General Information for Teachers Each unit covers ten academic words and includes the following components: Teacher Notes which include a word list with meanings and examples to use for direct instruction of word meaning

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• Big Bang
• Physical cosmology
• Universe

BIG BANG Music by Kellee McQuinn and Keith Davis Lyrics by Kellee McQuinn HANNAH: I know I can do it. Iʼm going to finish this project, and itʼs gonna turn out awesome. Iʼll just ask for a little help from my friends.

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California standards: Grade 6: Heat (Thermal Energy) (Physical Science) Heat moves in a predictable flow from warmer objects to cooler objects until all the objects are at the same temperature. As a basis for understandi

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• Light sources
• Physical cosmology
• Plasma physics
• Planetary science
• Stellar astronomy
• Big Bang
• Universe
• Galaxy
• Sun
• Physics
• Space
• Astronomy

From Rubber Bands to Big Bangs The Universe has been expanding for almost 14 billion years from a smaller, hotter, denser form to its present cooler, larger, and less dense form. You might ask, “What is expanding, and

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• Space
• Cosmic microwave background radiation
• Redshift
• Big Bang
• Metric expansion of space
• Star
• Universe
• Electromagnetic radiation
• Wavelength
• Physical cosmology
• Physics
• Astronomy

Object: Observable Universe 300,000 years after the Big Bang Distance from Earth: 13.6 billion light-years

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Another Look at the “Cosmic Calendar” 13.7 billion years is easy enough to say for the age of the Universe, but do we really have a sense of what that means? In this activity we will try to get a sense of the major e

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• Nuclear chemistry
• Neutron
• Physical cosmology
• Radioactive decay
• Proton
• Time
• Universe
• Nuclear binding energy
• Big Bang nucleosynthesis
• Physics
• Nuclear physics
• Baryons

Assignments: written and oral discussion and alternative assessments Many cultures have a creation myth or story, often in the form of a fairytale.

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• Science
• Big Bang
• Dark energy
• Cosmic microwave background radiation
• Ultimate fate of the universe
• Dark matter
• Universe
• Inflation
• Scientific theory
• Physics
• Physical cosmology
• Astronomy

California standards: Grade 6: Heat (Thermal Energy) (Physical Science) Heat moves in a predictable flow from warmer objects to cooler objects until all the objects are at the same temperature. As a basis for understandi

Source URL: www.universeadventure.org

• Light sources
• Physical cosmology
• Plasma physics
• Planetary science
• Stellar astronomy
• Big Bang
• Universe
• Galaxy
• Sun
• Physics
• Space
• Astronomy

journal issue 10|December 2010 Communicating Astronomy with the Public

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• Physical cosmology
• International Year of Astronomy
• Big Bang
• European Southern Observatory
• The Big Bang Theory
• Fred Hoyle
• Cosmology
• Science journalism
• Tom Van Flandern
• Physics
• Astronomy
• Science

NAME____________________________ Website Questions to go with the reading from Universedaventure.org. What was the accidental discovery of Penzias and Wilson?

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• Space
• Cosmic microwave background radiation
• Big Bang
• Age of the universe
• Doughnut theory of the universe
• George Smoot
• Physical cosmology
• Physics
• Astronomy