1. Update on ESA Education activities & ECSITE space themes 2016-2019
Monica Talevi, Head of STEM Education and Outreach Unit
ESA Education Office
ECSITE Space Working Group meeting
Porto, June 2017

2. Education ≠
Outreach !

3. Education = a process which aims at the development of know how, competences and skills through a structured path and methodologies that take into account the abilities and development stadium of a learner
Outreach = ‘reaching out’ aimed at inspiration and creation of awareness

4. European Space Education Resource Office
ESERO
European Space Education Resource Office
ESA’s main project in support of
school education

5. ESERO deliverables
Primary & secondary school-level teacher training (pre-service and in-service)
Curricular didactics materials & resources (lessons, experimental kits, etc)
Coordination of national projects and national participation in European educational projects (mainly curricular, extra-curricular when appropriate)
Active participation and contribution to the ESA-ESERO Working Groups
Priorities of Member States drive the activities
ESA added value
National co-funding
Balance freedom vs coherence
Trying to represent all ESERO-added value – i.e. things that would not exist / be done without ESERO

6. ~10000 + teachers trained & ~300000 pupils reached

7. ESERO keeps growing! Nordic ESERO (NO, SE, FI) Operational
ESERO Denmark
Preparation on-going!
ESERO UK
Interest received
ESERO NL
ESERO Ireland
ESERO Germany
ESERO Luxemburg
ESERO Poland
ESERO Hungary
ESERO Belgium
ESERO Romania
ESERO France
ESERO Switzerland
ESERO Austria,
ESERO Italy
ESERO Portugal
ESERO Czech Republic
ESERO Spain
ESERO Greece

8. ESERO keeps growing!
Denmark: Astra - The National Centre for Learning in Science, Technology and Health, selected as ESERO host organization; contractual preparation being finalised. Objective: start autonomous ESERO Denmark in Summer 2017
Spain: Parque de las Ciencias (Granada) selected as ESERO host organization; contractual preparation being finalised. Objective: start ESERO Spain in Summer 2017
Greece: joint ESA/ Greek Ministry of Transport and Education information workshop for potential ESERO operators held in Athens in May. Five national partners expressed interest; national call out soon. Objective: start ESERO Greece in Autumn 2017
Hungary: Orion Space Generation Foundation selected as ESERO host organization. contractual preparation started. Objective: start ESERO Hungary second half 2017
Italy: joint ESA/ASI information workshop for potential ESERO operators held on 17 November; ESERO-precursor teacher training activity took place in December at ASIs premises (Astro Pi training). National call out soon .Objective: start ESERO Italy in Jan 2018
Luxemburg: ESERO-precursor activities planned with IFEN - a 1-day teacher conference to be run by ESA at IFEN’s premises in Nov 2017; e-robotics lab teacher training delivered. Consultations started nationally with the Luxembourg Science Centre
Germany: consultations on going with DLR. Objective: start ESERO Germany in date TBC
Rocket Seeds: after several months on board the station, packages of rocket seeds were returned to Earth on Soyuz 44S, for their distribution to the children in the UK schools as part of the Seeds in Space activity. Approximately 5000 participating schools will plant both flown and non-flown seeds and scientifically record and compare the growth of each group.
Astro Academy: Principia: all recorded, using specially designed hardware. The videos aim to show physical phenomena which are difficult to demonstrate in Earth’s gravity environment, such as kinetic gas laws, harmonic motion, oscillating motion, collisions, and conservation of momentum. Final product release in September 2016.
Astro Pi: First, three deployments of student-written codes were successfully completed for the AstroPi activity, which aims to promote computer programming literacy, good scientific practice, and space awareness. AstroPi VIS (visible light camera) ran the codes Crew Detector, Minecraft, Reaction games, Radiation Detector and Watchdog in Columbus, while AstroPi IR (infrared camera) ran the codes Flags and EnviroPi in Node 2.
Additionally in spring 2016 British students were challenged to develop programmes which would turn the AstroPi into an mp3 player for Tim to use. Uplink of student programmes planned for end April/beginning May.
As an ambassador of the activity, Tim kicked-off the Mission-X: Train Like an Astronaut program, which is an international educational challenge focusing on fitness and nutrition to encourage students to "train like an astronaut".
IFC: Cosmic Classroom In-Flight Call took place on February 2nd, 2016, a the World Museum in Liverpool, where several young students, from the 300 pupils on-site, had the opportunity to ask Tim Peake questions, while over followers tuned in on the live stream. STEM Edu in the classroom took place on April 14, in Oslo, York and Warsaw. Hundreds of teachers watched live, thousands followed the stream.

