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Short description
Have you ever imagined to be a sky observer at the time of Galileo in Pisa? Through the observations of Venus, you could be ahead of your time and make a scientific revolution showing that the planets revolve around the Sun.
Age of the students
14-17
Duration
3 hours (max.).
Educational objectives
Cognitive
– Use of Stellarium for learning of celestial object motions.
– To understand what sidereal and synodic periods are and to calculate them.
Affective
– To have a taste of the scientific revolution by Galileo and his contemporaries
Psychomotor
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Links to the curricula of each country
Soon.
Tools used
Soon.