1. Mobile Planetarium as Teaching
and Communication Tool
mr Nataša Stanić, Aleksandar Otašević and
Jovan Aleksić
Astronomical Society „Ruđer Bošković“
Belgrade
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• Short history of the MP1
• MP as teaching tool2
• Meet your new
colleagues3 • MP as communication tool
3. Short history of MP project
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Short history of MP project
Stationary VS mobile?
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MP as teaching tool
1. What we teach?
2. How we teach?
3. When we teach?
4. Why we teach?
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1. What we teach?
• Celestial sphere and constellations
• Apparent motion of celestial objects
• Earth rotation
• Solar system – planet zoom
• Nebulas, M objects - zoom
• Deep sky objects (HST images) - zoom
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2. How we teach?
• In correlation with existing teaching units, terms and concepts
• Following the official education plan and program
• Lectures are age appropriate
• We use interactive and conversation method rather than monologue
• We ask the questions all the time
• We give guide lines for further astronomy education (suggest
stationary Planetarium and Public Observatory visit, suggest books)
• In cooperation and consultation with subject teachers
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3. When we teach?
During regular school classes of:
• Geography
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Biology
• IT classes
• Painting classes
• Literature classes
• English classes
• Sport classes
• Music classes
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4. Why we teach?
• To increase Universe awareness (among kids and their teachers)
• To increase natural science teaching subjects correlation
• To increase scientific knowledge
• To encourage further scientific research
• To initiate problem solving
• To make kids appreciate knowledge
• To bring kids joy of learning and discovery
• To enjoy
11. Time
Research
Hypothesis: natural science teaching subjects correlation
could be significantly increased in MP teaching; Universe
awareness (among kids and their teachers) increases;
Interest in further scientific research increases among kids;
Schoolchildren appreciate knowledge.
Implication: Inovation in
planning, organisation
and realization of
teaching process with MP
Conclusion: MP is helpful teaching tool
Testing hypothesis:
50 MP visits, 22 cities,
16174 visitors
(15000 schoolchildren)
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Testing hypothesis:
50 visits, 22 cities,
16174 visitors
(15000 schoolchildren)
MP Visits
School visits 45/50
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Science Festival,
Novi Sad
(school visits)
May 2013.
19. Criteria
Level of participation
Technical tools
Verbal material
Type senses used
Communication type
Monologue, dialog,
interactive lectures
Technical mediated
communication
Nonverbal (decorations, HST
images) and verbal (text)
Visual communication
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Testing hypothesis:
50 visits, 22 cities,
16174 visitors
(15000 schoolchildren)
MP Visits
School visits 45/50
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Science Festival
Belgrade 2013
Star Detectives in
Mobile Planetarium:
3500 visitors
in 4 days
December 2013.
22. MP Technical dificulties
• The dome (balloon) is tearing apart
(4 sewing repairs for 1 year of work)
• The projector is within its last few hours of work
(5 hardware repairs and still in the testing process for the
following school year 2014/15)
• There are no appropriate transporting conditions (private cars only)
• Financial support for this activity doesn’t exist – ASRB has lost
support of city government in February 2011
• Working condition (if MP is functional) are far under standards
(high fan noise, 5-10 projections per day, driving, equipment
installation and reinstallation – often in the same day)
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Lead Contact information
Nataša stanic.natasa@gmail.com
Aleksandar al.otasevic@gmail.com
Jovan jovan.aleksic@gmail.com
Questions and comments:
