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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Astronomy Education"”.
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Promoting mental model-building in astronomy education
The difficulties in learning and teaching astronomy, including the use of models, have been well documented. Models, when used by teachers, are usually utilised in a transmissive way to impart content to pupils. The process of constructing mental models, an essential aspect of the development of …
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Introducing Astronomy Into High School Physics Curriculum Through The Use Of The University Of North Dakota Observatory
<p>Astronomy education is currently lacking in the secondary level classroom. Many programs have been created to remedy this, including research opportunities for students and training workshops for educators. These reach only a small fraction of the population however, while remaining students …
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Discipline-Based Planetary Education Research and Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Mars
… tours which were developed and tested for astronomy education. Results from the tests indicated that there were statistically significant learning gains (p-value < 0.05) after students interacted with the tours compared to those who did not. The development of the tours inspired a …
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Characterizing the digital planetarium as a teaching and learning space
… to its analog roots among instructional media in astronomy education. I characterized the use of the digital planetarium as a teaching and learning space by following two lines of inquiry: a) how students engage with a digital planetarium and b) what shapes the teaching and learning space in the …
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Probing student engagement with size and distance in introductory astronomy
Astronomy Education Research has shown that students have many challenges when it comes to understanding key concepts in Astronomy. Amongst these is a poor understanding of astronomical scales. Recently for example, both sizes and distances have been shown to present similar difficulties to …
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Interstellar Gas Clouds and Gen. Ed. Astronomy Students: Who Are They? How Do They Behave?
The first chapter begins with the observations of 1,882 sources from the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) at 1.1 mm in HCO⁺ J = 3 − 2 and N₂H⁺ J = 3 − 2. We determine kinematic distances for 529 sources and derive the size, mass, and average density for this subset of clumps. The median size of …