Check Inpe's openings for free courses aimed at teachers and science promoters in the online and EAD modality. Applications will be available until June 20th.
The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) is offering vacancies in free online and distance learning courses for the 21st Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics Course (CIAA). Among the topics of the free courses are: Celestial bodies, such as stars, comets, star clusters, galaxies, planets and nebulae, as well as phenomena that form outside the Earth's atmosphere.
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Discover free astronomy and astrophysics courses
With the activities taking place in the EAD modality, the free courses will take place on the 9th, 11th, 13th, 16th, 18th and 20th of August and registration for vacancies will go until the next 20th of June. The vacancies of the free EAD courses are for middle and high school teachers that are linked to the area of science, involving disciplines such as physics, biology, chemistry, geography, mathematics and history.
University students from the third semester on exact sciences will also be able to participate, as well as other professionals who are directly linked to the area of science and education dissemination. This year's free online and distance learning courses in astronomy intend to receive students from other Portuguese-speaking countries.
To complete your registration, CLICK HERE and access the INPE website
Understand how the classes of the free astronomy and astrophysics courses will be taught
Astronomy and astrophysics courses will be transmitted only to those selected through the Webex Meetings, a digital platform, in a virtual private environment.
Students of distance learning astronomy and astrophysics courses will be able to present all their teaching experience in the round tables, an extra activity of the course. The workload of the courses is 25,5 hours, in which there will be, in addition to classes, activities such as round tables, presentations and lectures.
The courses have been organized by Inpe's astrophysics division since 1998 and since then, around 1.200 students have taken the courses, among them university students and professors of formal education from various Brazilian regions.
Words from the Master in Astronomy at USP
In addition to talking about daily astronomy, the free EAD courses also talk about the solar system, galaxies, stars, astrobiology, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and gravitational waves, says André de Castro Milone, Master in Astronomy at the University of São Paulo ( USP).
The first themes are directly linked to the National Common Curricular Base for Secondary Education (BNCC, MEC 2018) and were also included in the elementary school content grid.
He claims that day-to-day astronomy involves the topics days and nights, solar calendar, seasons, moon phases, ocean tides, moon and sun eclipses.
