Astronomy: BIG, FAR and FAST are Relative in Space
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This Course includes great BONUS LESSONS:What on Earth is Astronomy. Mini-Lesson: EclipsesMini-Lesson: Meteor ShowersMini-Lesson: AuroraProject Artemis: America Returns to the MoonBIG, FAR and FAST challenges your concept of what constitutes size, distance and speed in astronomical terms. BIG looks at size in the universe by comparing celestial objects with the sizes of things we are more familiar with close by.
FAR takes you on an amazing trip around the universe on a plane, the space shuttle and finally a beam of light to understand how far things really are in space. FASTLearn about speed in space and on the Earth, and see how an object's movement effects the object and everything around it - even time. Big1.
Objective2. Warm-up activity3. Exploring the concept of size using the Earth, inner planets, outer planets, the Sun and other stars4.
The concept of relativism5. What numbers really mean6. The largest star in the galaxy7.
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