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http://dx.doi.org/10.21796/jse.2022.46.2.151

Exploring Effects of a Visual Material Driven by Earth-Based Perspectives on the Spatial Representation of 5th Graders  

Hyoung-Jin Kim (Seoul Samsun Elementary School)
Seong-Hwan Jeong (Jihaeng Elementary School)
Myeong-Kyeong Shin (Gyeongin National University of Education)
Nan-Joo Kwon (Gyeongin National University of Education)
Gyu-ho Lee (Gyeongin National University of Education)
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Journal of Science Education / v.46, no.2, 2022 , pp. 151-164 More about this Journal
Abstract
The 2015 revised science curriculum textbook of 6th graders describes 'day and night' as an astronomical phenomenon observed on a daily basis. Textbooks use only visual materials from a space-based perspective to explain the causes of day and night. This study aims to investigate what changes in spatial representations of 5th graders when additional visual materials of the Earth-based perspective were presented to them. It also shows that the Space and the Earth-based perspectives appear to be interconnected. The following are found in this study. First, when students were presented with a visual material of an Earth-based perspective, their spatial representations of both the Earth and the Space-based perspectives changed. Second, the visual material of an Earth-based perspective confirmed the possibility that students' spatial representation types could be different in many ways. Third, the effect on the spatial representation of each perspective is different depending on gender and the level of spatial representation.
Keywords
Earth-based perspective; space-based perspective; spatial representation; visual material; spatial representation; day and night;
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