Schools : Missed the Total Solar Eclipse ? Here's came the sun ! Resources

 

Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project

via Forbes

Every total solar eclipse is astonishing ! This Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse was visible from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. 

For many, preparing for this event brought memories of the magnificent total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017.

The looming eclipse on April 8, 2024, allowed tens of millions of Americans, Canadians and Mexicans the opportunity to see the moon completely block the sun and reveal our star's eerie atmosphere.

A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, casting a shadow that blocks out the light from the sun. The sun appeared to vanish behind the moon for minutes at a time as the eclipse traveled along its "path of totality," starting on Mexico's Pacific coast and moving northeast through more than a dozen states, from Texas to Maine, and into eastern Canada. 

credit: The Canadian Press/ Dave Chidley

More than 31 million people live along the path of totality, and many more flew or drove to witness the April 8 spectacle in person.

After the April 8 total solar eclipse, the next total solar eclipse that will be visible from the contiguous United States will be on Aug. 23, 2044.

Before that, there will be an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024, according to NASA. It will be visible in parts of South America, with some parts only able to experience a partial eclipse. A partial eclipse will also be visible in parts of Antarctica, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and North America.

On Aug. 12, 2026, there will be a total solar eclipse visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia and a small area of Portugal, according to NASA.

 

A partial eclipse will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Google Doodle Solar Eclipse 2024

https://doodles.google/doodle/

• Google Doodle:

"The Moon is having its day in the Sun — happy solar eclipse 2024!"

The 8 April 2024, the Moon crossed between the Sun and the Earth, effectively blocking the Sun’s light. In the path of totality, the sky was darken and the air was cool, and the Sun’s glowing corona (it’s rarely seen outermost part) became visible for up to four and a half minutes! 

People in North America (Mexico, the United States, and Canada) got to witness this special and rare event! A partial eclipse or total eclipse if they were in the path of totality. 

Did you saw the #GoogleDoodle? Don't be like the E and slept on this rare celestial event.

credit: Getty Images

via Forbes

• Eye Safety:

No matter where you were, if you planned to look at or even toward the sun, I hope you protected your eyes. 

According to experts, only those in the path of totality were safe to look at the eclipse without protection, and only during totality.

The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun was through special-purpose solar filters, such as eclipse glasses (example shown down) or hand-held solar viewers. 

Solar views and solar eclipse glasses

credit: National Park Service

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/

• Resources 4 all : 

To learn all about the 2024 Total Eclipse 2024 visit the website NASA Total Eclipse April, 2024 if you couldn't follow NASA’s live, streaming video of the event. 

The Eclipse is over but you can still watch NASA broadcast of the total solar eclipse as it moved across North America on April 8, 2024, traveling through Mexico, across the United States from Texas to Maine, and out across Canada’s Atlantic coast.

• Useful links:

NASA

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/

Missed the 2024 total solar eclipse? Watch video of moments from the event here

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/watch-total-solar-eclipse-2024/

Why NASA Will Send Hundreds Of Balloons Into The Total Solar Eclipse

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/04/04/why-nasa-will-send-balloons-80000-feet-into-the-moons-shadow-during-the-eclipse/

How Americans in the solar eclipse's path of totality plan to celebrate the celestial event on April 8, 2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/total-solar-eclipse-celebrations-april-8/

Monday's total solar eclipse from space

https://earthsky.org/earth/mondays-total-solar-eclipse-from-space/

• Videos:

Total Solar Eclipse

credit: News18

Education:

Well! You have some special digital resources to enjoy and learning about Total Solar Eclipse. 

Students and teachers have heres some resources to teach and learn about Total Solar Eclipse 2024.

• Activities:

Teachers can prepare a great science lesson, for sure!

• Don't forget to get your students involved in some research from themselves.

• The case of balloons project by NASA is very interesting. Let your students be curious about this balloons project sent by NASA. Why and for what.

• Invite students to watch the video above about a team of a half dozen students in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences UAlbany selected to launch weather balloons as part of a nationwide project, co-sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation, to collect and analyze data around the Oct. 14, 2023 annular solar eclipse and the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse.

Hoping you will enjoy if you were not on the path of th eclipse.

G-Souto

15.04.2024
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Schools ! Children's Book Day ! Cross the Seas on the Wings of Imagination !

 

ICBD Children's Book Day poster 2024

https://www.ibby.org/

Organized by IBBY (The International Board on Book for Young People), different National sponsors are chosen each year to represent Children’s Book Day internationally.

International Children’s Books Day is always held on or around 2nd April. This was the birthday of the famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote some of the best-known children’s stories, including ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. 

IBBY Japan is the 2024 International Children’s Book Day official sponsor, under the motto :

 "Cross the Seas on the Wings of Imagination".

IBBY Japan is the sponsor for International Children's Book Day 2024. The Japanese author of the message is Eiko Kadono and Nani Furiya is the illustrator of the poster.