9. Education at ESA: progressive learning from the classroom to European challenges
activities
National
challenges/
activities
Classroom activities
Project-type activities
From lessons to project-type activities
Project-type activities
Coordinated by ESEROs
by ESA

10. ECSITE '16 Living and working in space

11. ECSITE ’16: Living and working in space
Classroom resources/activities
Primary:
Updated ISS kit: various activities
Food in space: packing food for a space travel
Taste in space: our senses in zero-G
Astro-pi: monitoring our vital environment in zero-G
Mission X: train like an astronaut
Secondary:
Food from Spirulina
Seeds in space
Could chamber: radiation in space – secondary
Major points of progress in 2013
ESEROs in 4 new MS, bilateral discussions with some others
Big investment in defining overhaul of classroom resources – now moving into implementation phase
ESERO Network
Follow up of existing ESEROs activities
ITT and contract negotiation process for new ESEROs
Independent review of ESERO activities in order to identify strengths, gaps and potential for exchange of best practice
Classroom resources
Via ESEROs (Reis door de Ruimte translation)
Via partnerships (National Space Academy, Faulkes telescope)
With Directorates (esp. SRE, HSO)
Own initative (CanSat kit, Lego Education)
Teacher Training
Via ESEROs (accredited CPD and informal workshops)
With Directorates (Summer Workshop, GTTP)
Hands-on Projects
Own initative (CanSat + new opportunities on BEXUS & LDC)
With Directorates (CESAR, Mission X, SPHERES, Volare)
Competitions
With Directorates (Explore the High Energy Universe)

12. ECSITE ’16: Living and working in space
Classroom resources/activities:
experiments around ISS mission of astronaut Thomas Pesquet
2 sets of 3 classroom activities (chemistry, biology) each developed with National Space Academy
Target: primary (3 activities) + secondary (3 activities)
Kits and PDF documents (EN and FR) ready mid January 2017; physical kits for distribution in France only; protocols available on line

13. ECSITE ’16: Living and working in space
European Astro Pi school challenge
Pilot: UK, Tim Peake mission,
European challenge: Conceive a science experiment and write a code to run it
Target: up to 16 y/o
Learning objectives: working scientifically, coding, physics
Tool: Astro-Pis on the ISS – 2 small computers with a set of sensors (movement, humidity, temperature, pressure, radiation), an IR camera, a visible camera
Classroom resources (incl. kits) & teacher training executed: ESERO UK + ESERO PL + 2 ESA/RPF English webinars (185 live participants); 1 ESA/RPF French webinar (75 participants) ; teacher training day delivered by ESA at ASI’s premises (20 participants)

