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🔭All things Education at MTU Blackrock Castle Observatory🔭 🛸🛸Look up and Learn 🛸🛸 #spaceweek23
Cork, Ireland
Joined August 2018
Nice new resource from @IAUastroEDU with a template to colour the solar system. Use it as is with young children, drawing attention to big, bigger, biggest. Challenge second level to evaluate 'is it a good model?'
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Space Week Postcards from the Irish Patchwork Society @SpaceWeekIRL.
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Created by members of the Irish Patchwork Society for Space Week 2024. In a postcard swap, each participant is paired with another member and creates a fabric postcard that is popped in the post....
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We're delighted that Dr Aidan Magee of @NCG_Maynooth will be presenting at our 2024 @Esero_ie Space Education Confluence @ExploriumI on 28 September. Second level teachers & teachers in training can register for this event now. #spaceweekIRL @oide_Ireland.
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Did you see the aurora? & do you want to bring this topic alive for your students? Check out these two activities from @POLARSTARProje1 and
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This activity is available in more languages: Suomi Ελληνικά Gaeilge Polski Português Español български Yкраїнська Background Information: Brief Description: Students will follow a guide to
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It's Robotics time for the @clicpolit team. @WROHellas are hosting our international student participants as they share their #LightPollutionSolutions tomorrow morning. All can view at
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Student rocket competition blasts off! Sounds like my colleagues are having a blast! @Esero_ie @blackrockcastle .via @NewstalkFM.
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The skies of Laois have been closed for air traffic - but why? There is a rocket launch competiti...
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My alma mater is offering a live stream for the eclipse on 8 April. Bookmark it now, since Ireland will only see the barest tail end of the event, and not totality.
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Join us for our @clicpolit Student Parliament Briefing tomorrow, 6 December, online. Second level teachers in Ireland - you can register your interest in the project about Climate Awareness and Light Pollution at: #darkskies.
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RT @scienceirel: The SFI Outstanding Contribution to #STEM Communication Award for 2023 goes to @blackrockcastle . @MTU_ie Blackrock Castle….
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Thanks to the whole team @blackrockcastle who support our educational activities in our STEM communication role. Delighted to have been recognised for the work we do.
MTU’s Blackrock Castle Observatory recognised in national awards for its outstanding contribution to science
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Exploring Light Pollution with our @Esero_ie schools workshops for #scienceweek2023, @clicpolit in action with students from @rococork.
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Coming across some great ways to incorporate @SpaceWeekIRL learning in the classroom. How cute is this idea that was used for the @SFICuriousMinds awards last year!
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RT @esaspaceflight: Explore the unknown with @esa's haunted space station tour! 👻 Journey through the eerie corridors of an abandoned @Spac….
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Want to keep @SpaceWeekIRL going in @mathsweek?Bring some space-maths to your junior class with Design an Alien. Learners describe an alien to each other, then physically create their alien from craft material and finally sort them in different ways.
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And the @Esero_ie Space Week Workshops are a go at.@blackrockcastle! Great to have two schools with us and the camera crew from @rte. Look for us being featured on @RTEjr today from 4pm! @SpaceWeekIRL .
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Use the free resources from to run your own event! @SpaceWeekIRL.
Explore STEM by organising or attending a Space Week event in your school or community. Find out what's going on at 👩🚀🔭 @Esero_ie
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Lovely listening to @RTElyricfm yesterday with The Full Score playing Holst's The Planets and hearing that on Friday at @NCH_Music there will be Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra being played live! Great choices for @SpaceWeekIRL.
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@girlandkat @RoySleator @oide_Ireland @Esero_ie With support from @oide_Ireland we are now opening this to all second level teachers. Join us for an inspiring and education-centred morning this Saturday. Zoom links to be sent out shortly, so register to get yours.
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A reminder for second level teachers in Ireland - this free event is still available to book! Hope to see you online on Saturday. @SpaceWeekIRL.
Delighted to be moderating this years #Space Education Confluence for our awesome science teachers as part of #spaceweekirl next weekend. We’re connecting them with exciting research to bring to the classroom. #stemeducation.
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For teachers planning to attend this year's @Esero_ie Space Education Confluence, here is @girlandkat's view on some of the recent headlines.
People. We have not discovered life on K2-18b. We have not even discovered water on K2-18b. It's time to get the marigolds out 🧽, clean up the garbage headlines, and start thinking about how we should be discussing life detection. A exo-bloggity~ 🔗:.
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