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Evaluation workshop day 1House of Astronomy

Heidelberg

Your name Sævar Helgi BragasonYour organisation Stjornufraedivefurinn1. Who were the participants? Kindergarten teachers1. Who were the participants? a. Age 30-551. Who were the participants? b. Number of participants 20

2. What was the activity? Website address:

Workshop for kindergarten teachers, with special emphasis on the Earthball. Earth/Moon/Sun interaction, day and night, seasons, eclipses, stories of the constellations. No website with English text, unfortunately.

2a. What were the activity goals?

Teach the teachers how to make a good use of the Earthball in the classroom. Giving them the self-confidence to teach astronomy to young children. Inspiring them to look up.

2b. Describe the activity

Hands-on activies with the Earthball to show day and night, seasons etc using similar activies as in the Earthball booklet. Smaller balls to explain Moon phases. Stellarium used to tell stories behind the constellations.

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Morning2d. Activity duration 121- 180 mins2e. Who delivered the activity? (tick as many as apply) Educators, Volunteers2f. Activity format Teacher training session2g. How was it advertised? Website, Targeted email, Social Media3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location Reykjavik3. b. Country Iceland

4. How did you evaluate it? a. What did you want to know?

Haven't evaluated it. Want to know if this had any success, if the teachers started using the new knowledge in the kindergarten.

Your name Sarah Eve RobertsYour organisation EU-UNAWE1. Who were the participants? British School of the Hague students1. Who were the participants? a. Age 91. Who were the participants? b. Number of participants 272. What was the activity? Website address:

Space Scoop Storytelling:http://www.unawe.org/activity/eu-unawe1316/


- Getting familiar with astronomy and science journalism and improving creative thinking, literacy and teamwork skills.- Learn about the latest scientific discoveries happening in astronomy.- Practise and develop language and art skills

2b. Describe the activityUse Space Scoop astronomy news stories for children as the basis for a creative writing and drawing activity.

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Afternoon2d. Activity duration 61- 120 mins2e. Who delivered the activity? (tick as many as apply) Students, Communicators/ NPM2f. Activity format School session2g. How was it advertised? Targeted email3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location Classroom3. b. Country the Netherlands


If the listed learning objectives/goals were achieved.If the children enjoyed the activity; were inspired by the topic and motivated to continue learning about science/ astronomy.

4b. Who were you evaluating it for?

EU-UNAWE project and all users of this workshop (the activity guide is public).

4c. Which methods did you use? Interviews with students post activity (not recorded.)

4d. What did you find out?

The children were very excited about the topic covered (black holes, supernova, exoplanets) and had a lot of questions still to be answered. Appeared that they would follow up the subjects in the future.

4e. What were the challenges?Many of the learning objectives would not be visible without a future session, or in the short-term.

4f. How did you communicate what you found?

Verbally within a small group, and by improving the learning goals.

4g. What are the implications of the evaluation?

Unfortunately, unsure for now as the activity took place just once and we have not been in contact with the school teachers or students since.

Your name TomitaYour organisation Wakayama Univ, Japan1. Who were the participants? nursery children a. Age 3-5 years oldb. Number of participants 802. What was the activity? Website address: so far only in Japanese


Let children express what they feel and think as much as possible.Let children exchange what they express as much as possilbe.


Talk about today's weather,Talk about starry world, sometimes fantasy,Endless question-and-answer sessions

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Morning2d. Activity duration 30- 60 mins2e. Who delivered the activity? Educators2f. Activity format School session2g. How was it advertised? personal connection3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location nursery3. b. Country Japan


How much the children express what they feel and think.How much the children exchange what they express.


Nursery teachers observe the children, and they explain their memo to me.

4c. Which methods did you use? Hearing from nursery teachers.


Some children say many words than every-day activities,that is surprising to teachers.Some children do like discussing with friends.Though the children's expressions are not scientific, children try to explain hard about their thinking to friends and teachers; that is surprising to teachers.

4e. What were the challenges?

Memo of teachers is not complete.Some teachers make good memo, but others not.

