Different Strategies of Active Learning in Introductory Astronomy Course

Abstract- Introductory Astronomy course for undergraduate physics education students is usually lack of hands-on activities in the teaching process. In this paper, we discuss different strategies to get more interaction between the students and teacher. The active learning strategies were the review assignment, group presentation, battle game, and moon observation. The final project was writing popular articles about astronomy topics because the students should be ready to become science communicators as a part of physics teacher's duties. The technology role became important to share ideas, assignments and browsing the materials for the articles. The students gave positive responses in the motivation and understanding of particular topics. However, we will discuss some factors that have to be considered as potential problems to deliver active learning. Index Terms- active learning, hands-on activities, project base