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My astronomical and physics classessenior teacher of physics Tsetsa Tsolova Hristova, PG po KTS, Pravets, Bulgaria,

e-mail:tzetza@gmail.com

Scientixs platform supports teachers networks by regular dissemination and sharing of progress, know-how, and the best practices in the f ield of science education.Teachers can find new resources to stimulate their science classes; request translations of the teaching materials into any of 23 EU languages; suggest new projects, news or

events and make them known among other teachers; join the users community and share their experience with colleagues across Europe.Very useful are possibilities to participate in online courses.

Our school is a computer school affiliated to Technical University Sofia. My students are from 14 to 19years old.We participate in a lot of national and international competitions and projects and in national astronomicalOlympiads. For me it is very important to improve my knowledge and ICT skills and to make my classesmore interesting and attractive.

We built a very simple spectroscope, using everyday materials such as a toilet paper roll and small pieces of a broken old CD.

I. Scientix in my astronomical classes:

1. We were using EU-HOU project to find information how to build a spectroscope.This could be used in physics and astronomical classes.

http://www.scientix.eu/web/guest/resources/resource-detail?TitleResource=How+to+build+a+spectroscope&resourceId=99999941

2. Using SalsaJ from EU-HOU project for measuring the diameter of Moons crater.Step by step using of SalsaJ for measuring of diameter of Moons crater

3. Using SalsaJ for creating a film.

A.One possibility is to create directly a film

B. Another possibility is to create a film using singlepictures saved at SalsaJ .

4. Measuring distances in the Universe: Cepheids using again EU-HOU project resourses.

Teaching materials are available on this web page:

Students study a little about Cepheids as cosmic candle. Using SalsaJ they can do photometricmeasurements. Following step by step instruction they can make Exel curve Lc/Ls anddetermine the period. By Cepheid luminosity (in solar units) as a function of pulsation period and using

http://www.euhou.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=13

formula, students can calculate the distance of the

Cepheid from the Sun.

5. PhET Interactive SimulationsYou can download simulations & activities from the PhET website:http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/gravity-and-orbits

Scientix European Conference6-8 May 2011, Brussels, Belgium.

Physics knowledge is very important for my students as computer specialists.Scientix project helped me to improve my ICT knowledge. It gives me possibilities to participate in onlinecourses and use online simulation to compare different teaching methodics. Using Scientix portal I learnedhow to use moodle in my classes.

II. Scientix in my physics classes:

1. ITEMS (Improving Teacher Education in Maths and Science)http://itemspro.net/courses/elec/electricity.html

The objective of this online course is to provide learning materials forinitial knowledge of electricity aimed at students aged between 12 and 16years. The materials encourage them and enable them to learn by exploring.They are available through the online learning platform Moodle. Simulationsand animations are embedded in the study using Phet simulations:

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After this course teachers have a personal copy of the materials to be usedinteractively with their students online, if they wish.

http://phet.colorado.edu/

2. XPLORA

3. Inspire (Innovative Science Pedagogy in Research and Education

4. Parsel is an interesting project related to energy efficiency and foster citizenship among studentshttp://www.parsel.uni-kiel.de/cms/index.php?id=118&L=0

We used this project to discuss about energy efficiency.Using this project idea students made different reportsand uploaded them at schools moodle.

XPLORA is the European gateway to science education, createdin May 2005. There you can find lots of ideas for labs, onlinetraining, news and more.http://www.xplora.org/ww/en/pub/xplora/index.htm

Inspire is one of the interesting projects related to animation and modeling of physical processes. I made a link to schoolmoodle and students made different experiments and enjoyed them a lot! They said they find physics as very i nterestingsubject.

5. Nanoyou projectMy student was inspired to make a presentation onnanotechnology and the project with its online educationhelped me to support my student with research in thisinteresting area.

6. PhET Interactive Simulations in physics classes.

You can download simulations & activities from the PhET website:http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new

We found very interesting teaching materials, posters, films. Tests helped us to check our knowledge in this new area.Time machine was very interesting,too.

CONCLUSIONSUsing new methods such as LR and ICT-based tools in the classroom has a positive impact on enhancing teacher s scienceteaching and pupils learning in MST education.The Scientix project will help teachers to improve science education in Europe.Students will be inspired to study science. This is an important asset and professors of physics and astronomy in our countrycan use the opportunities for translation of materials in the Bulgarian language and participate in online training which willmake us better and more attractive to our students and this will surely increase the number of people willing to teach physicsand science.

This are simulations, linked to our school moodle, helped students to improvetheir knowledge.

6. Stella web portalOur projects with students : "Dynamics", "Among the mysteries of Mars" and "Sirius" was published atSTELLA web portal: http://www.stella-science.eu/

Following the commands from the instructions you can create a film directly or using the series of single pictures( ) f rame-by- frame f ilm and save as .jpg, fit, or bmp .avi

Sun4all is a very interesting project to study the Sun,it allows students from all over the world to work with realsolar images and accomplish scientific results.

Using project materials students can compare how big arethe Sun, the Solar System and some of the botherbig stars. They also can understand that the photosphereis 16 times hotter than boiling water

There are some of Solar activities of Sun4all project with Salsa J :

- Study sun structure- Sun Spots > Magnetic Cycle of the Sun

- Calculate of Wolf Index(R) using the following formula:R = 10g + s

g - number of sunspots groups observeds - total number of individual spots in all groups

- Calculate the dimensions (in km) of aprominence using SalsaJ.

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- Make a movie of this rotation and other

- Determine the Suns rotation period

6. Sun for All project: http://www.mat.uc.pt/sun4all/