Education Links
| Association for Astronomy Education | http://www.aae.org.uk |
| RAS Education Committee - competitions for schools and information leaflets. | http://www.ras.org.uk |
| On this site are 4 educational exercises aimed at students aged 16-19, but societies might find them interesting if running any sort of practical astronomy sessions. The exercises all relate to distance measuring. | http://www.astroex.org/english/index.html |
| Project CLEA -- CONTEMPORARY LABORATORY EXPERIENCES IN ASTRONOMY The web site includes assessment papers to test your pupils / members understanding as well. The teacher needs some experience to explain the concepts in some cases. | http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/physics/clea/CLEAhome.html |
| How to weigh Capella | http://leo.astronomy.cz/capella/lab.html |
| Some experiments on Cosmic Rays | http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/javalabs/java102/hess/index.htm |
| Links to a number of astronomy lessons | http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lessons/ |
| Another set of astronomy education experiments | http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/xmm/forteachers.html |
| A lesson on the classification of galaxies | http://www.smv.org/hastings/galaxy.htm |
| Sheffield Hallam University Star Centre | http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/starcentre/index.htm |
| MSAS Community Access Programme - Solar observing in the day & Stars and planets in evening | http://www.msas.org.uk/pve |
| CASE, The University of Glamorgan"s Centre for Astronomy & Science Education | http://case.glam.ac.uk/CASE/index.html |
