Uncovering the Universe

Aim

Different aspects of the universe are to be covered in K-12 classrooms as part of the Indiana standards. It is worrying to see that "the universe'' of a large part of the student population reduces to the Earth, the moon and a few planets. We think that there is a real need for helping K-12 teachers get confident on teaching about this subject. The final aim of the proposed service-learning course is to prepare teaching units for different K-12 levels, to take them to classrooms and to distribute them to the interested science teachers in the state.