Science outreachScience outreach, also called education and public outreach (EPO or E/PO) or simply public outreach, is an umbrella term for a variety of activities by research institutes, universities, and institutions such as science museums, aimed at promoting public awareness (and understanding) of science and making informal contributions to science education. While there have always been individual scientists interested in educating the public, science outreach has recently become more organized.
IMAXthumb|Une salle IMAX. droite|sans_cadre IMAX est un format de pellicule créé par l'IMAX Corporation, au Canada, qui a la capacité d'exposer des images d'une plus grande taille et d'une meilleure que les pellicules conventionnelles. Un écran standard IMAX mesure de long et de haut, le plus grand se trouvant à Sydney avec 35,73 sur (chantier en cours avec réouverture fin 2021). En 2008, IMAX était le système le plus large utilisé pour la projection de films.
Science educationScience education is the teaching and learning of science to school children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science education includes work in science content, science process (the scientific method), some social science, and some teaching pedagogy. The standards for science education provide expectations for the development of understanding for students through the entire course of their K-12 education and beyond. The traditional subjects included in the standards are physical, life, earth, space, and human sciences.
Public awareness of sciencePublic awareness of science (PAwS) is everything relating to the awareness, attitudes, behaviors, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organization. This concept is also known as public understanding of science (PUS), or more recently, public engagement with science and technology (PEST). It is a comparatively new approach to the task of exploring the multitude of relations and linkages science, technology, and innovation have among the general public.
Planétariumalt=Planétarium près de Dunkerque, France|vignette|341x341px|Palais de l'Univers et des Sciences à Cappelle la Grande Le terme planétarium désigne le dôme présentant une reproduction du ciel avec ses constellations et ses étoiles et, par métonymie, le projecteur spécifique permettant de simuler le ciel sur un écran hémisphérique, de même que la salle où fonctionne ce projecteur, ou encore la structure organisée tout autour.
