Exo4Edu
@exo4edu.bsky.social
https://exo4edu.eu/ Bringing exoplanets and the search for life in the Universe to schools.
🌍 From 6–11 July, 16 educators from Albania, France, Romania and Portugal gathered in Durrës for the Exo4Edu Summer School! 🇦🇱 They explored hands-on activities and co-created lesson plans to bring exoplanets into their classrooms 🚀🔭 @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social 🔗More info: exo4edu.eu/exo4edu-summ...
📜 #Exo4Edu #SummerSchool 2026: Day 5 After a session on astronomical heritage and exoplanet education, participants presented their learning scenarios. The school ended with the distribution of certificates and the group photo. 📸 These teachers are now ambassadors for #exoplaneteducation! 🪐
Day 4 of the #Exo4Edu #SummerSchool: ✅ The morning was reserved for presentations, in which the teachers shared the activities and resources they had been working on during the week. In the afternoon, the group had a cultural visit to Kruja and a social dinner to celebrate the week. 🇦🇱
Day 3 on the #Exo4Edu #SummerSchool was all about the search for life beyond Earth! 🪐 On the one hand, our teachers learned about #exobiology and what makes a planet habitable; on the other, they learned how to use the Exo4Edu educational tools (including the #Exo3D visualizer!) in the classroom.
Day 2 in the #Exo4Edu #SummerSchool was all about how we find exoplanets! 🎓 The day was centred around student-first teaching strategies, #exoplanet detection and hands-on workshops. And, in the evening, participants took part in a skygazing session! ☄️ Swipe to see some photos from yesterday! 📸
The #Exo4Edu Summer School 2026 is here! ☀️🌊 On Day 1, after welcoming our teachers, we kicked things off with an overview of the #SummerSchool programme and an ice-breaking activity to get to know each other and let go of some of the initial nerves. Follow along for daily updates! 📸
Would you like to bring #exoplanets to your classroom? 🪐 If yes, then join #Exo4Edu! We disseminate knowledge about exoplanets to secondary school teachers and students, while improving STEAM competencies. Make your classroom a gateway to distant worlds. 👉 Join us at exo4edu.eu/join-exo4edu/
Our summer school starts in less than a month, and all the partners are already preparing! 🥳 For a week in July, the coastal city of Durrës 🇦🇱 will be the meeting place for 16 educators who want to bring exoplanets to secondary school students. Who is excited for the #Exo4Edu Summer School? 🙋♀️
This week, we share a new #Exo4EduTeacher in action: At "Ymer Dishnica" High School, Teacher Donika Nakollfski presented Exo4Edu resources to students and teachers alike. 🪐 These were also shared with the professional Physics network, to be used with students throughout the region!
Another week, another #Exo4EduTeacher in action! ✨ Recently, teacher Asulla Jorgji took three 11th-grade classes at Kolegji Preka in Albania, on a journey into the world of exoplanets. 🪐 Students were asked "Do you believe there is life somewhere else out there?", and 90% answered YES! #Exo4Edu
👀 We know everyone likes to hang out in different corners of the internet, so here's where you can find us: ➡️ @exo4edu on Facebook and Instagram ➡️ @exo4edu.bsky.social on Bluesky ➡️ or on the website exo4edu.eu Follow us on your favourite platform and don’t miss any project updates! 🔔 #Exo4Edu
🌟 #Exo4EduTeacher Anerta Çapuni at Ernest Koliqi International School used AR visualizations & Mentimeter quizzes to teach exoplanets to A-Level Physics students. A fantastic example of how technology can bring exoplanet science to life in the classroom! #Exo4Edu #Albania #Exoplanets #AR #STEM
#Exo4EduTeachersInAction! 🌟 Just days after completing #Exo4Edu training, Romanian teacher Adrian Temelescu led his 5th-grade class through "Detectives of Distant Worlds" – a hands-on exoplanet activity! #TeachersInAction #Romania #Exoplanets #STEM
📢 #Exo4Edu Romania completes its first national teacher training! 21 educators gained hands-on skills to bring exoplanet science into their classrooms. 🔔 Stay tuned, as we will be sharing some of these activities in our series "Exo4Edu Teachers in Action"! 🌟
Our #Exo4EduTeachers continue to share the project and its resources everywhere they go! 🪐🪐 Recently, teacher Lindita Lohja from Albania led a training session on the Exo4Edu platform at the Physics Network meeting for lower secondary education at the “Edith Durham” School, in Shkodra.
