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Astronomy education journal Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.32374/aej.2023.3.1.124edi

Urban Eriksson, Saeed Salimpour

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Promoting perspective-taking in astronomy by casting images from a phone or tablet up unto a screen 通过将手机或平板电脑上的图像投射到屏幕上，促进天文学的视角

Astronomy education journal Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.32374/aej.2023.3.1.042aep

Pierre Chastenay

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PD Days Under the Moon: Teaching Lunar Phases to In-Service Teachers by Doing Astronomy Like Astronomers Do and its Impact on Their Students’ Learning 月下的PD日:通过像天文学家一样做天文学来教在职教师月相及其对学生学习的影响

Astronomy education journal Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.32374/aej.2023.3.1.037ra

Pierre Chastenay

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Could strengthening the skills of proportional calculus improve astronomy learning in children? 加强比例微积分的技能能提高儿童的天文学学习吗?

Astronomy education journal Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.32374/aej.2023.3.1.050ra

Valeria Edelsztein

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MESA-Web: A cloud resource for stellar evolution in astronomy curriculum mesa网:天文学课程中恒星演化的云资源

Astronomy education journal Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.32374/aej.2023.3.1.047ra

Fields, Carl E., Townsend, Richard H. D., Dotter, A. L., Zingale, Michael, Timmes, F. X.

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