"Voyager": An Educational Card Game

Autor/in	Smith, David Ryan
Titel	"Voyager": An Educational Card Game
Quelle	In: Physics Education, 38 (2003) 1, S.47-51 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-9120
DOI	10.1088/0031-9120/38/1/308
Schlagwörter	Astronomy; Science Instruction; Teaching Methods; Satellites (Aerospace); Physical Sciences; Numeracy; Educational Games; Scientific Concepts; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Astronomie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Satellit; Natural sciences; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaft; Rechenkompetenz; Educational game; Lernspiel; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	"Voyager" is an educational card game involving scientific satellites, developed for use in schools with children aged 9 to 13 years. The idea of the game is to improve pupils' knowledge about the large number of scientific satellites there are in space in a fun way, while also practising numeracy skills. Several copies of the game were produced using funding obtained from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) as a Public Understanding of Science (PUS) award. These initial "trial" versions of the game were taken to three different schools where feedback obtained from both pupils and staff was used to produce a final copy of the game that can be distributed to other schools along with a set of companion notes to form the basis of a science lesson. This article reports the findings of the school trials and indicates possible future developments of other scientific card games that could be beneficial to the classroom. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10