All About Asteroids
In 2016, Asteroid Day was declared
by the UN to be a global day of education to raise awareness about asteroids,
their role in our solar system and the need to use science and technology to
increase our knowledge and ability to protect humanity from dangerous impacts
and facilitate future exploration.
Witty International School is
committed to the holistic development of each child through an academic
programme which enhances learning by putting the child at the centre of the
programme. Students learn through inquiry, making learning fun and effective
through innovative methodologies which best fit their learning styles and
engage them in meaningful and thoughtful ways, providing opportunities for
experiential and authentic learning. A workshop on ‘International Asteroid Day
– Lets find them before they find us’ was organised for the students of grade 6
to, on 30th of June, 2018.
The workshop was conducted by Mr. Sameer Mathewho is
currently working as Senior Research Scientist at Society for AppliedMicrowave
Engineering and Research, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology,
Govt ofIndia, IIT Bombay. In 2016, Mr.SameerMathe established a startup firm
named as ARC EDUCATORS for providingAstronomy and Space science education for
school and college students in India.
Mr. Sameer Mathesuccessfully held the workshop, where the goal of
the event was to increase awareness amongst students and teach them about
near-earth asteroids and comets and the threat to Earth which might be imposed
by them. He focused on how, what we as global civilization can do to protect our ecosystems, cities
and families from space hazards like near-earth asteroids has been addressed as
well.
Mr. Sameer used tactile models
as the main teaching tool and incorporated different visual aids in creative
ways to appeal to the students. The activity conducted succeeded in conveying a
taste for astronomy to the students. They learnt how to make the connections between
educational concepts, hands-on experiences, and real-world applications.
Students learnt some basic facts
about asteroids in our solar system, mainly about the size of asteroids and how
that relates to the potential danger of an asteroid colliding with the Earth.
Students were briefly introduced to the destruction that would ensue should a
large asteroid hit, as it did 65 million years ago. The seminar gave students
an opportunity to individually investigate scientific concepts. Students
completed individual and team projects in which they formulated questions,
researched different topics on asteroids, designed an experiment, collected and
analysed data, and formed a conclusion based on their work.
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