Astronomy workshop for teachers of A-level Physics - Events

Astronomy workshop for teachers of A-level Physics

Nationwide, England (North West)

24. 02. 12

The National STEM Centre is hosting a free, full day event on Friday 24 February 2012.

This event will be led by Tom Lyons from the National STEM Centre, Dr. Sarah Roberts from the Faulkes Telescope Project and Dr. Charles Barton from the Department of Physics, at the University of York.

Anyone teaching A level or GCSE Physics or the astronomy section of GCSE Science will benefit from this event.

To register your place email ken.fielding@northlindsey.ac.uk

Programme

0930 Registration and coffee

1000 The lens equation and making a telescope (Tom Lyons)

1100 Coffee/Tea

1115 Universe in your classroom – projects using the Faulkes Telescopes (Dr. Sarah Roberts)

1215 Lunch

1315 Stellar astrophysics - Stars, blackbody curves, spectral classification and how to plot an HR-diagram (Dr. Paul Roche)

1415 Coffee/Tea

1430 Cosmology – Doppler Shift, Hubble’s Law, The Big Bang and Dark Energy (Dr. Charles Barton)

1530 Questions, issues and evaluation

1600 Close