Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot - Educational material
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From knowledge about our planet to sustainable practices!
An educational programme that simultaneously awakens children's interest in science, a sense of global citizenship and responsibility for the world around them!
„Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home.“
Carl Sagan
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The project
The Pale Blue Dot Program (BPP) for primary schools linkes STEM topics with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Through stories, illustrative experiments, models and animations, the children's interest for research and at the same time their global sense of community and responsibility for the world around them are awakened. In the various modules, the students actively explore the unique nature of the earth and are encouraged to act sustainably and protect the climate.
The program was developed by the astronomers Dr. Cecilia Scorza-Lesch and Christine Freitag from the Faculty of Physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, with the support of the Bavarian Savings Bank Foundation. The project's headquarters is the Institute for Teacher Training (ILF) in Gars am Inn.
Pilot programmes
The first pilot projects were realised at the "Institut für Lehrerfortbildung" (ILF) in "Gars am Inn".
In international cooperation with astronomers from the International Astronomical Union (IAU), pilot projects of the programme have already been offered in Armenia and South Africa.
The following are some impressions to give you an idea of our project.
"ILF Gars am Inn"
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South africa Office of Astronomy for Development OAD
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Armenia Office of Astronomy Education
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