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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29103
Title: A teaching module about stellar structure and evolution
Authors: COLANTONIO, ARTURO
Galano, Silvia
LECCIA, Silvio 
PUDDU, Emanuella Anna 
TESTA, ITALO
Issue Date: 2017
Journal: PHYSICS EDUCATION 
Number: 52
Issue: 1
First Page: 015012
Abstract: In this paper, we present a teaching module about stellar structure, functioning and evolution. Drawing from literature in astronomy education, we designed the activities around three key ideas: spectral analysis, mechanical and thermal equilibrium, energy and nuclear reactions. The module is divided into four phases, in which the key ideas for describing stars' functioning and physical mechanisms are gradually introduced. The activities (20 hours) build on previously learned laws in mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism and help students combine them meaningfully in order to get a complete picture of processes that happens in stars. <P />The module was piloted with two intact classes of secondary school students (N = 59 students, 17-18 years old), using a ten-question multiple-choice questionnaire as research instrument. Results support the effectiveness of the proposed activities. Implications for the teaching of advanced physics topics using stars as fruitful context are briefly discussed.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29103
URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/52/1/015012
ISSN: 0031-9120
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6552/52/1/015012
Bibcode ADS: 2017PhyEd..52a5012C
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