14. Astro Pi kit

15. ECSITE '17 Is there anybody out there?

16. ECSITE space WG project with Ciudad de les Arts I les Ciencies
ECSITE ’17: Is there anybody out there?
New ESA Space Exploration school challenge
to be ready for school year
Looking for life means asking questions
What enables life on Earth?
What can we call ‘habitable’? ‘hospitable’?
Can man live on another celestial body?
How far can man go today? tomorrow?
What means do we need to get to another planet?
What do we need to survive the trip and build an outpost?
Can there be alien life outside Earth?
What kind of life?
How do we look for it?
Major points of progress in 2013
ESEROs in 4 new MS, bilateral discussions with some others
Big investment in defining overhaul of classroom resources – now moving into implementation phase
ESERO Network
Follow up of existing ESEROs activities
ITT and contract negotiation process for new ESEROs
Independent review of ESERO activities in order to identify strengths, gaps and potential for exchange of best practice
Classroom resources
Via ESEROs (Reis door de Ruimte translation)
Via partnerships (National Space Academy, Faulkes telescope)
With Directorates (esp. SRE, HSO)
Own initative (CanSat kit, Lego Education)
Teacher Training
Via ESEROs (accredited CPD and informal workshops)
With Directorates (Summer Workshop, GTTP)
Hands-on Projects
Own initative (CanSat + new opportunities on BEXUS & LDC)
With Directorates (CESAR, Mission X, SPHERES, Volare)
Competitions
With Directorates (Explore the High Energy Universe)
ECSITE space WG project with Ciudad de les Arts I les Ciencies

17. ECSITE ’17: Is there anybody out there?
Classroom resources/activities
Primary:
Get into space:
NEW: Junior CanSat
NEW: Spacecraft material kit
Rocket booklet
Move on Mars using robots:
NEW: LEGO ‘We Do’: mechanisms, electric engine, programming to move
Look for life on Mars:
Two Paxi animations (Mars/Alien life-ExoMars)
Major points of progress in 2013
ESEROs in 4 new MS, bilateral discussions with some others
Big investment in defining overhaul of classroom resources – now moving into implementation phase
ESERO Network
Follow up of existing ESEROs activities
ITT and contract negotiation process for new ESEROs
Independent review of ESERO activities in order to identify strengths, gaps and potential for exchange of best practice
Classroom resources
Via ESEROs (Reis door de Ruimte translation)
Via partnerships (National Space Academy, Faulkes telescope)
With Directorates (esp. SRE, HSO)
Own initative (CanSat kit, Lego Education)
Teacher Training
Via ESEROs (accredited CPD and informal workshops)
With Directorates (Summer Workshop, GTTP)
Hands-on Projects
Own initative (CanSat + new opportunities on BEXUS & LDC)
With Directorates (CESAR, Mission X, SPHERES, Volare)
Competitions
With Directorates (Explore the High Energy Universe)

18. ECSITE ’17: Is there anybody out there?
Classroom resources/activities
Secondary:
Get into space:
CanSat – new lessons and tutorials
Marblelous ellipses: understanding orbits
Explore Mars using robots:
NEW: LEGO EV3: mechanisms, electric engine, programming to move
Look for life on Mars:
NEW: LEGO EV3: Martian soil, Water on Mars, Looking for evidence of micro-organisms
Major points of progress in 2013
ESEROs in 4 new MS, bilateral discussions with some others
Big investment in defining overhaul of classroom resources – now moving into implementation phase
ESERO Network
Follow up of existing ESEROs activities
ITT and contract negotiation process for new ESEROs
Independent review of ESERO activities in order to identify strengths, gaps and potential for exchange of best practice
Classroom resources
Via ESEROs (Reis door de Ruimte translation)
Via partnerships (National Space Academy, Faulkes telescope)
With Directorates (esp. SRE, HSO)
Own initative (CanSat kit, Lego Education)
Teacher Training
Via ESEROs (accredited CPD and informal workshops)
With Directorates (Summer Workshop, GTTP)
Hands-on Projects
Own initative (CanSat + new opportunities on BEXUS & LDC)
With Directorates (CESAR, Mission X, SPHERES, Volare)
Competitions
With Directorates (Explore the High Energy Universe)

19. ECSITE '18 Climate change: monitoring atmosphere & oceans from space

20. Why Earth Observation for the classroom?
Earth Observation from space can improve the students’ understanding of planet Earth as a dynamic and delicate system (social and scientific education value)
Earth Observation can be linked to the school curriculum
It caters for interdisciplinarity and school-project work
The use of real science data (e.g satellite images) is fundamental to bridge the gap between science theory and practice  attract students to STEM studies and careers

