This site is designed to encourage the use of remote internet telescopes in the classroom across the curriculum and is intended as a resource and forum for teachers across the North-East of England.
There are three free to use telecope systems available for teachers to use:
They offer slightly different approaches to the service, detailed further on.
The beauty of these systems is that they lend themselves not only to astronomy content within the curriculum, but can cut across the curriculum into other areas such as ICT, Music, Art and English. Promoting skills development in many areas.
Although these telescopes have been free to access for sometime now, there are still many teachers and students who will not have experienced these fantastic resources. In many cases this can be due to the perception that you have to know what you’re doing with astronomy to get anything out of these resources let alone spread them into other areas of the curriculum within the classroom. To a certain extent this is true, but the focus of this site is to help interested teachers overcome that first hurdle and to develop projects that can be used with these telescopes.
The site is intended to be used in conjunction with a teachers Forum and Virtual Classroom, provided by Stockton CLC, where questions can be answered, topics discussed by all interested parties and on-line instruction provided for these resources as well as the possibility of teaching directly into classrooms across the region.