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Mick, is that the "astronomy outreach" program that Dave Reneke is running with the people from AstronomyOnline?
I'd be interested in hearing more about what the teachers said.
On the note of educating kids, I took my telescope to my son's preschool last year with a solar filter to show them the sun and talk a bit about astronomy.. unfortauntely there were no sunspots at the time, and I discovered that preschoolers are just too young by a year or two.. a lot of them couldn't close one eye and didn't really know how to look through the eyepiece.
I'm going to take my telescope to my son's kindergarten this year, but I think i've missed the boat with planet season, as now there's only jupiter left and mars is still months away (and jupiter will be gone by then). It's also much easier in EST (not EDST) because it's dark by 5:30, and you don't have to wait until 8pm when the kids are normally in bed.
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