The AFGU Toolkit

Each Astronomy from the Ground Up workshop participant will receive a free toolkit to help provide the primary content and delivery focus for post-workshop visitor engagements back at their institution. The toolkit contains a set of flexible activities and demonstrations to help participants engage their visitors in a variety of settings, including: nature hikes, family workshops, summer or overnight camps, museum exhibit areas, docent presentations, "star parties," community outreach events (such as fairs), and in classrooms.

The AFGU Toolkit is organized into three key themes which underpin our understanding of the cosmos:

• How Big, How Far: The Scale of the Universe (download sample activity)
• Light and Color: Breaking the Cosmic Code (download sample activity)
• Change in the Universe: The Predictable and the Unpredictable (download sample activity)

These themes will also be used to help shape the structure and content of the AFGU workshops.

When you participate in an AFGU workshop, whether onsite or online, you will receive a kit of most of the materials you will need for over a dozen hands-on astronomy activities. These materials are intended to get you started, and are for the most part easy to find and inexpensive should you need to replenish them in the future. You will also receive a Terrific Telescopes Kit from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, containing lenses, lasers, a UV light, and other durable materials for optics activities. Contact us at afgu {at} astrosociety.org for more details.

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