Astronomical Scale of Stellar Distances Using 3-D Models

Chuck Fidler; Sharon Dotger

Science Scope Vol. 34, No. 3 (November 2010) pp. 38–44

One of the largest challenges of teaching astronomy is bringing the infinite scale of the universe into the four walls of a classroom. However, concepts of astronomy are often the most interesting to students. This article focuses on an alternative...

Researching Student Use of School Science Images

John C. Park; David Slykhuis; Sharon Dotger

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4724–4730

Science teacher uses of images have been documented in the education literature for the past 110 years. Practitioners have used images via student drawings, photographs, projected images, images in microscopes and telescopes, textbook images, and...

Topics: Science, Students, Computer Sciences, Computers