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Saeed Salimpour; Michael T. Fitzgerald – Science & Education, 2024
Modern astronomy as a field of inquiry may be shaped by what we consider the "scientific" ways of knowing. However, the history of astronomy as a human endeavour dates back millennia before the "modern" notions of "science". This long history means that astronomy is, at its core, built on a rich cultural diversity and…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Semiotics
T. G. K. Bryce; E. J. Blown – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
This paper provides a critical and detailed study of what researchers in the fields of contemporary cognition and neuroscience have revealed about the blurred boundary between perception and cognition. We set out the arguments with a view to what researchers and teachers should now consider regarding the subtleties of their interrelationship in…
Descriptors: Perception, Cognitive Processes, Science Education, Children
Eleanor S. Armstrong – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2025
In this paper I demonstrate how zines (pronounced 'zeen', a word that is a contraction of 'magazine') about space science can be theorised as a site of science education at the margins. Through exploring different zines and their potential to create counter-narratives I offer a series of objects that might reshape how we teach and learn about…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Astronomy, Space Exploration, Space Sciences
Farney, Michael Noble – Physics Teacher, 2022
Physics teachers are sometimes asked to teach an astronomy course for non-majors. One can't make that class dance and sing without the starry night, but on a brightly lit campus viewing deep sky objects may seem impossible. Hence instructors often opt for planetarium shows. However: 1) Planetariums aren't the real thing. 2) People living in large…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Astronomy, Recreational Facilities
Sunil Dehipawala; Todd Holden; Tak Cheung – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Hurricane and galaxy tidal effect are routine teaching topics in community college first year science courses, but there is a knowledge gap without a quantitative discussion of the physics of non-inertia frame. A survey of YouTube videos posted by Education Centers and professors showed that the hand-waving conceptual explanation is the most…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Astronomy
Melike Güzin Semercioglu; Hüseyin Kalkan – Discover Education, 2025
In recent years, studies by education researchers indicate that, despite various instructional methods to enhance the conceptual understanding of seasons, the reasons for the formation of seasons and the processes involved are still not fully grasped. This research aims to investigate the fundamental reasons for the difficulties in comprehending…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Meteorology
Ollé, H.; Kovács, T. – Physics Education, 2022
Data from the Kepler satellite were analysed using the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes database. With the participation of 53 students, we determined the parameters of the HAT-P-7b (Kepler-2) exoplanet system (transit duration, planet-to-star radius ratio, orbital period, semi-major axis and star mass). We used approaches that are easy to…
Descriptors: Photography, Databases, Physics, Science Instruction
Lockard, Joe; Goggin, Peter – Science & Education, 2023
The paper describes an upper-division university course in Mars literature taught online since Fall 2013. The course readings comprise six novels relating to Mars. Authors include H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Greg Bear, and Kim Stanley Robinson. After an introduction, sections of the paper discuss course…
Descriptors: College Science, Astronomy, Space Sciences, Science Instruction
Andereck, Barbara – Physics Teacher, 2023
The nature and cause of the phases of the moon are widely misunderstood. Perhaps the problem is a general decline in scientific literacy, or maybe it is the loss of direct and regular observation of the moon in society generally. Many people do not see the moon as a half-illuminated sphere. Adults are often surprised to realize that the moon can…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Literacy
CindyJo Fryer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the implementation of classical education in a non-classical charter high school, with a focus on science education using classical methodologies. Employing techniques like copy work, history-based science teaching (HBST), the Socratic method, and the Progymnastmata, astronomy, and chemistry were taught. To identify…
Descriptors: Science Education, Conventional Instruction, Charter Schools, High Schools
Coqueiro Rodrigues, Rojans; Cardozo Dias, Penha Maria – Physics Teacher, 2022
In high school, and also in introductory physics courses in higher levels of schooling, the law of universal gravitation of planets is introduced by postulating Johannes Kepler's three laws, and later Isaac Newton's law of the inverse of the square of the distance to the Sun. The justification of the laws is only achieved in advanced courses in…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Astronomy, Motion, Physics
Rashidi, Azar; Kazemi Golverdi, Mohammad Reza; Soltani, Abbas Ali – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
"Tanjim" means "belief in the effect of the state of the constellations and the movement of stars in human life and terrestrial events" and is one of the topics that have long been of interest to humans, including Muslims. The existence of some narrations, for or against this issue, has caused the jurists of Islamic religions…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Muslims, Islam, Science Education
Proven-Adzri, E.; Ansah-Narh, T.; Aworka, R.; Fosuhene, S. K.; Sottie, S. O.; Gyasi, G. – Physics Education, 2022
The planet Mercury transited the face of the Sun in a rare spectacle on 11 November 2019. It was an awe-inspiring moment for 300 students from Kwabenya Community High School and Ghana Atomic Energy Commission Basic School in Ghana to see this wonder of the cosmos. Celestron Power Seeker 60 mm diameter telescopes were used to project the Sun's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Science Instruction, High School Students
Marley Robinson Belot – Online Submission, 2025
This paper explores how public and student engagement with NASA's Lucy Mission--targeting the Jupiter Trojan asteroids affects informal science learning, interest in planetary science, and youth engagement with space-related careers. Through a mixed-methods study including surveys, observational data, and analysis of public outreach campaigns, we…
Descriptors: Science Education, Space Exploration, Astronomy, Informal Education
Ayse Eren; Sevgül Çalis – European Journal of Physics Education, 2022
This study investigates the effect of life-based teaching using popular science journals on the success of solving life-based questions prepared by associating them with daily life. The study included 6th-grade students studying in a public secondary school in the spring semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. Using the quasi-experimental method,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 6, Secondary School Students, Public Schools