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NGSSS Standards:

 

  • SC.8.E.5.10 Assess how technology is essential to science for such purposes as access to outer space and other remote locations, sample collection, measurement, data collection and storage, computation, and communication of information. High (EOC)

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  • SC.8.E.5.11 Identify and compare characteristics of the electromagnetic spectrum such as wavelength, frequency, use , and hazards and recognize its application to an understanding of planetary images and satellite photographs. High (EOC)

 

Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings:​

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  • Technology allows scientists to investigate the universe in ways that were not possible before the technology existed.

  • Technology is changing which in turn changes the ways scientists can investigate and interpret our universe.

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Essential Questions:

 

  • How has advances in technology allowed us to increase our knowledge of space?

  • How do the properties of stars allow us to organize them?

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Content:

  • The universe is an immense system that requires different technologies to investigate it.
    Technology is used in space science to collect samples, measure data, collect and store data, compute and communicate information.

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  • NASA has multiple space programs that investigate space. Ex: Hubble, Webb, Chandra, MESSENGER, and Mars Explorers.

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Skills:

  • Analyze how technology has increased our knowledge of the universe.

  • Interpret data from a chart.

  • Interpret data from remote man made sources.

  • Compare and contrast the differences in data as technology has improved our knowledge of space.

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