MOMSTER: teaching modules on meteors and radio astronomy for secondary schools
Description
This set of French-language teaching modules was developed within the framework of the MOMSTER project, an educational initiative on meteor science and radio astronomy. The materials are intended for secondary school students and cover topics such as meteor showers, data visualisation, radio observations and signal interpretation.
Each module is aligned with official curriculum objectives for physics, geography, mathematics, and STEAM, and includes both theoretical background and practical activities. Students work with real data from the BRAMS radio meteor network and explore concepts such as underdense/overdense meteors, infographic design, and signal analysis using tools like Excel. The materials are designed for flexible use in the classroom and complement public engagement and citizen science initiatives such as BRAMS and Radio Meteor Zoo.
The materials are described and analysed in a scholarly article currently under review (Calders et al., 2025, Astronomy Education Journal), which documents their design, implementation and relevance for integrating research-based citizen science into secondary education.
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Tags
- secondary-education
- radio-astronomy
- citizen-science
- meteors
- stem-education