Harvard’s ThinkSpace brings hard science to Cambridge grade schools | Harvard Gazette

November 20, 2017

ThinkSpace Team in CPS Classroom — Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer | Putnam Avenue Upper School eighth-graders Liam Mahari (left) and Viviany Barbosa Brito work with project director Patricia Udomprasert during a hands-on lab with WWT.

Many people think seasons are caused by changing distance between the Earth and Sun, an idea that can be reinforced by misleading textbook diagrams. But that’s not the case.

To help set the record straight, CfA experts designed the ThinkSpace (Thinking Spatially about the Universe) program to address long-held misconceptions about the cycle of the seasons by focusing on spatial thinking. This fall, through a collaboration with Cambridge Public Schools (CPS), they’re letting local students in on the science.

Read More: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/11/harvards-thinkspace-brings-hard-science-to-cambridge-grade-schools/

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