21. Earth Observation in the classroom: the challenges
Difficult to find data, tools and information suitable for users with limited EO experience
Large variety of information, data types and tools, scattered on a variety of different websites, portals, apps…
Plenty of short-term projects instead of projects sustainable in the long term
Lack of truly curricular hands-on activities and education materials
Lack of expert knowledge in the teachers community

22. ECSITE ’18: Climate change: oceans & atmosphere
New pilot ESA Earth Detectives school challenge
An ESA/ESERO Working Group activity
Primary and secondary level
Progressive learning:
Achieving the curricular learning objectives that are related to Earth sciences by using the space perspective (changes of state, green-house effect, energy balance, the water cycle …)  through teacher training with ESEROs
Students to design and present a group project: identify a problem/environmental issue and propose a solution using the knowledge acquired and EO data
Major points of progress in 2013
ESEROs in 4 new MS, bilateral discussions with some others
Big investment in defining overhaul of classroom resources – now moving into implementation phase
ESERO Network
Follow up of existing ESEROs activities
ITT and contract negotiation process for new ESEROs
Independent review of ESERO activities in order to identify strengths, gaps and potential for exchange of best practice
Classroom resources
Via ESEROs (Reis door de Ruimte translation)
Via partnerships (National Space Academy, Faulkes telescope)
With Directorates (esp. SRE, HSO)
Own initative (CanSat kit, Lego Education)
Teacher Training
Via ESEROs (accredited CPD and informal workshops)
With Directorates (Summer Workshop, GTTP)
Hands-on Projects
Own initative (CanSat + new opportunities on BEXUS & LDC)
With Directorates (CESAR, Mission X, SPHERES, Volare)
Competitions
With Directorates (Explore the High Energy Universe)

23. Earth Detectives: yearly themes

24. Earth Detectives: development phases
To map, review and improve existing educational resources/projects and identify potential gaps for new development
To provide easy access to existing (and new) educational resources and complementary background information
To improve accessibility to EO archives, real-time data, software and analysis tools
To design a school challenge (project –like educational activity with curricular basis) that offers real practice of science and that is enriched with content and resources over the years
To create a continuous teacher training scheme for sustainability on the long term

25. Climate-related topics in the national primary school curriculum (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and UK)
Geography
Physical Geography
climate zones and one sub-topic with regional relevance
Human geography
types of settlement and land use: A first glimpse of the ways people live together and how they use the land.
distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water: I would focus on food and water here, I think these topics are adequate for primary levels.
Natural Sciences/Life Science
understanding that man, with his technical knowledge and ability, is embedded in the orderly structure of nature, is dependent on natural laws, and is responsible for the effects of his intervention in the environment.

26. Climate topics in the national secondary school curriculum (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and UK)
Geography
Physical Geography
Geological timescales;
(…) change in climate from the Ice Age to the present;
Human geography
Characterization of global climate change in its potential impact on life situations and the economy
Chemistry
Earth and atmospheric science
evidence for composition and evolution of the Earth’s atmosphere since its formation
evidence, and uncertainties in evidence, for additional anthropogenic causes of climate change
potential effects of, and mitigation of, increased levels of carbon dioxide and methane on the Earth’s climate
Primary Level

27. EO Data tools Climate from Space (ESA Climate Change Initiative)
an interactive App for Ipad and Android in order to access the processed data from ESA past missions.
The CCI team have analysed data from different ESA missions over 30 years. This data is displayed in different maps along with pictures, and the variables are explained in a very entertaining way via text or video. The interactive data viewer allows the public to compare different phenomena and how they change over time

28. EO Data tools Sentinel Playground
graphical interface for browsing, analysis and evaluation of a complete and daily updated Sentinel-2 archive. browse images from the entire earth's surface and make simple queries to restrict scenes to specific date ranges, location and cloud coverFull-resolution data are available within hours after acquisition.

29. EO Data tools EO browser
EO Browser combines a complete archive of Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, ESA’s archive of Landsat 5, 7 and 8, global coverage of Landsat 8, and Proba-V products. The visual comparison tool makes it possible to observe changes in the land from 1984 onward.

30. Thank you!