Description
Astronomy is the field that deals with numbers that are "astronomical" and often hard to comprehend for students. One of the most powerful tools to get the students to appreciate how big these astronomical objects and distances are by use of a scale model. In this activity we introduce the idea of a card game, a sorting task, and making use of everyday objects to represent the astronomical scales in the way that a layperson can comprehend, and learning details from atoms to the universe in the way that is not only informative, but engaging and fun.
Primary author
Matipon Tangmatitham
(National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT))
