Solar Cycle School Activities

This is a poster presented at the 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education, organised by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE, http//astro4edu.org).

Title: 
Solar Cycle School Activities

Presenter:
Hani Dalee (Qatar)

Under the affiliation to Qatar Astronomy Olympiad for School 2024, educators have gone through a unique activity that allows students to get a good idea about sunspots and the solar cycle activity. In that aspect, schools were asked to purchase (or borrow) telescopes to be used for sunspots observations. Educators have formed an Astronomy Team at each school, this team has received the basic training about the project and how to convey it to other students at their school. Between 200-300 students from each school (69 schools) have attended the activity which was divided into two parts; observing sunspots via projection method, and listen to an interactive "lecture" from "All" team members. More than 10,000 students have gone through this project in less than two weeks.

About the 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop:

The 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop took place:12 - 15 November 2024. The Shaw-IAU workshops focus on astronomy education for primary and secondary school students and teacher training both in universities and in service. This year's workshop featured two special topics: an exploration of the first two years of the James Webb Space Telescope for the scientific topic, and the crucial aspect of evaluation in educational contexts as the non-scientific topic.

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