The document outlines plans for the EUNAWE Germany project, which aims to promote social and cultural integration among disadvantaged children through astronomy education. It discusses two main groups the project targets: children with immigrant backgrounds and those from unemployed families. It then describes previous and planned activities, including educational materials, teacher trainings, and working with parents. The project managers are introduced and an implementation plan is presented according to the EUNAWE framework's tasks over an 18-month period.

1. EUNAWE Germany
Dr. Cecilia Scorza , Natalie Fischer, Haus der Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Andreas Quirrenbach, Heidelberg University

2. 1. Main goal: EUNAWE Germany as a motor of cultural and social
integration in German industrial cities
Disadvantaged children in Germany
Group 1: children with immigrant background
• feeling like a foreigner their whole lifes
• emotionally closed,
-unable to learn the german language
-“bad“ at school
-end up in the so-called „special schools“
Group 2: children of unemployed people
• They receive a very modest economical support from the goverment
• Some parents are alcoholized, watch TV the whole day,
their daily diet is VERY bad
• Lack of perspectives

3. 2. Previous and current activities & experience since 2002
Heidelberg Observatory, University of Heidelberg
Prof. Andreas Quirrenbach

4. 3. Expertice and skills that will be brought into the project
(E)UNAWE Educational materials
Throughout playful activities
Learning by doing / listening stories
Learning to share
Learning to change perspectives
Cognitive aspects
Observational skills
Spatial orientation
Recognize & classify objects
Prof. Sabina Pauen
Developmental psychology
Psychology Institute
Heidelberg University
Identification figures MP9 EVALUATION!!

5. Intensive work with the
„multi-cultural Moon“
China Kenya Kongo „universal“

6. Handbook with many activities
The moon

7. Expertice: UNAWE Project in Ludwigshafen
with support of the BASF and the University of Heidelberg
•790 pre-scholar teachers
•27 teacher trainings
in 3 years
•500 Euros / Kindergarten
Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen
Heidelberg Heidelberg
Natalie Fischer
Cecilia Scorza

8. A multi-task project… 80-90 % children
with immigrant
background!!
UNAWE
Training
on astronomy
Implementation
UNAWE
Training on
Integration of the Mathematics
parents & Natural
Sciences,
Language

9. Teacher training at the Heidelberg Observatory
Constraints:
Face-to-face programme (no computers, no internet facilities!)
Teacher training: 2 days, 1 night, 1 supervision day
Programm of the training
Categorization of objects, scales, beauty of objects
Introduction to the UNAWE idea (cultural and social aspects)
Modul 1: The Moon-Sun-Earth as a system (Earth awareness, Earth-citizen-awareness)
Modul 2: The Earth in the Solar System
Modul 3: The world of the constellations  Myths and stories
Modul 4: Our place in the Milky Way and the families of galaxies
Observations (of the Moon, Sun, planets, constellations)

10. A lot of fears…

11. Self creativity in the implementation

12. “The World meets at the Kindergarten”

13. Intercultural or “interplanetary“ education
with „Godo“ (our „E.T“)
Godo comes „from abroad“ (exoplanet)
He needs help, doesn´t speak
a our language
We can learn a lot from him…
and he from us…
Six months later…Alina came also
„from abroad“ (Croatia)..

14. Work with the parents
Parents with immigrant background: collect myths and stories around
the sky

15. Success thanks to the pre-scholar teachers!
Expert group (consultants),hotline, tips
• 790 pre-escolar teachers working actively for UNAWE
• Impact even after three years
• Per year 9.800 children ages 3-6
• In three years  30.000 children

16. Together with the parents..

17. 4. National project managers: Status of recruitment
5.1 A new home for EUNAWE at the House of Astronomy (Sept. 2011)
EUNAWE endorsement of the German Astronomical Society (AG)
EUNAWE
room & office

18. 4. National project managers: Status of recruitment
Natalie Fischer, Cecilia Scorza
Physicist and educator Astronomer and educator
Anita Bucur,
developmental
psychologist
One special contribution to the EUNAWE project:
Evaluation instrument (WP9) for EUNAWE
The great challange: to evaluate a programme that not only estimulates the
scientific mind but also has very strong social and (multi)cultural components

19. EUNAWE national committee

20. 5. Implementation plan according to the EUNAWE tasks WP7
Tasks WP7 & WP9 6-18 months 18-30 months
1.7.2011 – 1.07.2012 1.07.2012 – 01.07.2013
Select suitable resources
Translate resources
Design new resources
Distribution of materials
Standard modules
Online publications
Evaluation instruments WP9
Teacher trainings
1x 2-day national level
3x 1-day regional level
Children

21. Another milestone: Implementation plan on national scale (2012)
National programm:
„The house of the
young researcher“
Berlin
Heidelberg

22. Thank you!