{"id":391792,"date":"2017-03-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=b06ae233921fa3e7ec466a2a61d2338a"},"modified":"2017-03-30T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:00:00","slug":"discovering-new-variable-stars-at-key-stage-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=391792","title":{"rendered":"Discovering new variable stars at Key Stage 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details of the London pilot of the \u2018Discovery Project\u2019 are presented, where university-based<br \/>\nastronomers were given the chance to pass on some real and applied knowledge of astronomy to a group<br \/>\nof selected secondary school pupils. It was aimed at students in Key Stage 3 of their education,<br \/>\nallowing them to be involved in real astronomical research at an early stage of their education, the<br \/>\nchance to become the official discoverer of a new variable star, and to be listed in the<br \/>\nInternational Variable Star Index database (The International Variable Star Index, Version 1.1,<br \/>\nAmerican Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), 2016, http:\/\/aavso.org\/vsx<br \/>\n[http:\/\/aavso.org\/vsx] ), all while learning and practising research-level skills. Future plans are<br \/>\ndiscussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of the London pilot of the \u2018Discovery Project\u2019 are presented, where university-based<br \/>\nastronomers were given the chance to pass on some real and applied knowledge of astronomy to a group<br \/>\nof selected secondary school pupils. It was aimed at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}