Astronomy Education By Pursuing Specific Projects For Students In Planetarium Setup
TalkTeaching Methods and Tools
5th Shaw-IAU Workshop
Thursday Nov. 30, 2023
UTC: 8:45 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. America/New_York: 3:45 a.m.- 3:55 a.m.
Thursday Nov. 30, 2023
UTC: 7:15 p.m. - 7:25 p.m. America/New_York: 2:15 p.m.- 2:25 p.m.
Jayant Ganguly (Regional Science Centre and Planetarium Calicut)
By undertaking one’s own research project, students are expected to extend their exposure to topics covered in their curriculum. They should realize the importance of data collection through various experiment setups, data analysis, visualization and representation methods adopted in their fields of study. RSCP, Calicut, over the years, have designed and developed experimental setups that the college students can avail, take data, analyze them and come to concrete conclusions so as to train themselves in experimental methods of astronomy. In this presentation we try to establish how these cheap yet rigorous experimental techniques fulfil the basic objective of astronomy teaching in the colleges.
About Jayant Ganguly
Jayant Ganguly is an officer at Regional Science Centre and Planetarium Calicut (RSCPC) which is a unit of National Council of Science Museums under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He is affiliated to this institution for the last 27 years. He works in the field of astronomy outreach and education in particular and STEM communication in general. He has worked in projects towards conceptualization and development of more than 40 planetarium shows, a large number of science galleries and temporary exhibitions at the center.
