Unit 2, Lesson 4: Big Bang Basics
Learning Target: I can explain how key terms relate to one another.
Class Activities:
1. Students had a do now quiz! It was only 4 points. There will be another quiz at some point before the end of the marking period, and I will take the higher of the two scores.
2. On their Unit 2 vocab sheets, students copied down several definitions:
3. Students began working on a word web for the following terms (can choose 1 term to leave off the word web):
•Astronomy
•Atom
•Thresholds
•Collective Learning
•Goldilocks Conditions
•Complexity
•Entropy
•Origin Story
•Ingredients
•Big Bang
I'm attaching the beginning of a word web, so you know how to get started. Don't forget to write an explanation of how the bubbles connect on the word web.
Papers handed in today:
Changing Views of the Universe Worksheet
Homework:
Word Web
Class Activities:
1. Students had a do now quiz! It was only 4 points. There will be another quiz at some point before the end of the marking period, and I will take the higher of the two scores.
2. On their Unit 2 vocab sheets, students copied down several definitions:
- astronomy— The branch of science that deals with the Universe and the various objects, like stars, planets, and galaxies.
- atom— A small unit of matter composed of protons, electrons, and usually neutrons. Atoms are basic building blocks of the matter we see in the Universe and on Earth.
- Big Bang— A theory, first articulated in the 1920s, proposing that the Universe started out extremely hot and dense and gradually cooled off as it expanded.
- Collective learning— The ability to share, preserve, and build upon ideas over time.
3. Students began working on a word web for the following terms (can choose 1 term to leave off the word web):
•Astronomy
•Atom
•Thresholds
•Collective Learning
•Goldilocks Conditions
•Complexity
•Entropy
•Origin Story
•Ingredients
•Big Bang
I'm attaching the beginning of a word web, so you know how to get started. Don't forget to write an explanation of how the bubbles connect on the word web.
Papers handed in today:
Changing Views of the Universe Worksheet
Homework:
Word Web
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