1. Practice: Paste Notes here when done
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Early Astronomers
Moon Phases and Eclipses
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Early Astronomers
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12/15/2014
Practice: Paste Notes here when done
Application: Time Line
Exit :
The baton has been passed through many Astronomers. What do you think the leading belief is for the formation of the universe? (remember, Hubble said our Universe is still expanding today…)
Starter:
Explain what you know about astronomy
Connection:
If you were present on Earth during a time of zero technology and all you had was your own personal perspective, what would you think was going on in the universe?

2. TURN IN YOUR VOCAB!!!
1. Starter 2. Notes 3. Connection 4. Exit
December 15, AGENDA Objective 8.8E Research how scientific data are used as evidence to develop scientific theories to describe the origin of the universe by reading and writing while completing notes.

3. Table of Contents Date Lecture/ Activity/ Lab Page
11/ Quiz and Writing
11/ CBA Review
11/ Solar System
11/ Solar System Web
11/ Solar System Writing and Quiz
11/20-12/1 Solar System Web
12/ Planetary Soda Pop Lab
12/ Conditions for Life
12/ Space Mission Notes
12/ Solar System II with Writing
12/ Space Exploration
12/ Space Mission Poster
12/ Early Astronomers

4. Early Astronomers

5. Astronomy The study of all the physical objects beyond Earth.
Most thought that the universe consisted of only the sun, the moon, and the planets.

6. Claudius Ptolemy · Date of Birth: about 90 AD
· Date of Death: about 168 AD
· Nationality: Greek
· Dates of discovery: 140 CE
 In 140 CE, thought the Sun and the other planets revolved around the Earth and that the Earth was the center of the universe (geocentric).
He predicted that each planet and the sun orbited in a perfect circle around the Earth (geocentric theory)..
Earth Center

7. · Date of Birth: 1473
· Date of Death:
· Nationality: Polish
· Dates of discovery: 1543
Came up with heliocentric theory that said the Earth and the other planets revolved around the Sun.
Said each planet had its own orbit and moved in the same direction around the Sun in different amounts of time.
Nicholas Copernicus
Sun centered

8. Tycho Brahe Date of Birth: 1546 · Date of Death: 1601
· Nationality: DANISH
· Dates of discovery: 1500.s
In the late-1500’s, a Danish astronomer came up with a theory that the sun and the moon revolved around the Earth, while the other planets revolved around the sun.
While his theory was not correct also, he was able to record data listing the exact position of the sun, moon, and planets.
Tycho Brahe

9. Johannes Kepler
Date of Birth: December 27, 1571
Date of Death: November 15, 1630,
Nationality: German
Dates of discovery:1594–1630
It was a sixteenth century German mathematician and astronomer, assistant of Tycho, that discovered that the planets do not revolve in orbit in perfect circles in paths shaped like ellipses or oval orbits. He was correct.

10. Galileo Galilei Date of Birth:15 February 1564
Date of Death: 8 January 1642 Nationality: Italian
Dates of discovery: Late 1500’s
In 1609, he became the 1st person to use a telescope to observe objects in space.
With this telescope, he was able to discover the 4 moons of Jupiter, craters and mountains on the moon, and sunspots.
He also favored Copernicus’s theory of revolution over Ptolemy’s.

11. Sir Issac Newton
Date of Birth: December 25, 1642
Date of Death:March 20, 1727
Nationality: English
Dates of discovery: Late 1600”s
Finally in 1687, a scientist, Newton theorized the movement of the planets.
Newton said that a planet’s motion around the sun is the result of two factors, inertia (a law stating that a moving object will not change speed or direction unless an outside force causes a change in direction) and gravity.
Inertia causes the planet to move in a straight line while gravity pulls the planet toward the sun. When the two combine, the planet moves in a elliptical orbit.

12. Edwin Hubble · Date of Death: 1953 · Nationality: American
· Date of Birth:
· Date of Death:
· Nationality: American
· Dates of discovery:
He profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of redshift observed in light coming from a galaxy increased in proportion to the distance of that galaxy from the Milky Way. This became known as Hubble's law, and would help establish that the known universe is expanding.

13. Percival Lowell
· Date of Birth: 1855
· Date of Death: 1916
· Nationality: American
· Dates of discovery: The early 20th century
Being as dedicated as he was to studding Astronomy, Lowell believed that Mars was a home to an advanced civilization. He also published three books showing his views. Lowell's greatest contribution to astronomy was finding “planet x” his theory was not proved until after his death but thanks to him we now know of Pluto.

14. Albert Einstein · Date of Birth: March 14, 1879
· Date of Death: April 18, 1955
· Nationality: German
· Dates of discovery: Early 20th century (1905)
He came up with the Theory of Relativity (E=mc2),which addresses the speed of Light and showed that absolute time had to be replaced by a new absolute: the speed of light.

15. IV. Connection
If you were present on Earth during a time of zero technology and all you had was your own personal perspective, what would you think was going on in the universe?
V. Exit
The baton has been passed through many Astronomers. What do you think the leading belief is for the formation of the universe? (remember, Hubble said our Universe is still expanding today…)

16. Practice: Paste Notes here when done
123
Early Astronomers
Moon Phases and Eclipses
124
Early Astronomers
12/15/2014
12/15/2014
Practice: Paste Notes here when done
Application: Time Line
Exit :
The baton has been passed through many Astronomers. What do you think the leading belief is for the formation of the universe? (remember, Hubble said our Universe is still expanding today…)
Starter:
Explain what you know about astronomy
Connection:
If you were present on Earth during a time of zero technology and all you had was your own personal perspective, what would you think was going on in the universe?