As to the problem of student drawings: we should require students to use drawings in answering any essay questions we ask. In objective tests, drawings and...
The reference is L.A. Coleman, D. F. Holcomb, and J. S. Ridgen AJP vol. 66(2), Feb 1998, p. 124. They hedge a bit. I found out more by talking to Rosanne...
Last week my five year old granddaughter was visiting. Now, I am well aware that the spatial sense of five year olds is not what we are talking about here. ...
... LOL, I was afraid you were going to ask that! I had to search all over last year in order to come up with the same information for our librarian, and now...
My "research"; into the problem of students not reading figures comes from one-on-one interaction with students when they come for help. The nature of their...
... I'm not sure about the scale issue, but the student reactions I've seen tend to indicate that most students don't seem to notice the scale problems in...
Hi: I would like to repeat part of an old mail of mine, hoping it is of use for some of you. Regards, Mariangela LNA ... You need: . a terrestrial globe, . a...
Hi again, B5 Raven: Curiously enough, I found the reference in Roettger's last mail: take a look at cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/sed/resources2.html Regards, ...
Dear B5 Raven, ... I would thus appreciate if you could give more details on that video, such as authors, instituion, so that I can try to buy a copy. Thanks! ...
K-12 Astronomy Benchmarks from Project 2061 (draft 15 August 2000) Timothy F. Slater, Montana State University, Department of Physics, Bozeman, MT 59717-3840...
I realize that, but it's an intriguing idea. B5 Raven ... ===== ======================================= The avalanche has already started. It is too late for...
I recommend you find a copy of the video "A Private Universe," which deals with overcoming students' preconceptions, using misconceptions about lunar phases...
At the recent ASP conference, some of us were kicking around, over several conversations, some key research questions that need to be addressed. If you are...
Hi all Has anyone seen any research on the scale of the Earth Moon system. That perhaps students have problems with lunar phases because the drawings are so...
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... Thank you! Yes, I am interested; please do send (to me, at least - it may be a bit much for the list) whatever's available. The urgency of the K-2 help is...
I just did a class of 5 year olds. By far the biggest hit was the Perseus-Andromeda-Cassionpea story, told with reference to the pictures in: "The Stars, A...
... http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/proc3abstracts.html lists the article file as: http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/proc3mac/Comins-Astronomy.dp.sit.hqx but I can't read...
Hi all, Actually, I don't think that the Miscon3 article has the complete list f misconceptions. As I recall, it was too long for the publication :-). ...
<Forwarded from the Indiana science listserve -Elizabeth> The full text of "Designing Effective Professional Development: Lessons from the Eisenhower...
Dear Dr. Roettger and colleagues, I have some little experience with small children. I hope the following may help you: . Take a look at "The Universe in...
I taught a group of first graders about the Moon and its phases by taking them in small groups and having each group sit together in the middle of the room...
Greetings, all - I need to compile a list of materials to help teach astronomy to the young - kindergarten through 2nd grade. I'm trying to do this within a...
A CD is available from George Greenstein and Amy Lovell containing instructional software and a set of animations and actual data relating to orbits, the...
