Theories explaining astronomical phenomena at children and adults
Theories explaining astronomical phenomena at children and adults

Summary/Abstract: Knowledge about the globe, place of the Earth in the outer space and the phenomenon of the day and the night or the phases of the Moon is not reserved only for adults. Children are encountering it on television, multimedia programs, while watching films about nature, also in many stories, fairy tales and legends. They are also trying to explain straight astronomical phenomena e.g. cause of the day and the night. It means that they are building children’s astronomy in their mind. In the article I am presenting children’s intellectual models, that is the ways of explaining astronomical phenomena, as well as findings conducted amongst students (future teachers) who appear to manifest persistent explanatory theories.

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