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    Sep 2000
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   Sep 27, 2001

Space and Earth

CONCEPT: Space Data The students learn that there are many reasons to study Space in an Earth Science course, and that the basic methods of Science also apply to the study of Space. Many of the technologies used to study space have application directly to Earth processes also, and will be referred to later in the course. The students learn how all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are used to study space, especially to study the universe beyond the small area that we can send spacecraft to. Recent discoveries using the em spectrum are used as examples

CONCEPT: Solar System Robotic spacecraft as well as the electromagnetic spectrum have provided information about our solar neighborhood. The technologies developed to explore other planets have increased our knowledge of this planet also. The students will examine some of the information gained from spacecraft in the past, and learn about current missions to other planets, as well as basic information about the structure of the Solar System.

CONCEPT: Earth-Moon System One of the challenges in managing our planet is to treat it as a single, finite object affected by the space it is in. In the last concept in the Space and Earth Section of the course, students examine some of the ways we are affected by the what is beyond the planet, and compare Earth the planet to other planets. The second Test of the year at the end of the first marking period will conclude the Space and Earth Section of the course.

TOPICS:
Why study space?
How do we study space? We do Science!
Nature of solar energy, wavelengths
Intro to the EM Spectrum
Telescopes
Spectroscopy
Space Distances
Doppler Effect and Red Shift
Expanding Universe and the Big Bang

Essential Questions:

1. How do we benefit from exploring the Universe?
2. How can we discover knowledge about places beyond our Solar System?
3. What are humans discovering and what are we still looking for beyond our Solar System?

TOPICS:

How Do Satellites Orbit?
Planetary Explorations
Solar System Distances, Sizes Lab

Essential Questions:

1. How do spacecraft explore the Solar System?
2. What are humans discovering and what are we still looking for in our Solar System?
3. What are the prospects for people to explore the Solar System ourselves?

TOPICS:

Lab exercise: Sun Angle and seasons
Meteorite impact danger
Moon and the Tides
Solar energy balance

Essential Questions:

1. How do the motions of Planet Earth affect us?
2. How is Planet Earth affected by the universe around it?

Some Useful Links from A.W.

1. Canada Exploring the Universe http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=benefits+exploring+universe&hc=0&hs=0 ... space has given numerous benefits to human society as ... collective knowledge about the universe; Canada's astronomers have ... when it comes to exploring space. ...

2. Exhibit Index http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pso/exindex.html ... Exhibit Index, Answering Our Questions About the Universe. Bringing Space Benefits to Earth. Cassini-Huygens: Exploring Saturn and Titan. ...

3. SpaceRef.com http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=3884 ... describe search for habitable planets beyond solar system as new observatories detect molecules ... life in all the right places: where there might be ...

4. Senticentral.com http://www.seticentral.com/articlem.html?ID=16 ... to Mars and another decade beyond that before we can ... sedimentary deposits. By finding places on the martian surface where ... Life in the Outer Solar System. ...

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