Oct. 7 to 10
Post date: Oct 10, 2013 8:52:21 PM
Keywords: Orbit, Lander, Rover, NASA
Warm-ups:
Solved two density problems on screen
Should we go to the moon again? How about Mars?
Watched: To the Moon - National Geographic
Notes should have answered the following:
What started the “Space Race”?
Why are rockets divided into stages?
Explain the three different ideas to get to the moon.
What president decided to go to the moon? Why?
What did the 6 Mercury missions achieve?
What did the Gemini missions accomplish?
Why were space walks so difficult? How did they fix it?
What tragedy happened before the first Apollo mission?
What does “the far-side of the moon” mean?
What is the LEM?
What did the first rock samples say about the moon?
What happened to Apollo 13?
How did the moon form?
Objectives
Find the density of small odd shaped objects.
Describe orbits and space travel
Explain the leading theory for how the moon was formed and the evidence for it.
Due
Density Worksheet 1 10/7
Test Corrections 10/8