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Teaching Future Teachers Basic Astronomy Concepts--Sun-Earth-Moon Relative Movements--at a Time of Reform in Science Education
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Trumper, Ricardo – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2006
In view of students' alternative conceptions about basic concepts in astronomy, we conducted a series of constructivist activities with future elementary and junior high school teachers aimed at changing their conceptions about the cause of seasonal changes, and of several characteristics of the Sun-Earth-Moon relative movements like Moon phases,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers