Importance, Uses and Demonstration of Hands on Activities for the astronomy Education in Classroom
- Paper number
IAC-17,E1,8,6,x37879
- Author
Mr. Suman Gautam, Pokhara Astronomical Society, Nepal
- Year
2017
- Abstract
The Coverage of Astronomy Education is limited for Secondary and Lower Secondary Education in Nepal. Students have very less Practical knowledge for the better understanding of astronomy Education in the classroom. Only 10 \% of the Entire courses contain the syllabus of astronomy Education. But it doesn’t focus on any practical activities. Many Governmental schools cannot afford even a celestial telescope for the night sky observation. This presentation mainly focuses on the uses importance and demonstration of Hands constructed activities like Constellation models, telescope models, Star Clock, Sundial, Solar motion, for the better understanding of astronomy Education in classroom. These activities are constructed on the basis of naturally available resources. My experiences working with those activities with kids, students and teachers and the ways of demonstration, will be explained which is believed to play vital role in promoting and encouraging practical classroom astronomy education in Nepal.
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