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Um pequeno passo: uma sessão de planetário para as Séries Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental

2020; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15536/reducarmais.4.2020.356-378.1818

2237-9185

Cecília Petinga Irala, Rafael Kobata Kimura, Guilherme Frederico Marranghello,

Science Education and Pedagogy

This paper presents the evaluation of fulldome planetarium show creation that deals with the Moon (phases, eclipses and space race) for children in the initial grades of elementary school. Given the scarcity of research papers in science teaching and science communication for planetariums, this article intends to contribute to the development of research in this area by also covering a brief historical review and presenting a succinct theoretical basis on planetarium research. The show was created taking into account cultural aspects of astronomy and was based on several small fragments of different works that guided the construction of fulldome planetarium shows. To evaluate the show, a quantitative and qualitative research was conducted, with standardized tests and interviews conducted by the stimulated memory method. The results indicate that the show demystifies some misconceptions that children had about the moon and that associating legends increases the expectator's affective connection with the show. Considering the scarce national literature on the production of planetarium sessions, we hope that this work contributes significantly to the development of research in the area.