Enacting Planets to Understand Occultation Phenomena
Physics Education
2019-10-22 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
The Solar System motivates students to interest themselves in sciences, as a large number of concepts may be easily introduced through the observation and understanding of planet's motion. Using a large representation of the Solar System at a human scale ("a human Orrery"), we have conducted different activities with 10 to 16 years old children. In this contribution, we discuss the different scientific concepts covered by the Human Orrery, allowing the connection of both science and mathematics subjects in schools. We then detail how this pedagogical tool may serve to introduce abstract concepts required to understand occultation phenomena through a modelling activity.
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@article{arxiv.1910.09403,
title = {Enacting Planets to Understand Occultation Phenomena},
author = {Emmanuel Rollinde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09403},
year = {2019}
}
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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1909.01630