Physics – Physics Education
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010phtea..48..573n&link_type=abstract
The Physics Teacher, Volume 48, Issue 9, pp. 573-577 (2010).
Physics
Physics Education
Astronomy, Moon, Physics Education, Planets, Solar System, Student Experiments, Demonstration Experiments And Apparatus, Solar System Objects, Moon
Scientific paper
One of the fundamental learning goals of introductory astronomy is for the students to gain some perspective on the scale and structure of the solar system. Many astronomy teachers have laid out the planets along a long strip of paper1 or across a school grounds or campus.2 Other activities that investigate the motion of the planets are often computer based,34 hiding the awe-inspiring distances between the planets. Our human orrery activity, adapted from the design at the Armagh Observatory in Ireland,567 combines the best of both approaches by creating a working model of the solar system that mimics both the scale and the motion of the planets.
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