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A Study Of The Effectiveness Of The Planetarium And The Classroom In The Teaching Of Constellations, Theodore V. Smith
A Study Of The Effectiveness Of The Planetarium And The Classroom In The Teaching Of Constellations, Theodore V. Smith
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This study investigated three methods of teaching constellation recognition to different age groups. The treatments were: (1) teaching constellations in the classroom by means of 35mm slides of hand drawn constellation star fields, (2) teaching constellations in the planetarium by means of 35mm slides of hand drawn constellation star fields, and (3) teaching constellations by means of a planetarium sky, and the Ss represented three age categories: children, teenagers, and adults. The total number of Ss completing the study was 103. The results of the analysis indicated: (1) regardless of treatment all age groups performed approximately the same when evaluated …