Astronomical Concepts in Early Childhood Education: Are 5-year-olds able to understand the day / night cycle through the earth's rotational motion?
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Children’s Education, astronomy, day-night cycle
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the conceptions of boys and girls in Early Childhood Education (5 years), before and after an intervention in the classroom, regarding the movement of the earth and the day-night cycle, and check for evolution in their explanations. In the study participated 16 students from a 5-year-old classroom from a public school in the province of Alicante. It is a study with a quasi-experimental design, in which, between the Pre-Test and the Post-Test, an intervention was carried out that showed how the day-night cycle occurs both by modeling and by viewing a video. In addition, imitations with objects simulating the Earth and the Sun were performed. The collected data has been analyzed through qualitative methods, using semi-structured interviews before and after the intervention as data collection instruments. The results show that a high percentage of the students, after the intervention, was able to explain the day-night cycle by means of the movement of the Earth's rotation.
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