Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

The aim of this work is to use Astronomy concepts within comics to motivate Physics classes. It was applied at the Casimiro Silva State School, in Brazil, with 40 high school students. For the development of the Learning Object, software for comics was used. The pre-test was applied on the dates of August, 2021 and then interventions were carried out on the subject of electromagnetic wave, spectral bands and radio waves and with the delivery and explanation of the Comics, as a Learning Object, addressing communication between planets and between Earth with Voyager 1 and 2. After a period of four months, the same questionnaire, was repeated to verify the potential significant learning. It was verified that the methodological strategy reflected in the improvement of the performance.

Biography:

Marcos Rincon Voelzke is currently a full professor at Cruzeiro do Sul University in Brazil. He has experience in the area of Astronomy, with an emphasis on Planetary Systems, working mainly on the following themes: Astronomy, Astronomy Teaching, Education, Comets, Comet 1P/Halley and Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.