Phenomenon--

What do you know about the Big Bang before you listen to this source? 

 

 

 

How does it add to your knowledge?

What do you still need to know?

 

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Inquiry science

       Printable activity

      On-line activity:

Investigate the Big Bang Theory: GO TO page + search Big Bang Theory and open two of the CfA (Center for Astrophysics) links

    

LAB activities follow all safety guidelines linked above

and in the activity

Lab #1 See video: Deciphering the Vast Scale of the Universe  How big is the Universe? And how did you know it? PBS

Lab #2 Big Bang Balloon activity Page 21 Discovery Channel

Lab #3 How the Universe will End--which theory is likely? Why? Science Museum, London

Lab #4 Big Bang Simulation activity NASA

      

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EXTENSION material for the curious

Listen to the sound of the universe from the Planck spacecraft  NASA

And Shock waves in the galaxy NASA

Large scale structure of the Universe NSF

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Aerospace CONNECTIONS:

Applications and examples

Origins of the Universe National Geographic video

The Interferometer that helped to discover the Big Bang Theory AND a Radiometer and a Cryostat Smithsonian Learning Lab

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