Links

Space Station astronaut      Europe seen from Space

Links to educational websites

The SEOS Project
EARSeL's e-Learning tutorials on earth observation for use in high school, in the fields of physics, mathematics, geography, biology and engineering.

digital-earth.eu Project
The project, coordinated by the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, examines the use of geographic media in schools and teacher education.

ESA Education
The aim is to help young Europeans, aged from 6 to 28, to gain and maintain an interest in science and technology, with the long-term objectives of contributing towards the creation of a knowledge-based society and ensuring the existence of a qualified workforce for the Agency that will ensure Europe’s continued leadership in space activities.

ESA Eduspace
The Eduspace website aims to provide secondary school students and teachers with a learning and teaching tool. It is meant to be an entry point for space image data, and, in particular, to a widespread visibility of Earth observation applications for education and training.

ESA School Atlas
Geography from Space, the new ESA School Atlas takes the old subject matter and puts a new spin on it with real satellite imagery and geographical software.

FIS - Remote Sensing in Schools,
a project of the Institute of Geography, University of Bonn
Project outline in English and in German (6 MB pdf files)
Internet-based tutorials in English and in German

earthzine: fostering earth observation & global change
Global essay and blogging competition advert for college and university students "Making Citizen Observations a Global Vision".

Universität Hamburg: Zentrales eLearning-Büro (in German)
publishes the Hamburger eLearning Magazin on distant learning. Issue 5 includes an article on EARSeL's SEOS project.

Links to educational organisations

ESERA: European Science Education Research Association

IOSTE: International Organization for Science and Technology Education