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How Do Prospective Primary Teachers Exploit Typical Astronomy Textbook Images?

2022
Previous work has shown that astronomy textbook images can be difficult for students to understand. The main reason for such difficulty lies in the fact the astronomical images are two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional phenomena. As such, some features of the phenomena may remain difficult for the students to understand.
Italo Testa, Silvia Galano, Marisa Michelini   +2 more
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The Solar System Traveler: A Model-Based Board Game to Advance Primary Student Interest, Knowledge and Learning in Astronomy

Research in Science Education
Ping-Han Cheng, Ting‐Kuang Yeh
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Research on Strategies of Virtual Reality Technology to Promote Astronomy Science Popularization Education in Primary Schools

Ziyi Chen, WenXi Wang, ZiYang Li, JinYi Zhao, Z. Chen   +4 more
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Using a Sociocultural Approach in Teaching Astronomy Concepts with Children of Primary School

2014
This chapter describes the use of a social collaborative learning approach to teach astronomical concepts. We used a repeated measure design to test the effectiveness of a teaching intervention aimed at improving basic concepts of Astronomy. Results show that children after the didactical experience were able to give a detailed explanation of the ...
SERVIDIO, Rocco Carmine, Lorenzi M. G, Francaviglia M.   +2 more
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Primary Mirror And Mount Technology For The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Telescope

SPIE Proceedings, 1988
Candidate technologies for a lightweight primary mirror for the SOFIA telescope are evaluated for both mirror blank fabrication and polishing. Two leading candidates for the type mirror blank are considered: the frit-bonded, structured form, and the thin meniscus form.
R K. Melugin, L S. Chang, J A. Mansfield, S. D. Howard   +3 more
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OBSERVING THE SKY: TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR THE ACTIVE LEARNING OF ASTRONOMY IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

INTED Proceedings, 2020
We present the design and implementation of a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) on astronomy in a fifth-grade classroom. The specific topics were the local horizon and the path of the Sun in the sky. A key element of the TLS was the direct contact with the sky, realized through repeated observations of the local horizon and of the position of the Sun ...
Carli, Marta, Stevanato, Eleonora, Pantano, Ornella   +2 more
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Primary and derived parameters of common relevance of Astronomy, Geodesy, and Geodynamics

Earth, Moon, and Planets, 1995
Problem of selecting primary parameters has been discussed. Primaries should be defined uniquely, as well as, physically. Since no unique definition for semimajor axis exists, it should be replaced by the geoidal geopotential valueW 0 or by the geopotential scale factorR 0 =GM/W 0, geocentric gravitational constantGM be also primary parameter.
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Design concepts for primary mirror structures of large optical telescopes for optical and submillimeter astronomy

SPIE Proceedings, 2008
Technologies of modern optical telescopes with large primary mirror are based on adaptive optics. These telescopes operate with many small mirror segments, so that all the segments work as a large piece of a reflective curved plate, i.e. a paraboloid.
Christian L. Stutzki, Hiroki Tamai, Thomas A. Sebring   +2 more
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Using Ancient Chinese and Greek Astronomical Data: A Training Sequence in Elementary Astronomy for Pre-Service Primary School Teachers

Science & Education, 2013
A great amount of research has been carried out worldwide to promote history of science as a powerful science teaching tool. Because the ways of choosing and using historical elements depend on teachers' or researchers' educational purpose, any attempt to support a single model-to-use seems difficult and probably irrelevant.
de Hosson, C., Décamp, Nicolas
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Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s

Nature Reviews Physics, 2021
Matthew Bailes, Beverly Berger, Marica Branchesi   +2 more
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