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3d Visualization In Elementary Education Astronomy: Teaching Urban Second Graders About Sun, Earth, And The Moon, Zeynep Isik-Ercan, Beomjin Kim, Jeffrey Nowak

Zeynep Isik-Ercan

This research-in-progress hypothesizes that urban second graders can have an early understanding about the shape of Sun, Moon, and Earth, how day and night happens, and how Moon appears to change its shape by using three dimensional stereoscopic vision. The 3D stereoscopic vision system might be an effective way to teach subjects like astronomy that explains relationships among objects in space. Currently, Indiana state standards for science teaching do not suggest the teaching of these astronomical concepts explicitly before fourth grade. Yet, we expect our findings to indicate that students can learn these concepts earlier in their educational lives with …