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Astronomy Workshop for Tasmanian Science Teachers

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science in collaboration with the University of Tasmania is running at two-day workshop on astronomy for high school science teachers at the Mount Pleasant Observatory near Hobart, 19 - 20 July.
It provides high school science teachers with opportunities to:
* trial "hands-on" activities you can take back to the classroom
* meet and listen to Australian astronomers and talk with them about their work and the cosmos
* learn how to run a viewing night for your students and find your way around the night sky using the unaided eye and small optical telescopes (weather permitting)
* use powerful visualisation and other free software tools and learn how to incorporate them in your classes
and more.

Added by Robert Hollow on 2010-05-03