Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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04 "Making Sense of the Universe" Prt 2

Chapter 04 Making sense of the Universe 
Part 2

Newton's Law of Gravity




Process of Science: Testing the Law of Gravity





Key Concept: Understanding Tides

  

Thursday, September 20, 2012

04. Making Sense of the Universe Part 1

Chapter 4: Making Sense of the Universe
Part 1
Visual Activity: Exploring a Person’s Weight in a Moving Elevator






Ranking Task: Gravity and Newton’s Laws







Vocabulary in Context: Describing Forms of Energy



Wednesday, September 19, 2012

"03 The Science of Astronomy"

Part A:


Falsifiable

  • Kennedy died from a bullet in his brain
  • Kennedy was the 35th president of the USA
Not Falsible
  • Kennedy death was the will of God
  • If he lived Kennedy would have ended the Vietnam war
  • the war of Kennedy was the act of evil
  • Kennedy murder was orchestrated by an undetectable shadow government of the US.


Part B



  • The chemical content of the universe it Is mostly hydrogen and helium.
  • The sun is at the center of the solar system
  •   The observable universe contains approximately 100 billion  galaxies
  • Earth is at the center of the solar system 

Falsifiable

  • The laws of nature a magnificent and beautiful
  • The universe was created by God
  • We are playing playthings in a computer program created by advanced aliens 
Vocabulary in Context: Kepler's Planetary Orbits
Part A
Ranking Task: Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion

Parts A through C all refer to the orbit of a single comet around the Sun.
             Part A

 
                Part B
Part C
Part D
 Part E
                  Part F
     Part G

Visual Activity: Phases of Venus
Part A













Part B 

Part C






























Part D







Part E













Process of Science Task: Earth-Centered vs. Sun-Centered Models
Learning Goal:
To understand how evidence allows us to distinguish between alternate possible models of the solar system.
Imagine that you did not know whether Earth is the center of the solar system (as the Greeks assumed) or just one planet going around the Sun. In this activity, you will consider a set of observations, some real and some not real, that could help you distinguish between the Greek Earth-centered model and our modern Sun-centered model. Note that, in the Greek Earth-centered model, the planets Mercury and Venus lie between Earth and the Sun, while all other planets orbit Earth beyond the orbit of the Sun.

Part A
 


Part B






Part C
Part D