科普活動：認識原住民科學智慧：南島語族星空航海體驗活動推廣

This outreach project aims to cultivate school teachers’ and students’ respect of indigenous culture and appreciation of their wisdom in science. Therefore, the project extends the prior project to add an experience activity of navigation which allows participants to apply their astronomy knowledge in navigation on the sea. The insights from Austronesians’ navigation with their wisdom in science thousands years ago are utilized as learning activities to cultivate participants’ literacy of multiple cultures. This year, we emphasize more on teachers’ professional development by increasing conceptual understanding in astronomy and teaching strategies of POE (Predict-Observe-Explain) and problem solving. The experience activity of navigation will be enacted as teams of a teacher and students to help teachers learn how to manage outdoor activities and develop their risk control knowledge. With outreach activities, we expect that school teachers build their confidence in designing and enacting outdoor activities. Teachers who participated in the professional development workshops expressed a high level of satisfaction with the workshop in their feedback questionnaires and found the workshop content to be practical. According to the statistics, 96.8% of the participating teachers were "very satisfied with the course design and arrangement," and 77.4% reported a better understanding of the "application the POE teaching strategy in astronomy education." This indicates that the training activities provided by this project meet the professional development needs of in-service teachers. Most students who participated in the astronomy inquiry activities felt that the course helped them grasp the basic concepts and operational skills of using a star compass. They were able to gain a preliminary understanding of the principles behind using stars for navigation and their potential applications (e.g., nighttime maritime navigation). This reflects that daytime activities like assembling a Celestial globe, nighttime stargazing, and discussing their use in navigation helped students transform abstract astronomical knowledge into practical skills. Based on the survey results, the astronomy inquiry activities implemented in this project effectively achieved multiple educational goals: learning astronomical knowledge, applying that knowledge in outdoor stargazing, and understanding the connection between astronomy and Indigenous culture. In the future, timely guidance for individual students experiencing difficulties with hands-on tasks can be strengthened to enhance overall learning efficiency and boost students' confidence in learning astronomy.