"Little Astronomers" and the Milky Way of Chinese Traditional Sky: Example Analysis of Teaching Astronomy in Primary Schools

“Little Astronomers” and the Milky Way of Chinese Traditional Sky: Example Analysis of Teaching Astronomy in Primary Schools

Presenter: Liu Jing, Science and technology counselor of Guangxi Science and Technology Museum, China

This was a poster presented at the 4th Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education, organised by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE, http//astro4edu.org).

This contribution takes the content of the sixth grade Chinese Distant Altair Star of the Guangxi edition of the primary school people’s education edition as an example, expounds the basic principles of developing activities with textbooks, analyses the characteristics of the development and design of such activities and the specific operation and implementation of such activities. The full text discusses and analyses how to use the methods of “role theory” and “situation creation” to turn the virtual into the real. It constructs the situation and ignites the students’ interest, stimulating exploration and promoting thinking, and emphasises hands-on exploration and personal experience.

About the 4th Shaw-IAU Workshop:

The topic for this year’s Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education is ‘Leveraging the potential of astronomy in formal education’ and is scheduled to run 15 to 17 November 2022 as a fully virtual event on Hopin as in previous years. This year’s Shaw-IAU Workshop focuses on the role of astronomy in the core regions of formal, primary and secondary, education: How do we teach astronomy as its own subject? What is the role of astronomy in teaching physics or chemistry – or in communicating such a central future topic as climate change? In sessions marked with a * we aim to hear specifically from teachers. We also address the question of how to approach those who set the framework for teaching: How can you get your administration, or at a much higher level: your education ministry, to listen to you? Last but not least we look at how to bridge the divide between the fundamentals that are commonly taught in school and results from cutting-edge research, which tend to be fascinating to students and the general public alike. he workshop was organised by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education (http://astro4edu.org). More details can be found on: https://astro4edu.org/shaw-iau/4th-shaw-iau-workshop/

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