Two teachers from the first Albanian training course carried out their own #Exo4Edu activities! 🪐 This week, we showcase the activity by teacher Ornela Kurti, where the 10th grade students presented planetary systems before a jury and created their own 3D-based video explaining planetary motion. 🎓
After the first Albanian #Exo4Edu training course, 2 teachers carried out educational activities about the project! 🪐 Today, we share one of them: During Mathematics–Physics professional network, Aida Dedja (from Elbasan) presented the Exo4Edu platform and how it can be used as a learning resource.
🎓 The Exo4Edu Summer School 2026 is coming! 🗓️ 6-11 July | 🇦🇱 Durrës, Albania A 5-day immersive training for secondary STEM teachers to bring exoplanet science into the classroom. 26 hours of hands-on workshops, lectures, and collaboration with international peers.
#TBT with #Exo4Edu 🌠 Remember HD 143811 b? This unique circumbinary planet was discovered by a team including scientists from @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social! 👉 Dive deeper into this remarkable planet and its discovery here: lira.obspm.fr/First-image-... #Exoplanets #Astronomynews
📡 #EXOPLANETS 101 with #Exo4Edu 🪐 In 1999, astronomers from the San Francisco State University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered the first known multi-planet system around a Sun-like star. 🌟 The star Upsilon Andromedae was found to host not one, but multiple planets!
#Exoplanet news: @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social & CNRS just published a study modelling atmospheric dynamics and cloud formation on brown dwarfs. Since brown dwarfs are perfect analogues for directly imaged exoplanets, the model can be a new tool for interpreting giant exoplanet observations. 🔍
📡 EXOPLANETS 101 with #Exo4Edu 🪐 What makes a planet “just right”? It might be in the habitable zone: the area around a star where temperatures could allow liquid water on a planet’s surface. It’s a key idea in the search for life beyond Earth! 🔭 @observatoiredeparis.psl.eu.web.brid.gy
Exciting news in the #Exoplanet world! 🪐 Using mid-infrared spectroscopy with the #JWST, a team of researchers discovered a long-lived circumplanetary disk around the young, accreting exoplanet, Delorme 1AB b. This is one of the first JWST detections of a circumplanetary disk! 🔍 #Exo4Edu
📢 Calling all Portuguese teachers: new teacher training opportunity featuring Exo4Edu! 🇵🇹 🔎 This 50-hour, b-learning course, invites educators to explore resources and platforms that make it possible to bring real scientific data into the classroom. 🎟️ Free registration Save your spot today! 💫
New exoplanet orbiting a double star system discovered: HD 143811 b! 👉 Read the full article on @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social to learn more: observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/first-image-... #Exo4Edu #ErasmusPlus #Exoplanets #Astronomy #SpaceScience #HD143811 #Exoplanetnews
🚀✨ New book alert! "Les astronomes à la recherche de la vie extraterrestre" by Quentin Král (@obs-paris-psl.bsky.social) deep dives into the current state of research on life in the Universe, exploring exoplanets, missions like the James Webb Space, and major breakthroughs in the field.🌍🪐 #Exo4Edu
📡 #EXOPLANETS101 with #Exo4Edu! 🪐 🗺️ In May 2007, David Charbonneau and Heather Knutson created the first map of an exoplanet! Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, they mapped the surface of HD 189733 b, a hot Jupiter located 64 light-years away. 🔗 Source: NASA @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social
