Embodying Earth's Place in the Solar System

Autor/in	Plummer, Julia
Titel	Embodying Earth's Place in the Solar System
Quelle	In: Science and Children, 53 (2015) 4, S.52-61 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8148
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Science Instruction; Teaching Methods; Elementary School Students; Space Sciences; Motion; Observation; College Faculty; Scientific Research; Learning Strategies; Astronomy; Computer Software; Workshops; Summer Programs; Spatial Ability; Thinking Skills; Museums; Recreational Facilities; Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bewegungsablauf; Beobachtung; Fakultät; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Astronomie; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Sommerkurs; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Denkfähigkeit; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Freizeiteinrichtung; Wandel
Abstract	Elementary students find it difficult to connect the apparent motion of objects in the sky with how celestial objects actually move in the solar system. As a university astronomy education researcher, the author has been investigating methods to help children learn astronomy through workshops and summer camps at science museums and planetariums. In this article, she shares an investigation of the seasonal constellations that uses embodied learning strategies to help students with this complex spatial thinking. Students make observations of constellations using a computer program called "Stellarium," develop evidence-based claims that describe the pattern of change in the seasonal constellations, and make sense of their observations by modeling their own bodies as the Earth while it orbits the Sun. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01