Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

I will show many didactical resources and actual experiences related to naked eye astronomy, developed with children, teachers and elder people. Horizontal reference system, phases, seasons, day and night, movement of night sky, measurements of orbital parameters and of objects of Earth-Moon-Sun system will be presented, as well as methodologies and instruments utilized, all of them hand made by the participants of the activities.

Biography:

Nestor Camino lives in Esquel, Patagonia Argentina. He is Profesor en Fisicomatemáticas, Licenciado en Astronomía y Doctor en Ciencias de la Educación. He is a professor in university and secondary levels working on Educational Research and Teaching of Astronomy. He is an Independent Researcher at CONICET (Education, research plan: Worldviews and Innovative Proposals for the Didactics of Astronomy"). He coordinates NAEC Argentina (AAA-OAE-IAU). His specialty is Research in Didactics of Astronomy, having published several articles and participated and directed research projects and educational innovation. His subjects of interest are the Didactics of Astronomy linked to the subjects of Light, Gravity, Naked Eye Astronomy and Worldviews."