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Revision as of 11:17, 6 July 2021
Introduction
Speaker: Monica Talevi, ESA Education
https://educationforms.esa.int/booklet.pdf
STEM Education: Today's challenges:
- Traditional science education is no longer effective today
- Society is confronted with new global challenges
- Economy is rapidly evolving
- Never has the clock been ticking so fast
The strengths of space in school education
- Modern myth
- Contemporary culture
- . . .
Yearly Challenges
- Astro Pi
- Climate Detectives
- Moon Camp
- European CanSat competition http://cansat.esa.int
- Mission X - Train like an astronaut (8-12 yo) http://www.stem.org.uk/missionx
ESERO: Space for education goes national. Also Finland/ Estonia
Paxi the alien and ESAkids (3-10 yo). The most read ESA weboage www.esa.int/kids
The Size of the solar system
Eight Planets. Asteroid Belt. Dwarf planets: Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea.
How big is the Sun (G2 main seq star -- a relatively average star)?
Material: Pen, paper, scissors. Uranus in the middle, Sun and Pluto opposite ends. All other in half. AU; Fractions: Mars: 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, Pluto: 1.
Climate from space
Speaker: Paul Fisher, ESA Climate Office
Weather and climate in the classroom
Do it Yourself 3D printed rover
Clean Space
Speaker: Antonio Caiazzo, ESA Clean Space office
Cleaning space debris
Space exploration activities
The science of Space Movies
EO Browser - Do it Yourself Earth Observation
Virtual tour of ESTEC facilities
Speaker: Robert Willemsen
Space exploration and sustainability
Speaker: Tim Peake, ESA Astronaut
Tea Bag balloon
Building stuff for space - Spacecraft Materials kit & Bionic Hand
How does space benefit society?
Speaker: Amanda Regan, ESA Phi Lab
Artificial Intelligence
Understanding our Earth from Space with Easy-to-Use Augmented Reality Apps
Experimenting with sensors made easy
Exoplanets in a box
Robotics: Mission to Mars
Speaker: Jorge Vago, ESA’s ExoMars Project Scientist
Seeing the invisible
Landing on the moon
Plants on Mars
Extreme Environments on Earth
Speaker: Stijn Thoole, previous ESA-sponsored research doctor at Concordia Station, Antarctica
