Meeting Tomorrow

TAPT-ers,

We meet tomorrow at J.D. Garcia's house, 3100 E Calle Portal, at 9:00 for potluck breakfast and demo sharing. Hope to see you all there!  New teachers welcome! Bring a demo to share if you can.

Best,

Karie

Einstein Schools Program

The Einstein Schools Program is an IAU100 Global Project that provides an opportunity for classrooms around the world to learn about, explore, and communicate Einstein’s theories about gravity in astronomy during the 100th anniversary year of the 1919 eclipse and experiment that proved his theory correct. (The IAU is the International Astronomical Union.) The program is offered at no cost.

Learn more and register your interest at einsteinschools.org.

Einstein Schools posters have been created to help publicize the program. They are available for download in a variety of sizes (school district approved posters will be available on the Einstein Schools website before the holidays):

Large PDF file (6.1MB):
  https://www.einsteinschools.org/img/Are-you-an-Einstein-School.pdf

Medium PNG file (126 KB):
  https://www.einsteinschools.org/img/Are-you-an-Einstein-School-lg.png

Small PNG file (57 KB):
  https://www.einsteinschools.org/img/Are-you-an-Einstein-School-sm.png

Questions? Contact info@einsteinschools.org.

Best regards,

The Einstein Schools Team

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More information:

The goal of the Einstein Schools is to encourage schools to establish a long-term, playful and creative program to study the ideas of Einstein, how light is affected by gravity, and the origin and detection of gravity waves. Einstein Schools will emphasize worldwide collaboration among schools to:
            • Encourage creativity
            • Encourage exploration through broad questions
            • Cultivate talented youth
            • Excite student interest

The schools will use creative approaches to communicate what students learned:
            • Animations (e.g., stop motion, clay, etc.)
            • Story telling
            • Games (design a new one?)
            • Cartoons and graphic novels
            • Creating an app or simulation
            • Music or song writing
            • Dance
            • Creating physical models
            • Toys (design a new one?)
            • Drama or debate
            • Visual arts
            • Photography
            • Short films
            • Advertisements

The program is:
            • Customizable, & flexible
            • Adaptable for Middle & High School
            • Not a curriculum, but an interdisciplinary project

There will be a special focus on the total solar eclipse in July, 2019, and the next one in December 2020.

As an Einstein School, you will receive:
            • Identity and recognition as an “Einstein School”
            • Curated high-quality internet resources that promote student creativity and engagement
            • Web site for schools to share ideas, progress
            • Opportunities to communicate and work with other Einstein Schools worldwide
            • Opportunities to use robotic telescopes to research the most interesting objects
            • Access to a mentor: Astronomers serve as local or on-line mentors.

Visit einsteinschools.org to find out how to get involved.

Meeting December 8th

TAPT-ers,

We'll meet Saturday, December 8th, at 9:00 at J.D. Garcia's house, [use contact form to ask for address]. New people welcome. This meeting will be a demo share - bring your favorite demo to share. Since everyone is so busy this time of year, feel free to do whatever is easiest for you. We'll do our usual breakfast potluck, and there will be time for book discussion and socializing. As usual, we aim to end by 11:00.

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Karie