Digital resources and low cost of teaching materials for astronomical education
Abstract
This work presents the results of the application of two questionnaires about Astronomical concepts in three classes in the first year High School of a public school in the periphery of São Paulo. In the first questionnaire was verified the prior knowledge of students. Then the intervention strategies were carried out: use of digital resources of the school, construction of mock-ups using low cost materials and the use of educational books, such as Couper & Henbest (1997), Horvath (2008). After four months, the second questionnaire was applied to verify the occurence of meaningful learning.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of Brazil
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017BASBr..30..102P
- Keywords:
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- Teaching of Astronomy