Bringing modern astronomy into high-school classrooms

L. Lehman; Lech Mankiewicz; W. Sliwa; Grzegorz Wrochna

doi:10.1117/12.568918

22 July 2004 Bringing modern astronomy into high-school classrooms

L. Lehman, Lech Mankiewicz, W. Sliwa, Grzegorz Wrochna

Proceedings Volume 5484, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.568918
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments II, 2003, Wilga, Poland

Abstract

Nowadays less and less students choose science as their favorite subjects. The main reason is probably lack of interesting and not too difficult methods and exercises which would allow them to be in touch with modern ideas of chemistry, physics and math. One of the ways to raise students' interest in science is to give them first-hand acquaintance with astronomy. In this paper we discuss experience from a high-school praxis gathered with a low-cost system based on a webcam and simple optics.

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L. Lehman, Lech Mankiewicz, W. Sliwa, and Grzegorz Wrochna "Bringing modern astronomy into high-school classrooms", Proc. SPIE 5484, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments II, (22 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.568918

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