The wonder called eclipse
D. KARTHIKEYAN
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Students welcomed this new approach to science learning.
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Attentive audience: Absorbing information.
Tamil Nadu Science Forum, a science popularisation organisation arranged a seminar for school students and teachers on Science of Solar Eclipse recently at Lady Doak College, Madurai.
The seminar tried to present a holistic nature of science such as its history, its properties and its characteristics and also demystifying the myths built around it.
R. Pandurangan Chief Educational Officer, Madurai, inaugurated the seminar in which many school students participated. He said that the success of Chandrayaan could be attributed to our ancestors who calculated the timing of eclipses.
P. Kumarasamy of American College while speaking to the students on Solar Eclipse said that during an eclipse no harmful radiation came from the sun. He explained the science behind the solar eclipse and the advanced calculation for solar eclipse was now ready for the next 5,000 years, which sensitised the students about the inherent property of science.
V. Krishna Kumar of Thiagarajar College said using computer-aided software showed the positions of constellations at different hours of the night.
Myths aplenty
Prof.P. Rajamanickam of Saraswathi Narayanan College spoke on solar eclipses in different civilisations. He said that remembering the events of culture was not unscientific but believing myths as correct was unscientific.
The school students were excited and found this new approach to science learning useful.
This effort to make students participate in science popularisation activities was received well by the teaching community.
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