4f. How did you communicate what you found? I would like to know how to access the memo.4g. What are the implications of the evaluation?

Children already have enough base for scientific discussion.

Your name Jean-Christophe MauduitYour organisation IAU Office of Astronomy for Development

1. Who were the participants? lecturers & students1. a. Age adults between 25 and 401. b. Number of participants 15


Introducing astronomy teaching for undergradshttp://www.astro4dev.org/activities/astrovarsity/unizulu-workshop/


The goal was to present them the AstroVARSITY teaching project in more details and see how it could be implemented at the University of Zululand.


the workshop at UNIZULU was aimed at presenting the practical part of the AstroVARSITY project to potential lecturers and tutors as well as discussing ways of implementing it into the curriculum. The idea was to present them the instruments (telescope + photometer), their basic working principle and how to use them. We also planned to give them an overview of potential projects that can be done with it, in terms of practicals and small research projects as well as potential in terms of education and public outreach. Moreover we include a brief presentation of the kind of tutorials that could be done with the students as well as the possibilities of Virtual Observatory projects.

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Full day2d. Activity duration 3 days

2e. Who delivered the activity? (tick as many as apply) Students, myself2f. Activity format Teacher training session

2g. How was it advertised? Website, Printed material, Targeted email, Social Media3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location University of Zululand3. b. Country South Africa


Feedback on google form: http://www.astro4dev.org/activities/astrovarsity/unizulu-workshop/unizulu_workshop_feedbacks/

4b. Who were you evaluating it for? For the office4c. Which methods did you use? Only online feedback4d. What did you find out? Successful outcome and general satisfaction

4e. What were the challenges?Unfortunately only a few responses (hence limited sample) although importance of feedback was emphasized

4f. How did you communicate what you found? Only internally for now (within the office)4g. What are the implications of the evaluation? Moving forward on the workshops in other universities

Your name Edward GomezYour organisation Las Cumbres Observatory1. Who were the

participants? Anyone1. a. Age 10-21 year olds

1. b. Number 15002. What was the

activity? http://lcogt.net/agentexoplanet


Make measurements and scientific discovery about exoplanet, without detailed technical knowledge of software.


Participants use a custom website to measure and analyse exoplanet data. Everyone's results are combined to produce a final exoplanet model with physical parameters

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Anytime

2d. Activity durationParticipants can do as much as they like but usually between 30-90 mins

2e. Who delivered the activity? (tick as many as

apply)Either independently or with a research astronomer to assist

2f. Activity formatSchool session, Community/ public session, Citizen science data collection

2g. How was it advertised? Website, Social Media

3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location online

3. b. Country N/A

4. How did you evaluate it? a. What did you want

to know?

Did our approach succeed in allowing participants to concentrate on the science and science process instead of learning how to install and use software.

4b. Who were you evaluating it for? Myself (the developer)

4c. Which methods did you use? Likert scale and "2 stars and a wish"


Many students enjoyed the activity but made suggestions about improving it.


Getting well phrased questions which don't introduce bias.

Your name Hassane DarhmaouiYour organisation Al Akhawayn University in ifrane1. Who were the participants?

Teaches, students, amateur astronomers

1. a. Age 18 to 651. b. Number of participants 362. What was the activity? Website address:

Web2 technologie, Ifrane, Morocco 2013


Train diiefent actors in agricultureon the use of Web 2 technologies


Workshop onWhat is Web2?Social networks?Audio/Video techniquesReal applications in Agriculture

2c. What time of day Full day2d. Activity duration 2.5 days2e. Who delivered the activity? Educators, Volunteers2f. Activity format Resource2g. How was it advertised? Website, Targeted email, Social Media3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane3. b. Country Morocco4. How did you evaluate it? a. What did you want to know?

Level of satisfaction of the traineeThings they got fromthe workshopThings they liked or dislaked

4b. Who were you evaluating it for? Karianet Association4c. Which methods did you use? Questionnaire4d. What did you find out? Good and encourqaging appreciations4e. What were the challenges?

