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Ohio Standard: Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level Indicator: (Grade: 12) 4. Explain how astronomers infer that the whole universe is expanding by understanding how light seen from distant galaxies has longer apparent wavelengths than comparable light sources close to Earth.
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Stargazers
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ORC# 8050
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Resource URL: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/starga...
Resource Type: Lessons
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 11–12
Professional Commentary: This lesson requires students to complete a simple activity demonstrating the concept of redshift. From this activity students should be able to draw the conclusion that that the universe is constantly expanding....
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The Universe
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ORC# 8051
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Resource URL: http://cas.sdss.org/dr4/en/proj/teachers/basic/universe/lesson.a...
Resource Type: Lessons
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 11–12
Professional Commentary: This project requires students to explore the universe by completing a project that has been broken down into 5 - 45 minute sections. Topics covered throughout these sections include the 'expanding universe,' the "Big Bang" theory, redshift and blueshift, electromagnetic radiation, The Doppler Effect, and many other aspects of the universe....
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The Expanding Universe
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ORC# 8045
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Resource URL: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Universe/uni1.html
Resource Type: Lessons
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 11–12
Professional Commentary: This lesson is designed to help students gain a deeper understanding of cosmology. Students develop a model of the expanding universe and gather evidence to support the Big Bang theory....
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Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
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ORC# 3286
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Resource URL: http://www.arachnoid.com/sky/index.html
Resource Type: Content Supports
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: In 1826, the astronomer Heinrich Olbers asked, "Why is the sky dark at night?" By his time, physicists had learned enough to realize that, in a stable, infinite universe with an even distribution of stars, the entire universe should gradually heat up. In these pages you will learn the simple physics behind Olbers' question, some of...
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Runaway Universe
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ORC# 8100
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Resource URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/
Resource Type: Content Supports
Discipline: Science
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: This content resource provides several interactive tools for exploring the history of the universe. Tools include: an interactive timeline that reveals the evolution of the universe from the big bang to the time 10100 years from now; a feature demonstrates, step-by-step, the sequence of events that results in Type Ia and Type II supernovae; a VRML...
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