The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts is offering online workshops for Arkansas educators on how to lead a safe and effective eclipse viewing session of the 2024 solar eclipse for their students.
Portions of Arkansas will be in the viewing path for the April 8, 2024, total eclipse. To help teachers prepare for the event, ASMSA physics and astronomy instructors will lead the workshop. Any public, private or charter school educator in Arkansas. Home school educators are also invited. All grade levels are welcome, and each workshop is limited to 20 educators. The sessions are not open to students.
Sessions are set for Dec. 2, 2023; Jan. 20, 2024, and March 9, 2024.
Topics include:
- When to schedule your viewing session;
- How to choose a viewing site;
- Constructing safe viewing devices for the partial phase of the eclipse;
- Sources for safe solar viewing glasses for the partial phase of the eclipse; and
- Citizen science projects your students can participate in during the eclipse.
Every educator who attends a session will be given access to training materials to use in their classes and will be mailed a starter pack of 20 eclipse glasses.
For more information or to register for a workshop, visit https://asmsa.me/eclipsepd.