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Direct linkHechter, Richard P. – Physics Education, 2020
'It is the belt!' This is how middle school teachers in a science teaching professional development program rationalized why they believe Orion is the most recognizable of all constellations in the night sky. It was from this foundation that we chose Orion to be the focus of a four-phase ethnoastronomy-based project reported here. Ethnoastronomy,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Faculty Development