The number of respondants of the onlinequestionnaire

4f. communication Email4g. What are the implications? Repeat the workshop for another group

Your name Enrique TorresYour organisation IVIC1. participants? Teachers at basic school in Venezuela1. a. Age between 20 and 30 years old1. b. Number of participants 252. What was the activity? Website address:

UNAWE-VENEZUELA Actual program of building of Schools Planetariums, at the City of Merida


Teach to the teachers the way to build a geodesic school planetarium and use it with the pinhole star projector and also with an video projector for astronomy and general science education at schools


Introduction: Workshop description, methods and objectivesSchool Planetariums and UNAWE: Importance and constructionTriangle Cut for planetariumDome buildingProjector constructionTesting and calibration of projector: Introduction to the Celestial Sphere and ConstellationsMultimedia instructional strategies for teaching science in the planetariumSummary, conclusions and directions for further work

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Full day2d. Activity duration 3 days2e. Who delivered the activity? Educators2f. Activity format Teacher training session2g. How was it advertised?

Website, Targeted email, education ministry at venezuela

3. a. Location Mérida, Venezuela3. b. Country Venezuela


the teachers learn the way to build the planetariums, but not all are really shure to build it by themselves

4b. Who were you evaluating it for? for better the program

4c. Which methods did you use?

forms at the end of the workshop and phone calls 1, 2, 3 months after the workshop


that maybe 30% of the teachers build new planetariums, a 40% wants but have obstacles at their schools


better the methods of teach to use the multimedia resourses

4f. How did you communicate what you found? by informs and web articles4g. What are the implications of the evaluation?

better the results and obtain more of the objectives

Venezuela (contd.)

Your name Olayinka FagbemiroYour organisation Nigerian's Space Agency

1. Who were the participants? school kids- pre-school to high school1. Who were the participants? a. Age 3 to 17years1. Who were the participants? b. Number of participants around 200 in groups of 10s2. What was the activity? Website address: Water rocketry

2a. What were the activity goals?To teach kids about water rocket launch and have them replicate the activities


Some water rocketry kits were used and the kids were taught the basics of water rocketry and how to launch it and have them do it themselves

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Afternoon2d. Activity duration 30- 60 mins2e. Who delivered the activity? (tick as many as apply) Educators, Students

2f. Activity formatFestival activity, School session, Teacher training session

2g. How was it advertised?Printed material, Targeted email, Invitations sent to schools

3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location School premises3. b. Country Nigeria4. How did you evaluate it? a. What did you want to know?

We marked the distance each launched rocket travelled

4b. Who were you evaluating it for? The agency

4c. Which methods did you use?to see how kids were able to replicate what they were taught


a number of the kids were able to reproduce what they saw and had very good launches

4e. What were the challenges?we had limited kits(resources) and had to take too many kids in a group


we wrote a report at the end of the activities


To show the impact of the team's activities on the kids, to measure their reception and understanding

Your name Mark BaileyYour organisation Armagh Observatory1. Who were the participants? Primary School Teachers1. Who were the participants? a. Age 18-651. Who were the participants? b. Number of participants 10-20 per course2. What was the activity? Website address: Primary Sector Teacher Training Course


To provide a basic level of knowledge and understanding of modern astronomy to Primary School Teachers and provide them with fact, knowledge, links to other resources etc. to that the information provided, and astronomy more generally, may be incorporated into the curriculum. Thus: to provide (a) and introduction to the principal features of the solar system and Earth's place in the wider Universe; (b) to gain some understanding of scale and of relatives sizes and distances in the solar system and beyond; and (c) to show how this can all be incoporated as examples in the relevant Curriculum.


A series of interactive talks, discussion sessions and engaging activities provided to small groups of Primary Sector teachers as part of a whole-day activity in a teacher centre or other appropriate learning centre used by teachers for teacher training.

