Investigating Stars
The only star in our solar system
What is the sun?
A pattern of stars that can form the shape of an image.
What is a constellation?
The Earth and the other 7 planets orbit around this object.
What is the Sun?
In this model your head is the earth and your nose is a mountain.
What is Mount Nose model?
In order to show that a sentence has ended we use this punctation mark.
What is a period?
The closer a ball of light is to you.
What is the brighter and larger it is?
We found multiple constellations for the artifact last week. Name one.
What is Orion? What is Pegasus? What is Scorpius?
When an object follows a curved path around another object. (Ex. the Earth does this with the Sun)
What is orbit?
The posters we added to the Mount Nose model were images of..
Name one..
What is a constellation?
(Orion, Cetus, Pegasus, Aquila, Ophichus, Virgo, Leo and Monoceros)
The first thing a scholar should write on every paper.
What is name and date?
The reason why stars in the sky appear to be small and dim.
What is the stars are far away?
These constellations are only seen during specific times of the year. Most people are assigned specific constellation names when they mention their birth date.
What is a birth sign or horoscope?
Earth's rotation takes up this much amount of time.
What is 24 hours? What is one day?
In our most used computer simulation we found that the Earth does two things in Sky view as time progresses.
What is the Earth spins and orbits the Sun?
Scholars should always use this model to answer short response questions.
What is R.A.D? What is restate, answer and detail?
We can't see stars during the daytime. We can only see them during the nighttime.
What is the sun is too bright?
The reason we see different constellations year round.
What is Earth's spin and orbit?
Earth's orbit around the Sun takes up this much time.
What is 1 year or 365 days?
In the globe model, students place stickers on different parts of the world. When it is daytime in one country it can be nighttime in another.
What it is the Earth rotates? or What is a time zone?
The force that pulls objects down on Earth. This force also pulls the Earth towards the Sun.
Ex. A volleyball falls down when released from a pair of hands.
What is gravity?
The distance that scientist use to measure how far stars are from Earth.
What is a lightyear?
Canis Major and Canis Minor
What are Orion's dogs names?
The Earth orbits the Sun in a similar way that the this celestial object orbits the Earth.
What is the Moon?
Student A is holding a marble near Zeus.
Student B is holding a basketball but is 100 yards away from Zeus.
Although, the basketball is larger than a marble they appear to be the same size to Zeus.
What is the further away an object is the smaller it looks?
We found that the artifact depicted three constellations found in the months December, September and June. The missing piece will most likely be in which month..
What is March?