Telescope Building
Teachers and students participating in the Scopes for Schools program build telescopes that serve as the centerpieces for inquiry-based, hands-on activities. The telescopes become the property of the school, allowing students to use them on an ongoing, long-term basis for self-directed exploration of the heavens, for organized extracurricular activities, and for outreach to the community.
Here are some pictures of Scopes for Schools participants building telescopes and participating in other Scopes for Schools activities:
Students in a Scopes
for Schools workshop exploring how telescopes work with manipulatives.
Students constructing
telescope housing.
Students in Scopes
for Schools group activity to study solar rotation.
Examples of 6-inch
telescopes built by Scopes for Schools participants.