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Full day2d. Activity duration Whole Day2e. Who delivered the activity? (tick as many as apply)

Professional teacher trainer and professional astronomer

2f. Activity format Teacher training session2g. How was it advertised? Printed material, Targeted email3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location Teacher Centre

3. b. Country

UK and Ireland (e.g. England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland)

4. How did you evaluate it? a. What did you want to know? Feedback forms (two types)


Ourselves (feedback on quality of course, delivery mechanisms, comments from participants)

Impact on (a) participants and colleagues, and (b) on the pupils they either reach directly or reach indirectly through colleagues (i.e. wider dissemination)

4c. Which methods did you use?

Completion of feedback forms and requests for further information after time had been given for the impact of the course(s) to be registered within schools)


Courses very positively received; often too little time for complete discussion of all issues raised during the course; there is an ongoing need for further courses of this kind; the "best" (i.e. most often appreciated) resources are those that are (a) simple in concept and (b) cheap and so readily procured of fabricated by the teacher, given classroom and resource constraints.


Enthusing a group of professional teachers with a subject (astronomy) which many of them will have had very little experience of, and demonstrating its value in the wider context of teaching and learning in the school environment and especially the Primary School curriculum in the different regions of the UK and Ireland.

Cost; i.e. time and money required to deliver each course, c. 5k pounds per course. The course is perceived by schools and by funding agencies as expensive, given the relatively small numbers (c. 10--20) of professional teachers reached per course.


Through internal and annual reports of the Armagh Observatory and the EU-UNAWE programme.


There is an ongoing need to provide more primary-sector teacher training in astronomy and related sciences.

Northern Ireland (contd.)

Your name Pedro RussoYour organisation UNAWE Leiden

1. Who were the participants?General Public (Mainly school pupils)

1. Who were the participants? a. Age 4-85 yl1. Who were the participants? b. Number of participants 3800


Transit of Venus 2012 in Timor-Lestehttp://www.unawe.org/network/national/tl/


Give the opportunity to the public observe and understand the transit of Venus


Public observation of transit of venus. through telescopes and solar glasses.

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Morning2d. Activity duration 5 hours2e. Who delivered the activity? (tick as many as apply) Educators, Students, Volunteers2f. Activity format Community/ public session

2g. How was it advertised?

Website, Printed material, Targeted email, Publication, Social Media, Mass media

3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location Dili3. b. Country Timor-Leste4. How did you evaluate it? a. What did you want to know?

Quantitative: Number of people attending

4b. Who were you evaluating it for?For our project, donors and supporters

4c. Which methods did you use?We count the number of people looking through a telescope.


Unique astronomical phenomena attract large crowds Difficult to engage in a deeper level with participants.

4e. What were the challenges? Manage large amount of people.4f. How did you communicate what you found?

Draft report, presentation at CAP2013


Large scale, measure number of people.

Your name LiviaYour organisation University of Sao Paulo1. participants? children1. a. Age 6-8 years1. b. Number of participants around 120


Using the 3.4 "Universe in a Box" activity named "Sun’s Path and a Sundial" for 6 different groups of children.Pictures are here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lhqhln143csf9l8/5moBTr0L8l


- the shadow changes accordingly the sun's position. - the sun’s path on the sky changes during a year - the sun's path changing is related with the year seasons.


We paid attention on how the observer’s shadow changes depending on the sun’s position. Then we concluded that the biggest observer’s shadow happen at both sunrise and sunset moments, and the smallest observer’s shadow happens at noon.Before I drew the three sun’s paths on the half-sphere (summer, spring/autumn and winter) using washable markers, I invited children to think what we could draw on the white paper to fill the observer’s landscape. So I drew streets, houses, lakes, cars and trees according to children’s suggestions. This part was important to guarantee children were understanding the idea of local observer’s view and what the half-sphere was representing. I didn’t need to define the half-sphere for any group because they naturally understood all elements. We couldn’t reach neither “Other parts of the world” nor “Sundial” topic due to lack of time. Each class is 40min long.

2c. What time of day? half in morning, half in afternoon2d. Activity duration 30- 60 mins2e. Who delivered the activity? Educators2f. format School session2g. How was it advertised? it's a regular event in that school

3. a. Location public school in my home town, near Sao Paulo3. b. Country Brazil

4. How did you evaluate it? a. What

did you want to know? Whether my goals were reached.4c. Which methods did

you use?Looking at the children behavior during the activity and their questions about it.


