The use of astronomical databases to perform practical work in the process of teaching astronomy

Abstract

The process of learning astronomy should include such a component as the search for astronomical information, as well as provide conditions under which each student will be able to turn such information into his/her knowledge. That is why an important component of a modern lesson should be the students’ purposeful mastery of the skills of working with information, its search and assessment in terms of compliance with the educational goal, etc. Currently, multimedia educational products, pre-prepared by the teacher with the help of a computer and information from the Internet, are an essential means for creating and satisfying students’ interest in learning in general. An important condition for deepening the interest in learning, and therefore deeper assimilation of knowledge, is not the eyeing of interesting pictures (for example, multimedia presentations), but the individual work of the student to transform information while doing educational tasks. However, the essential thing, in this case, is that, on the one hand, the information arrays have huge volumes, and therefore certain experience is needed to search for specific information, and on the other hand, although they are concentrated in numerous repositories, access to them is often open.