Astronomy in the Physics Curriculum of a Physics and Mathematics Class

Authors

  • Dmitry Lisachenko Academic Gymnasium named after D. K. Faddeev, St Petersburg State University

Keywords:

interdisciplinary integration, physics, specialized education at school

Abstract

The article summarizes the author’s experience of reintroducing astronomy as a separate school subject in the 2019/20 academic year, coordinating this course with the main physics curriculum, and, after astronomy was discontinued as a separate subject at the end of the 2023/24 academic year, transferring part of its content into the physics course. Astronomy was taught in the spring semester of Grade 11, which made it possible to build on knowledge that had either already been acquired in the physics course or was being learned in parallel. A number of astrophysics problems are presented, aimed primarily at finding non-standard, intuitive, and approximate solutions.

Author Biography

Dmitry Lisachenko, Academic Gymnasium named after D. K. Faddeev, St Petersburg State University

Teacher at the Academic Gymnasium named after D.K. Faddeev, St Petersburg State University; member of the Union of Translators of Russia; Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (PhD); Associate Professor

References

Язев С. А. Школьная астрономия: контуры нового учебника / Астронет // Современная астрономия и методика её преподавания: материалы III Всероссийской научно-практической конференции. СПб : Изд-во РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена, 2002. URL: http://www.astronet.ru/db/msg/1177124/50.html.

Чаругин В. М. Астрономия. 10–11 классы : учебник. Москва : Просвещение, 2019. 144 с. ISBN 978-5-09-067980-0.

Лисаченко Д. А. Астрофизика в школьной физике. URL: http://www.physlab.info/astroedu.htm ; Личная страница автора статьи.

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Published

2026-03-20

How to Cite

[1]
Lisachenko, D. 2026. Astronomy in the Physics Curriculum of a Physics and Mathematics Class. Astronomy Education. 1, 1 (Mar. 2026), 30–35.

Issue

No. 1 (2026)

Section

Astronomy and School Education

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