Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

This proposal presents the card game Exploring Exoplanets (Explorando Exoplanetas in Spanish), designed to introduce children and young people to exoplanetary science through play and gamification. To support its use in schools, a companion booklet provides suggested activities for primary and secondary science classes. The game has generated strong interest in planetary formation among teachers, students, and the general public during outreach events. Both the game and the booklet are freely available in Spanish, with plans to develop versions in other languages and to expand the card set as research in this area progresses.

Biography:

Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University de Santiago de Chile and adjunct researcher at the Millennium Nucleus for Young Exoplanets and Their Moons (YEMS). She holds a degree in Physics Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso and a PhD in Educational Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, España. Her work focuses on active learning in physics and teacher training. She co-founded and was the first president of the Chilean Society of Physics Education (SOCHEF). Between 2021 and 2024, she was part of the NAEC Chile team and leads research on integrating frontier astrophysics into school science, developing a Professional Learning Community supported by the CIRAS Research Center.