Unit 4: Space and Gravity | mrkornfeldsclass

Unit 4:

Space and Gravity

-To the Moon

Astrophysics

The Moon

Rockets and Satellites

Magnets

The Fabric of Space

Tides and Seasons

Storyline:

As the captain of a Lunar mission, you are responsible for designing a flight plan for a one way trip to the moon.

Essential Question:

How do things move in space?

Student Take Aways:

Lunar phases, scale of solar system, and forces exist between objects even when they do not interact.

Big Ideas:

Mass and distance affect gravity.

Vocabulary Challenge

Astrophysics

for students in a hurry

When stars explode, they scatter all of their chemical guts

throughout the galaxy.

Astophysics

Supernova

For the next millions of years the chemical soup cools down and particles collide

(electrons + protons = atoms)

and eventually form comets, asteroids, and even

large gravitational masses.

Who's going to clean up this mess?

The explosion could also turn into a black hole, sucking in objects faster than the speed of light because of how dense the mass is...but let's not go there yet. Too scary.

160826012942-black-hole-breakthrough-lee

Uh-Oh

How fast those star guts (elements) cool and how they are rearranged create the

diversity of minerals

and matter on our planet and in the cosmos.

Buy Carbon Today!

They stick to almost anything!

For instance,

here are the various elements in our sun:

Hydrogen 72%

Helium 27.1%

Oxygen 0.97%

Carbon 0.40%

Nitrogen <0.1%

Silicon <0.1%

Magnesium <0.1%

Neon <0.1%

Iron <0.1%

Sulfur <0.1%

Unit 4:

Space and Gravity

-To the Moon

Storyline:

Essential Question:

Student Take Aways:

Big Ideas:

Vocabulary Challenge

Astrophysics

for students in a hurry

When stars explode, they scatter all of their chemical guts

throughout the galaxy.

Supernova

​

​

​

For the next millions of years the chemical soup cools down and particles collide

(electrons + protons = atoms)

and eventually form comets, asteroids, and even

large gravitational masses.

Who's going to clean up this mess?

​

​

The explosion could also turn into a black hole, sucking in objects faster than the speed of light because of how dense the mass is...but let's not go there yet. Too scary.

Uh-Oh​

​

How fast those star guts (elements) cool and how they are rearranged create the

diversity of minerals

and matter on our planet and in the cosmos.

Buy Carbon Today!

They stick to almost anything!

​

For instance,

here are the various elements in our sun:

Hydrogen 72%

Helium 27.1%

Oxygen 0.97%

Carbon 0.40%

Nitrogen <0.1%

Silicon <0.1%

Magnesium <0.1%

Neon <0.1%

Iron <0.1%

Sulfur <0.1%

Or just watch my former student,

xspencerx

explain it all.

Rockets and Satellites

Uh-Oh