Some phenomena, like sunrise or sunset, like the shade - and some experiences - as waiting for sunrise in the morning, or spending all night in the open air observating constellations - are big and perhaps new experiences, for young people 6 years old and also for their teachers. One of my aims is to propose a direct contact with the objects of nature, on the earth and in the sky, observed in their real time. Perhaps the direct observation can help to establish a link between "thinking like Coipernicus" and "seeing like Ptolomeus", tipical problem in teaching Astronomy
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After School Astronomy clubs are an important method of exposing students to astronomy at the critic...
Currently, the population shows a growing interest in astronomy-related content. The contact with in...
Learning science, especially learning astronomy subjects, is still very limited in activities carrie...
These daytime astronomy activities arose from research done in New Zealand by a group of teachers an...
This contribution deals with the author's decade of experience organising summer schools for Europea...
Research developed with 95 students of the 6th year of elementary education in a public school of Ub...
Providing meaningful telescope observing experiences for students who are deeply urban or distantly ...
We present the design and implementation of a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) on astronomy in a fif...
Children who visited Auckland Observatory and Stardome Planetarium in 1998 were surveyed on their id...
In this paper we present the Sky on Earth project funded in 2008 by the Italian Ministry of Instruct...
Since January 1998, a group of Texas 6–12th science and math teachers have met several times per yea...
The concepts of sky and visibility distance, as perceived by different learners, are investigated fo...
In a big town where the night sky is virtually invisible and if often only a virtual experience a t...
In astronomy it is important to promote observation and the quality of the sky is essential for a go...
The teaching and the popularization of Astronomy, nowadays, suffers from the absence of attractivene...
After School Astronomy clubs are an important method of exposing students to astronomy at the critic...
Currently, the population shows a growing interest in astronomy-related content. The contact with in...
Learning science, especially learning astronomy subjects, is still very limited in activities carrie...