SPACE— You spin my world right 'round
Use mathematical or computational representations to predict the motion of orbiting objects in the solar system. HS-ESS1-4
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Our Earth rotates around its axis once every 24 hours. It revolves around the Sun once every 365 days. At our sun's distance from the center of the Milky Way, Earth revolves around once about every 225-250 million years.
Our Earth rotates around its axis once every 24 hours. It revolves around the Sun once every 365 days. At our sun's distance from the center of the Milky Way, Earth revolves around once about every 225-250 million years.
- How can we use math-based models to predict the movement of planets and other objects in the solar system?
- What are the key factors influencing the orbital motion of planets, moons, and other celestial bodies?
- How does the shape of an orbit affect other aspects of orbital motion? How can changes in Earth's orbit affect natural phenomena here on Earth?
Phase A: Orbital Motion
Phase A: Orbital Motion
Earth is becoming increasingly uninhabitable. Accelerating climate change is driving our planet toward conditions that cannot sustain human civilization as we know it. Your team has been selected for the New Hope Mission — humanity's effort to find a new home among the stars.
This summative traces the three steps your mission team must complete to design the satellite orbit that makes the search possible — each task builds directly on the one before it.
Mid-Unit Theme: Natural Climate Forcing
Mid-Unit Theme: Natural Climate Forcing
Phase B: Measuring Distances and Habitability of Exoplanets
Phase B: Measuring Distances and Habitability of Exoplanets
Summative
Summative
Interns, your Phase A lunar satellite has stabilized and your Phase B sighting and spectral instruments are fully online. Deep-field telemetry has locked onto three candidate host stars — Vex-7, Kaido-9, and Rendal-3 — in a previously uncharted sector. Your flight crew must triangulate each star's distance, decode its chemical fingerprint and surface temperature, classify it, and determine whether any of its planets fall within a habitable Goldilocks zone. Only one candidate star has a world worth a probe.
Additional Lessons and Activities
Additional Lessons and Activities
To overwork or exhaust oneself by doing too many things, especially both late at night and early in the morning.
Oh, Denise is definitely burning the candle at both ends—she's been getting to the office early and staying very late to work on some big project.
burn the candle at both ends. (n.d.) Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. (2015). Retrieved November 5 2020 from https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/burn+the+candle+at+both+ends
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