Eiko Kadono, a prominent Japanese author and winner of the 2018 HC Andersen Award for writing, has composed a letter to the children of the world. Nana Furiya, an international-minded Japanese artist living in Slovakia, created a poster. 

"Cross the Seas on the Wings of Imagination" flyer theme 2024

https://www.ibby.org/awards-activities/

Imagination is the key word for ICBD 2024. JBBY believes that "fostering imagination will lead to mutual understanding and a spirit of tolerance". 

• ICBD message 2024 (English translation)

Stories travel, riding on wings,
Longing to hear the joyful beat of your heart.

I’m a traveling story. I fly anywhere.

On wings of wind, or wings of waves, or sometimes on tiny wings of sand. Of course, I also ride the wings of migratory birds. And even those of jet planes.

I sit beside you. Opening the pages, I tell you a story, the one you want to hear.

Would you like a strange and wondrous story?

Or how about a sad one, a scary one, or a funny one?

If you don’t feel like listening right now, that’s fine too. But I know someday you will. When you do, just call out, “Traveling story, come. Sit beside me!”

And I’ll fly right there.

 

I have so many stories to share.

How about a story of a little island tired of being alone who learned to swim and set off to find a friend?

Or the tale of a mysterious night when two moons appeared.

Or the one about Santa Claus getting lost.

 

Oh, I can hear your heart. It’s beating faster.

Flitter-flutter, thumpity-thump, pitter-patter, bumpety-bump.

The traveling story has jumped inside and set your heart racing.

You’ll become one yourself next, spreading your wings to fly.

And so, another traveling story is born.

Eiko Kadono. Japanase author

Languages:

Japanese (original language), French, German, Spanish, Greek and Chinese.

Eiko Kadono

https://www.ibby.org/

• Author 

Born in Tokyo in 1935, Eiko Kadono lost her mother when she was five. Before long the Pacific War started, so she had to be evacuated to the northern side of Japan at 10 years old. The experience of war as a child is at the root of Kadono's deep commitment to peace and happiness. (...)

Kiki's Delivery Service books serie

Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers

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Her first book was published in 1970, since then she published about 250 books, and these were translated into 10 languages. The children's novel Majo no takkyūbin or Kiki's Delivery Service (English version) about a young witch-in-training, which inspired one of Miyazaki Hayao’s beloved anime films. 

"to start reading a book is like opening a door to a different world. It doesn't close at the end of the story, another door is always waiting there to be opened. People will start to look at the world in a different way after reading a story, and it's the beginning in a sense. And I think that is the true pleasure of reading."

Eiko Kadono

• Illustrator:

Nani Furiya  was born in Tokyo, Japan. She is illustrator and author of more than seventy picture books for children. After illustrating "Mekkira Mokkira Dondon", a popular children's picture book written by Setsuko Hasegawa and first published by Fukuinkan in 1985.(...)

She creates picture books where she is also the author of the text.

Nana has won the Golden Pen at the International Illustration Biennial of Belgrade in 1999 and was selected for the 2021 White Ravens.

Mekkira Mokkira Dondon

Setsuko Hasegawa

illustrator Nani Furiya

https://www.amazon.com/

Education:

• Reading:

As educators, we have an ubiquitous responsibility to encourage the love of reading in our students by exploring this wonderful and magical resource in our in-person lessons.

Of course, today is the fay of reading by pleasure! Let your students read what they like the most. 

There are two reasons:

• One is benefiting those readers in your classroom that wish to read from you and need to let them be free. 

• Secondly, it is so you can reap the exponential rewards their choices offers. 

However taking part in International Children’s Book Day is synonymous of the benefits of reading as a whole. Here some of them:

• Brain exercise - reading engages and exercises the brain, helping it to better make neural connections.

• Vocabulary improvement - the amount of terminology that a child uses and possesses can increase with regular reading.

• Empathy and imagination - reading opens children up to new horizons, helping them think outside the box and engage with the outside world in ways they had not done previously.

• Morale improvement - it should not be forgotten that reading is fun! Taking part in it will boost a child’s morale and uplift their mood.

• Animation:

I wrote about Eiko Kadono and her beloved books serie Kiki's Delivery Service which inspired one of Miyazaki Hayao’s beloved animated films. 

Kiki’s Delivery Service, basis of the animated film by Studio Ghibli in 1989. Kiki's Delivery Service is an animated movie directed by the world acclaimed animator, Hayao Miyazaki. The story is based on Eiko Kadono's novel of the same title.

In her many marvelous and funny picture books, or her great series of novels about the little witch Kiki or her novel set during World War II about a brave girl who must walk through a terrifying tunnel of trees to get to school.

