From the Earth to the Universe

I have stumbled upon an awesome astronomy site celebrating the year of astronomy called From the Earth to the Universe. It is designed so people can organise their own exhibition showcasing breathtaking images of astronomical bodies. I will be using the images in the classroom to stimulate learning... I am coming up to teaching the EM spectrum and this fits beautifully as the images are from many areas of the spectrum. Perhaps during science week you could encourage your IT people to put on a new desktop image every day for your students. Download or just play their trailer.

Check out what people have done all over the world to use these amazing images. Perhaps you can apply for funding to set up your own exhibition by applying to ASTA to run an event during science week. Or just grab some students, laptops and projectors some extension leads and head down a dark alley with a white wall to put on a show that costs next to nothing. Mentioned on the site are approximate costs of Platinum, Gold and Silver events... these costs are not paid to FETTU but approximate costs that they figure you will have to fork out to host your own exhibition... personally i can't see why it couldn't be done on a shoestring.

(I have been very quiet of late, apparently life can get in the way of blogging rather than the other way around! Looking forward to CEGSA!)