This week, we returned to the project we started before Christmas. We used the calculations we did to map out the orbital shapes of the planets.
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Your budding astronomers have learned about the sun, the motions of the earth and moon around the sun.
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Today we looked at the terrestrial planets and compared them to earth. We talked about how they were different with an eye toward finding one with the potential to send a human.
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This week, we began learning about the specific dynamics between the Sun, Earth, and Moon.
Read MoreThis week, we worked on comparing our planet, the Earth with the 3 other terrestrial planets: Mercury, Venus and Mars.
Read MoreSlinkies + some physics + a little math = guitar construction that plays the relationship between sound waves, frequency, pitch, and hertz.
Read MoreThis week, we finished planning our videos on the Life Cycle of Stars. We created the visuals, audios, and written captions for the videos, which I will be putting together.
Read MoreLate last week, we built on the last session to complete the life cycle of the star. We reviewed how stars come to life, before diving into the three main types of star death. We learned that stars become white dwarf stars, neutron stars, or black holes depending on mass. We also learned about the clouds of material that are left behind - nebulas - and how these clouds are important to the overall cycle.
Read MoreThis week, we built on our knowledge of the Sun to talk about the relationship between the Sun and the Earth.
Read MoreAs we dove into the topic of astronomy, we first took a look at our very own star: the Sun! We learned what happens inside of our star to get a general idea of the nature of stars. The girls are all very inquisitive scholars, and we covered A LOT for one lesson!
Read MoreAs we begin learning about the life cycle of a star, we started looking at the process that get gaseous clouds moving to created a whirling vortex of space dust which eventually results in a proto-star with a lot of built up pressure.
Read MoreBecause a light year is the distance light travels in one year, this tells us how many years it takes for the light to reach us from another object, and vice versa. We discovered what we would see happening on earth if we were located on different objects in space (and had very powerful, magical telescopes). We went further and further away until we could see complex life evolving on earth!
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