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In this hands-on activity, students explore the relationship between angular width, actual size, and distance by using their finger, thumb and fist as a unit of angular measurement. They should learn to relate angular width to actual size using distance; quantify the relationship between angular width and distance; and understand why the Sun appears smaller from Pluto than from Earth.
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Students
will
use
various
objects
in
the
classroom
to
experiment
with
nonstandard
measurement.
They
will
make
estimates
and
test
them
out.
Then,
working
in
pairs
or
small
groups,
students
will
use
a
ruler
or
a
measuring
tape
to
become
familiar
with
how
to
use
these
tools
for
standard
linear
measurement.
The
purpose
of
this
activity
is
to
practice
making
standard
and
non-standard
measurement
and
to
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Ships
travelling
between
Lake
Ontario
and
Lake
Erie
use
the
Welland
Canal.
Beginning
with
a
conversation
between
characters
Mathise,
Geo,
and
Trig,
they
explain
how
a
lock
in
the
canal
operates
by
gravity
alone,
without
pumps.
The
characters
use
mathematics
to
solve
problems
such
as
how
long
the
locks
take
to
fill
and
how
to
express
the
volume
and
flow
of
water
in
more
common
terms
(bathtubs
of
water
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This
booklet
is
a
collection
of
15
problems
that
involve
data
from
the
Hinode
solar
observatory.
These
problems
cover
topics
in
sunspot
structure,
spectroscopy,
solar
rotation,
magnetic
fields,
density
and
temperature
of
hot
gases
and
solar
flares.
The
math
skills
covered
include
finding
the
scale
of
am
image
to
determine
actual
physical
sizes
in
images,
time
calculations,
volumes
of
cylinders,
graph
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This
site
is
the
Lesson
Guide
of
an
archived
NASA
(National
Aeronautics
and
Space
Administration)
CONNECT
program
designed
to
show
how
NASA
engineers
and
researchers
use
data
analysis
and
measurement
to
predict
solar
storms,
anticipate
how
they
will
affect
the
Earth,
and
improve
our
understanding
of
the
Sun-Earth
system.
It
contains
an
activity
in
which
students
will
discover
the
solar
cycle
through
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This Website contains over 200 authentic math problems that cover solar physics, space physics, radiation dosimetry, and the human impacts of space weather. The problems range from pre-algebra to calculus and span the math skills appropriate for grade 8-12 students. The problems are taken from authentic applications of arithmetic, graph analysis, pre-algebra, and algebra.
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This resource covers basic astronomy, Newtonian mechanics, the Sun and related topics (weather, electromagnetic waves, nuclear energy), and space flight. The material stresses space applications, history, and intuitive content, and includes a brief refresher course on algebra and trigonometry. It is also available in Spanish.
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Project
SkyMath
is
a
mathematics
module
for
middle
school
students,
developed
by
the
University
Corporation
for
Atmospheric
Research
(UCAR).
The
goal
of
the
pilot
project
is
to
demonstrate
that
acquiring
and
using
current
environmental
and
real-time
weather
data
in
middle
school
classrooms,
in
ways
that
embrace
the
dynamic
and
the
uncertain
natures
of
these
data,
will
promote
the
teaching
and
learning
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Users
download
and
analyze
satellite
images
showing
the
amount
of
ozone
in
the
stratosphere.
They
interpret
the
images
to
identify
the
ozone
"hole"
that
develops
over
Antarctica
each
summer,
and
compare
its
size
from
year
to
year.
Using
freely
available
image
analysis
software,
ImageJ,
users
quantify
the
area
of
the
Antarctic
ozone
hole
each
October
from
1996
to
2004.
Finally,
they
bring
their
measurements
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Using
a
color
chart,
students
will
make
observations
outside
during
each
of
the
four
seasons.
During
each
session,
they
will
try
to
find
as
many
colors
as
possible
and
record
what
they
see.
As
a
class,
they
will
make
charts
describing
the
colors
they
find
in
each
season.
At
the
end
of
the
school
year,
students
will
compare
their
results
and
generate
conclusions
about
variations
in
colors
in
nature
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