Title
3D Visualization in Elementary Education Astronomy: Teaching Urban Second Graders about the Sun, Earth, and Moon
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2010
Publication Source
Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research
Volume
111
Inclusive pages
500-505
Publisher
Springer
Place of Publication
Berlin Heidelberg
Edition/Version
Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-642-16318-0
Peer Reviewed
yes
Abstract
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 the implementation of such technologies. We also project that these technologies could revolutionize when these concepts could be taught to children and expand the ways we think about children’s cognitive capacities in understanding scientific concepts.
Keywords
sterioscopic vision, astronomy, early childhood education, technology in elementary education, virtual environments
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Opus Citation
Zeynep Isik-Ercan, Beomjin Kim, and Jeff Nowak (2010).
3D Visualization in Elementary Education Astronomy: Teaching Urban Second Graders about the Sun, Earth, and Moon. Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research.Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ed.111, 500-505. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
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