Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Teaching and Learning Sequence concerning Apparent Movement of the Moon
Abstract
The present study focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of a Teaching and Learning Sequence for the Apparent Movement of the Moon and it is part of a broader research regarding apparent movements of Sun-Earth-Moon system from an educational point of view. The Teaching and Learning Sequence was designed as a means of 'constructing' the scientific information that the Moon revolves around the Earth at a period of a synodic month. Dealing with students' alternative idea that the Moon appears every day at the sky with a 24hours delay, seems to be the most crucial point of the Sequence. This alternative idea, as bibliography shows, is subjected from the widespread erroneous belief that the Moon is always visible at night. The research was carried out in six (6) primary schools of Athens with a sample of forty (40), 5th grade students.
- Publication:
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10th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
- Pub Date:
- January 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012hell.confR..31S