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This community-based website is where all of us as Astronomy from the Ground Up participants can connect and strengthen our astronomy skills. Astronomy from the Ground Up provides informal science educators at nature centers, science centers, and natural history museums with new ways to communicate the excitement of modern astronomy.

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  • Featured Activity - Constellation Detectives


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    Constellations come alive with stories, but can you find

    the stars that make them up? It's not always a simple

    connect the dots game.

    Use this activity to help your visitors build their skills!

  • Educator of the Month - Melody "Meg" Gower


    Meg Gower of Chelsea, MI, is the new AFGU Educator of the Month. Her efforts in facilitating astronomy programming in many facets of her community -- including her super successful Science Cafes -- are motivational.

    Along with participating in AFGU's Winter 2008 Online
    Workshop, GLOBE at Night 2008 & 2011, Starting a Science Cafe,
    Telling Science Like a Story, Meg has now completed the Interpreting Our Magnetic Sun Workshop.

    Click here to learn about the many ways that Meg brings her astronomical messages to the citizens and visitors of the Great Lakes State.

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Astronomy from the Ground Up is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no. ESI-0451933. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.