Kiki's Delivered Service
Hayao Miyazaki, 1989

https://www.imdb.com/

"The beauty of Kiki lies on its high degree of realism, with its peaceful coexistence with the fantasy elements. Actually, the only fantasy element in the movie is Kiki's flying magic. All the other things, the sceneries, the people, and the struggle of growth itself, are truthful presentations of the real life. The characters are three-dimensional and fully-developed"

Kiki's Delivered Service
Eiko Kadona, 1985

https://www.amazon.com/

• Invite students to read the book before displaying the animated film in the classroom.  

• Ask them about their preferences: reading or watch the animation. Both are valid but they will have perhaps more pleasure to read the book, imagining all aboutthe little girl and all her adventures? 

"To start reading a book is like opening a door to a different world. It doesn't close at the end of the story, another door is always waiting there to be opened."

Eiko Kadono

There you are! Reading is opening a door to a new world and another door to imagination. 

G-Souto

02.04.2024

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Let's talk about World Theatre Day ! Art is Peace ! Resources & Activities

 

World Theatre Day

https://www.world-theatre-day.org/

Since its inception on 27 March 1962, World Theatre Day has stood as the flagship event of ITI, uniting theatre enthusiasts worldwide in celebration of the intrinsic value of the theatrical art. 

World Theatre Day 2024

https://www.world-theatre-day.org/

The International Theatre Institute (ITI) is delighted to announce the World Theatre Day 2024 Celebration, set to take place from 27 to 29 March 2024 in Langfang, China. 

The goals of World Theatre Day are:

• To promote theatre in all its forms across the world.


• To make people aware of the value of theatre in all its forms.


• To enable theatre communities to promote their work on a broad scale so that governments and opinion leaders are aware of the value and importance of dance in all its forms and support it.

• To enjoy theatre in all its forms for its own sake.


• To share the joy for theatre with others.

Jon Fosse

credit: Eirik Hagesaeter/Agence France-Presse / Getty Images

One of the most important of these is the circulation of the World Theatre Day is International Message through which at the invitation of ITI, a figure of world stature shares "his or her reflections on the theme of Theatre and a Culture of Peace". 

The first World Theatre Day International Message was written by Jean Cocteau (France) in 1962. 

This year, ITI is privileged to have Jon Fosse, the Norwegian playwright and novelist, and last year´s Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, crafting the Message for World Theatre Day 2024.

Jon Fosse 

Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

https://www.world-theatre-day.org/

Jon Fosse is a renowned Norwegian writer born in 1959. He is known for his extensive body of work, which includes plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children's books, and translations. Fosse's writing style is characterized by minimalism and emotional depth, making him one of the most performed playwrights in the world. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unsayable. 

via Artlyst.com

• Message:

Art Is Peace 

Every person is unique and yet also like every other person. Our visible, external appearance is different from everyone else’s, of course, that is all well and good, but there is also something inside each and every one of us which belongs to that person alone—which is that person alone. We might call this their spirit, or their soul. Or else we can decide not to label it at all in words, just leave it alone. 

(...)

Art, good art, manages in its wonderful way to combine the utterly unique with the universal. It lets us understand what is different—what is foreign, you might say—as being universal. By doing so, art breaks through the boundaries between languages, geographical regions, countries. It brings together not just everyone’s individual qualities but also, in another sense, the individual characteristics of every group of people, for example of every nation. 

(...)

I have been speaking here about art in general, not about theater or playwriting in particular, but that is because, as I’ve said, all good art, deep down, revolves around the same thing: 

War and art are opposites, just as war and peace are opposites—it’s as simple as that. Art is peace.

Jon Fosse, Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

translator Damion Searls

Education:

Of course you can invite your younger students to read a children's book  Kant by Jon Fosse.

" is an eight year old boy who is fascinated by outer space. He wonders if there is an edge to it, if it ends somewhere, and if it does – what lies beyond? Kristoffer is trying to read Donald Duck in bed at night, but he is much more concerned with the fundamental questions about space and world. In the room adjacent to Kristoffer, with the door slightly open, his father is reading Kant. (...) 

Download product sheet (PDF)

Kant

Jon Fosse, 1990

https://winjeagency.com/

There is a French piece,  une pièce de théàtre, d'après ce livre, dont le titre Kant/ Au bord di sommeil, à partir de 8 ans par la compagnie belge INTI Théâtre dont vous pouvez vous inspirer.

For older students may be invited to play a little peace studied into the curricula, a writer from their country or some other from a foreign country which was study.

Of course there are interesting little plays that are include into the curriculum. 

Teachers must help them to choose which one students want to play - students love to plays - and help them to prepare some initial activities, always thinking in the level they are teaching and age.

To do it better, go to the theater with your students! Best lesson you can share with your students about playing.

If you are teaching at a Vocational school of Theatre, of course you will do a lot and have special activities to celebrate the day.

Level: All levels

Curriculum: Cross-curricular Languages, Literature, Arts 

Of course you must adapt the plays and activities to the age and level you are teaching.

The most important ! Go tor the theatre!

G-Souto

27.03.2024

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