education/
• Check out “Telescopes from the Ground Up” by the folks at the Hubble Space Telescope: amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/groundup/  (and see all their resources for education at: amazing-space.stsci.edu/ )
• NASA’s Space Science Education Resource Directory allows you to search out NASA educational activities by topic or grade level: teachspacescience.org

The Southwestern Consortium of Observatories for Public Education (SCOPE) has produced a poster for the International Year of Astronomy that contains activities and resources on the back for grades K-12

IYA in the Classroom and in the Home

Coming soon!