ASTRONOMICAL PERCEPTION OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL´S STUDENTS IN SÃO PAULO´S STATE SCHOOL IN SUZANO CITY

Authors

  • Edilene França de Oliveira Mestranda em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul.
  • Marcos Rincon Voelzke Professor Titular da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul.
  • Luis Henrique Amaral Professor Titular da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul.

Keywords:

Astronomy Education, National Curricular Parameters, Secondary School Physics, Day-by-Day Astronomy.

Abstract

Although Astronomy is one of the oldest Sciences in the world and many of its concepts are popular, it is possible to observe that a major part of the students do not know about them. This work aims to analyse the basic knowledge of the secondary school´s students of a state school in the city of Suzano, related to the astronomical phenomena, which surround them. It was carried out a questionnaire of multiple choice to 34 students from the first grade, night classes, of the state school Batista Renzi. From the sample, 34 students, only 29.4% of them could understand the succession of the days; 20.6% could explain the seasons of the year and 20.6% had some idea about celestial objects nearer to the Earth. In turn, 67.6% correctly classified the Sun as a star; 55.9% related the Big Bang to the origin of Universe; only 20.6% identified the light-year as an unit of distance and 32.4% recognized a falling star as a meteor. The actual analysis was expanded to more 310 students of other classes, grades and periods of the same school. In this first stage, it can be noted the students´ little discernment of the astronomical events and mainly the great confusion about the appropriate meaning of popular astronomical terms.

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Published

2007-12-01

How to Cite

Oliveira, E. F. de, Voelzke, M. R., & Amaral, L. H. (2007). ASTRONOMICAL PERCEPTION OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL´S STUDENTS IN SÃO PAULO´S STATE SCHOOL IN SUZANO CITY. Latin-American Journal of Astronomy Education, (4), 79–99. Retrieved from https://relea.ufscar.br/index.php/relea/article/view/102

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