Science Notes - Support Program for Instructional Competency in Astronomy

Authors

Darrel HoffFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Astronomy education lacks a unified, national support program. The nation's 1,200-1,600 high school astronomy teachers are generally isolated from their peers. As many as 7,000 other teachers would like to develop astronomy courses but cannot find suitable materials. Approximately 20 percent of a typical earth science course is astronomy, and studies show earth science teachers generally have weak astronomy backgrounds. Astronomy resources for elementary grades exist, but, as in earth science, teacher preparation is often insufficient. To remedy these problems a plan, called Project SPICA, has been developed by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Publication Date

Autumn 1989

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

26

Issue

2

First Page

41

Last Page

41

Copyright

© Copyright 1989 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Hoff, Darrel (1989) "Science Notes - Support Program for Instructional Competency in Astronomy," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 26: No. 2, Article 19.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol26/iss2/19