EU-UNAWE has an exciting new resource coming soon called Astronomers vs. Kids. It will be a series of short educational videos for children. The first episode was filmed last Wednesday (19 December) with Professor Brian Schmidt, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics, and a group young students from the American School of the Hague (the Netherlands).
The series will introduce children about the exciting research taking place in astronomy from real astronomers working at the forefront of the subject. The video was recording at the Lorentz Centre and Mathematics Library of the Faculty of Sciences of Leiden University.
Each episode will be 10-15 minutes long, with an astronomer explaining their cutting-edge research to a group of primary school children for the first five minutes. This will be followed by a question and answer session during which the kids will really get to test the astronomers' knowledge, before they tell us in their own words what they learned.
In the début episode Schmidt will treat the children to a lesson about his discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe, answering the key questions: “Does the Universe expand?”; “Is the expansion accelerating?” and “How do you measure distances?”
You can watch the first episode in early 2013 and learn all about the accelerating cosmos from people that really know what they're talking about! The series will be available on the EU-UNAWE website and other networks — watch this space!
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