"Looking for the Moon"; a teaching intervention based on observation about the frequency of the appearance of the moon in the sky during a month

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Φυσικές Επιστήμες στην Εκπαίδευση
Library of the School of Education
Deposit date:
2020-01-07
Year:
2020
Author:
Micha Elisavet
Supervisors info:
Κρυσταλλία Χαλκιά, Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Original Title:
«Αναζητώντας τη Σελήνη»: μια διδακτική παρέμβαση με βάση την παρατήρηση για τη συχνότητα εμφάνισης της Σελήνης στον ουράνιο θόλο κατά τη διάρκεια ενός μήνα
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
"Looking for the Moon"; a teaching intervention based on observation about the frequency of the appearance of the moon in the sky during a month
Summary:
The purpose of this research is to investigate the extent to which students of upper elementary school can acquire - within the context of school science - the scientific view of the revolution of the Moon around the Earth within a synodic month (29.3 days), relying on the frequency with which the moon appears in the celestial sphere. To investigate this, a teaching intervention was applied to students of the sixth grade, which was based on the systematic observation of the celestial sphere with the aim of searching for the moon in a period of a month (during the day and night) and on teaching the apparent movement of the moon in a constructivist learning context. A pre-test (semi-structured individual interview) was implemented to investigate the initial ideas of students on the phenomena under research and a post-test was implemented to control any change in the initial ideas after the teaching intervention.
The aim of this postgraduate thesis is the design, implementation and evaluation of the first part of the teaching intervention, i.e. the observation of the sky for one month, twice a day and at a specific time (once in the morning and once in the evening). The main objective was to investigate the extent to which students of the sixth grade can reach the conclusion, through the teaching intervention implemented, that for an immovable observer on Earth and at a specific time during the day or night the moon is visible about half the days of each month and that the moon appears to rise each day with approximately 50 minutes delay. The investigation showed that the majority of students can reach the above conclusions and modify the common misconception that the moon is always visible during the night and it is not visible during the day, so that using this data they can construct the scientific view of the revolution of the Moon around the Earth within a synodic month.
Main subject category:
Education - Sport science
Keywords:
Teaching Astronomy, revolution of the Moon around the Earth, apparent movement of the Moon, observation
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
37
Number of pages:
84
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