Date: 5/9/96 10:49 PM
From: fraknoi@admin.fhda.edu
ANNOUNCEMENT:

THE UNIVERSE IN THE CLASSROOM:
A Workshop on Teaching Astronomy in Grades 3-12

June 22-25
The Westin Hotel (near Great America), Santa Clara, CA

Sponsored by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Coordinators:
	Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & A.S.P.)
	Dennis Schatz (Pacific Science Center)
	David Bruning (ASTRONOMY Magazine)

	This workshop is designed to provide both veteran science teachers
and those brand new to teaching astronomy with a wide range of hands-on
activities, resource materials, astronomy background, and teaching hints
that can be taken back directly to the classroom.  The program consists of
two parts:

* a weekend lecture series and astronomy expo (June 22 & 23) featuring 
	non-technical lectures by an outstanding group of astronomers
	from around the country, explaining such topics as the discovery
	of planets around other stars, the search for life elsewhere, explo-
	ding stars, and  the work of the Hubble Space Telescope. There will   
	also be exhibits of astronomy equipment, books, and teaching aids.

* a 2-day program (June 24 & 25) of hands-on activities and discussions of
	teaching techniques for teachers at all levels (teachers will be
	divided into groups based on the grades they teach and their
	background).  Participants will receive many pages of activity
	and resource handouts to take with them.  We especially want to
	encourage teachers to attend who may be a little afraid of or
	nervous while teaching their unit on astronomy!

	Topics during these two days will include: making your own star
	and constellation finder, a recipe for a comet you can make in
	the classroom, astronomy and computers, everything you have
	wanted to know about black holes and were afraid to ask, teaching
	the phases of the moon without pain, exciting projects in
	astronomy education for teachers, getting to know the planets, etc.

Credit will be available through San Francisco State University.  Previous
workshops in this series have received very positive reviews from teachers;
some have told us they were among the best workshops they had attended
because little time was wasted, and there were specific, easy to use 
activities and materials that they could immediately apply to their own
teaching. 

To receive more information and registration materials please contact
the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Ave., San Francisco,
CA 94112; or call (415) 337-1100; or FAX: (415) 337-5205; or e-mail:
lbaker@stars.sfsu.edu.  Applications will be accepted on a first-come
first-served basis.

WE WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD FORWARD, POST, CIRCULATE THIS INFORMA-
TION TO TEACHERS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED.  THANKS VERY MUCH.