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LTA does not mean low standards or low expectations. According to teachers from Dominican Republic and the USA, two countries with different realities and approaches to technology, LTA has been useful. Regardless of the teachers background, LTA has an enormous impact in breaking down walls and making science fun, interesting and approachable. LTA is highly beneficial for teacher training since the amount of technical knowledge and skills required can be intimidating. The Low-Tech and High-Quality correlation in Astronomy Education.Popoviciu Computer Science School Cluj-Napoca) After many years of teaching I realize that most important are not the formulas, not the problems solving, not to use very sophisticated devices but to make students to imagine, to see or to visualize, using simple objects and if it's possible the objects they have in the classroom.Ĭorina Lavinia Toma (IAU associate member, T. Why do we have to travel at first in a circular orbit? What is an escape velocity? What is a Hohmann transfer orbit? What is a launch window? These are some of questions the project answers.

I present a project achieved with my students about a travel in our Solar System. To achieve this the teacher must use intuitive models and experiments. In-Ok Song (Korea Science Academy of KAIST)Īstronomy means many difficult notions and the teacher must know the power of understanding of a child and to make space for real empathy and creative solutions.

Besides the low cost and portability, the home-made planetarium can encourage sharing of ideas, problem solving and creativity amongst students. The main advantage is student engagement: hands-on construction, planning and implementing a planetarium programme. Having the dome to conduct Astronomy Lessons reduces the need to have a perfect weather all the time for star gazing, which is a rare event in light polluted cities. The design that I am proposing is a 6-meter diameter dome, which can accommodate about 15 students comfortably at any time. Development of Student's Planetarium for the teaching of AstronomyĪ home-made planetarium is a STEM project for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.

(Colegio Retamar de Madrid,), Ederlinda Viñualesįor more information about this talk click here (Technical University of Catalonia), Ricardo Moreno Beatriz Garcia (ITeDA (CNEA-CONICET-UNSAM) and National Tech.

Jorge torres mendoza national academies press