Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

In this talk, we present a workshop that aims to support the design of an interdisciplinary unit anchored in an astronomic topic, aligned to the national education standards to be applied at school time. By first identifying the students' needs and astronomy interests, the workshops support the teacher's design of a unit structured around a guiding question, with activities in every discipline that gather evidence to answer it, and a final assessment that integrates all the gathered evidence for answering the question. Its implementation in a Chilean public high school is also presented, where a group of five teachers of physics, biology, and art designed a unit to answer What does it means that we are stardust?". Finally, school conditions for a successful implementation are discussed."

Biography:

Maximiliano Montenegro holds a Bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, and a Ph.D. in Education from The Ohio State University, OH, USA. He currently works as a researcher in the Education departmentof the Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinario en Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad de La Serena, after participating for more than ten years as an academic in the preservice teacher programs of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the department of Sciences. His research interest is discipline-based education research, and as a Science Educator, he has been awarded more than ten awarded government-funded projects.

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