The 30cm diameter half-sphere is too small to be used with 20-25 children. I had to manage children’s position many times, so I separated them in smaller groups. That consumed many minutes.


I adapted the activity for the youngest group and spent most of time relating shadows with sun’s positions. They really liked the shadow movement according to the flashlight.

The oldest group wanted to think how the sun’s path is in another country after the sunset for our observer. So we used a globe and two little dolls glued on the globe to simulate sunrises, noons and sunsets for different places. They were very excited.

4f. How did you communicate what you

found? by the UNAWE report form.4g. What are the

implications of the evaluation?

It can help me to see what didn't work well and make changes for the next activities.

Brazil (contd.)

Your name Zhu DayiYour organisation Shanghai Astronomical Observatory

1. Who were the participants? artists,visitors1. Who were the participants?

a. Age 16-401. Who were the participants?

b. Number of participants ＋ 5000


http://www.astron.ac.cn/bencandy-4-3435-1.htmhttp://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_537c9d930100k6ed.html （ for pictures)http://www.douban.com/event/12244667/ http://vision.xitek.com/info/201007/14-47590.html (professional photographer web ）


Through the exhibition to inspirit and influence the artists, let them to influence more people to know about astronomy,How beautiful the universe is,let more people .Give astronomy a label of "fashion" and "romantic". Artist class belongs to the class of ideology in nowadays China, represents the fashion and frontier.


The theme of the exhibition quoted the buddhist scriptures“ 相由心生”（ the figure comes from your mind ） ,we changed one character : 心 (mind)to 星（ star) ， as" 相由星生” .In addition to cut the ribbon on opening ceremony,we invited scientist give the audience a lecture,for the interpretation of the images. most of the audiences is resident artists in this art space. (some of them is the invited artist of the Venice biennale)otherwise,we rearrangement the Use exhibition contents by people interest in the constellation.Star image content is according to the order with zodiac constellation, e.g.the crab nebula in Taurus. when mention of Taurus, the image of M1 will appear.The exhibition has been lasted for 45 days.During this duration,over 5000 visitors.

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Full day

2d. Activity duration 45days2e. Who delivered the activity?

(tick as many as apply) Educators, Image technology suppliers

2f. Activity format Festival activity, Community/ public session2g. How was it advertised? Printed material, Social Media

3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location

M50 art centre(biggest art centre in Shanghai)

3. b. Country PRC4. How did you evaluate it? a. What did you want to know?

The popularity and can be continuity in the future

4b. Who were you evaluating it for? The organizers & sponsors

4c. Which methods did you use? exhibition,lectures.


Many people seemingly has nothing to do with science , but people love the stars, they have a strong curiosity on astronomy. In addition, the curator's point of view is very important.

4e. What were the challenges?Otherwise,Excellent display project book is very important.


Local media.They reported a lot of this exhibition.Both art media and fashion media


The combination of art and astronomy is a very avant-garde and fashion. Need to do more such activities in the future.

China (contd.)

Your name CharlotteYour organisation EU-UNAWE

1. Who were the participants? young girls

1. Who were the participants? a. Age '8-11

1. Who were the participants? b. Number of participants 6-8 per group

2. What was the activity? Website address: Invent an Alien


Introduce the properties of planets and moons and how they affect life


- Give an introduction/presentation about the properties (e.g. atmosphere, temperature, distance to sun...)- give them an example of a life form based on a planet/moon- give factsheets of each planets/moons- Ask the children to choose one planet/moon and invent - draw a life form that relates to the properties -

2c. What time of day did the activity take place? Afternoon

2d. Activity duration 61- 120 mins

2e. Who delivered the activity? (tick as many as apply)

2 interns science writer & one intern designer

2f. Activity format Festival activity2g. How was it advertised?

3. Where did the activity take place? a. Location Bruxelles International school

3. b. Country Belgium

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