The Moon Project: Student Research and Lesson Design in an Introductory Geoscience Course for Pre-service Teachers

摘要

I have developed a hands-on guided-discovery course for future teachers that includes a semester-long research project about the moon. This project, which is designed to give students the experience of conducting a long-term scientific investigation, requires students to make daily naked-eye observations of the moon and construct graphs of given data (such as moonrise/set times and dates of moon phases) in order to discover and demonstrate a variety of phenomena related to the moon. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]