... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Annual Conference "Connecting People to Science" was held July 30-August 3, 2011 at the Tremont Grand in Baltimore, Maryland. ...
... Perhaps surprisingly to people outside the field, many educators object to "teaching relativity in grade school" on the grounds that students as young as ten lack the intellectual sophistication necessary to form a meaningful notion of the equivalence ...
... nowhere to turn but the heavens, a thousand people face tragedy under an ancient sky ... I wondered how many other people had bothered to gaze at the Moon on such a special ...
... If we can bring people to understand how these terms are used, then we wouldn't have ... One effect of such misunderstandings is that people overreact when they hear about ...
... Mike Aubrey, a senior at West Henderson High School in North Carolina, was facing a problem not uncommon to young people involved in the study of science. ...
... To most people, the stars are just points of light, each one like the other. ... To astronomers, however, stars are as varied as people. ... are as many different kinds of stars in our galaxy as there are people on Earth ...
... 26 No. 2 . March/April 1997 . Special Issue: Astronomy and Young People . ... Isn't it time we listened to the young people themselves? ... Why Do People Strive To Develop Science? , Caroline Poon . ...
... using astronomy to attract young people into science and engineering, understanding ... People appreciate the practical applications of space science, such as remote ... but it is not so severe there, since people accept the need to understand the ...