Astronomy in Culture - Section A
Lifelong Learning | FULL (Membership Required)
Let’s explore how a variety of cultures have viewed the cosmos over the ages. How did they think the Earth, sun, moon, and stars came to be? What patterns among the stars were important to them and why? We will explore parallels among the stories mankind has told around the world.
Participants must be comfortable being in a slightly confined and dark space for approximately 30 minutes. The area will be lit when entering.
There are two sections of this course to choose from and those of you who have previously registered for this course will have to wait until January 26 to register.
Susan Button
Susan Button was an outreach portable planetarium educator for 16 years and before that a classroom teacher for 11 years. She served on the Executive Council of the International Planetarium Society (IPS) as President Elect, President (2005-2008) and then as Past President (2009-2010). She has served as chair for the IPS Portable Planetarium Committee from 1988 to the present.
As a consultant, through her business, “Quarks to Clusters,” she has provided teacher training and assistance to educators involved in lesson and curriculum development in 14 countries around the world since 1990. As associate editor for the “Planetarian”, the IPS quarterly journal, she has written a column for mobile and small planetarium directors since 1990. She also wrote and published, with help from colleagues in the field, two handbooks for the IPS: they were titled "IPS Portable Planetarium Handbook” in the English language and "Tips for Portable and Small Planetarium Users” in Spanish.