2022 Volume 74 Issue 3-4 Pages 111-127
The system for learning the position of celestial bodies in science education changes from the horizontal coordinate system to the equatorial coordinate system as students progress from elementary school to high school. Therefore, science teachers must have a good understanding of these two astronomical coordinate systems and their relationship. However, in the astronomical experiments of the current teacher training course, there is no practical training to systematically and quantitatively deepen understanding of these. Therefore, we have developed a practical training method for observing astronomical objects using the horizontal coordinate system and converting the obtained horizontal coordinate values into equatorial coordinate values. Practicing this training method for students training to become teachers confirmed its effectiveness and clarified some points to consider during its implementation.
