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The Global Warming Debate and the Arctic Ice Cap
In this global warming and the Arctic ice cap worksheet, students use two graphs showing data about the amount of Arctic sea ice between 1950 and 2006 and the percent of people surveyed that believe the Earth has gotten warmer over the...
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Asteroid Eros
For this asteroid image worksheet, students observe a photograph taken by the NEAR imager and they determine the scale of the image following the given steps. They solve 4 problems using the scaled image and determine the dimensions, the...
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The Volume of a Hypersphere
For this volume of a hypersphere worksheet, students solve 4 problems where they find the volume formula and calculate the volume given the dimensions of the hypersphere.
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Chandra Studies and Expanding Supernova Shell
In this supernova learning exercise, students read about the expanding supernova shell that was discovered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Students solve two problems including finding the scale of the given images and determining the...
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Solar Surface Details
In this solar surface activity, students use a photograph taken by the Swedish Vacuum Telescope to answer 6 questions about the solar features in the photograph. Students determine the scale of the image, they determine the smallest...
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Beyond the Blue Horizon...Advanced
In this calculating the horizon worksheet, students solve 6 problems using algebra, derivatives and calculus to find the formula for the line-of-sight horizon, the distance along a planet, the horizon distance and the rates of change for...
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Solid Rocket Boosters-II
In this solid rocket boosters activity, students solve 2 problems using a grid showing a cross section of a proposed solid rocket booster. Students complete the grid and shade the rings of combustion in 15-second step intervals. They...
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Exploring the Ares 1-X Launch-Downrange Distance
In this Ares 1-X launch worksheet, students read about the path of this rocket's launch and solve 2 problems. Students find the number of seconds it took the rocket to fall from a given altitude and they determine how far from the launch...
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Exploring the Ares 1X Launch-Parameters
For this rocket launch worksheet, students solve 3 problems about the Ares 1X rocket and its launch, trajectory, and motion in both the vertical and horizontal direction.
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Collapsing Gas Clouds-Stability
In this collapsing gas clouds activity, students read about the Bok Globules seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. They use a given equation indicating the pressure of a gas sphere and determine at what minimum radius the cloud would start...
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Calculating Arc Lengths of Simple Functions-I
In this calculating arc lengths worksheet, students are given 4 simple functions and they use the Pythagorean Theorem and the basic techniques of calculus to find the arc-length formula in order to find the arc-length.
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The Ant and The Turntable-Frames of Reference
In this frames of reference learning exercise, learners solve 5 problems given the details of a journey an ant takes from the center of a CD ROM to its edge. Students draw a scaled sketch of the turntable showing the motion of the ant...
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LRO Explores Lunar Surface Cratering
In this lunar surface learning exercise, learners use an image taken by the LRO satellite to investigate the size of craters on the moon's surface, to determine the crater density and to find the average distance between the craters.
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LRO-Searching for Lunar Boulders
In this lunar boulders worksheet, students use an image taken by the LRO satellite of the surface of the moon to find the scale of the image and determine the number of boulders and their approximate sizes.
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LRO's First Image of Mare Nubium
In this scale image worksheet, students use an image taken by the LRO satellite of Mare Nubium to determine the scale of the image, the diameter of the smallest crater and a comparison scale drawing of a house.
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LRO and the Apollo-11 Landing Site
In this Apollo-11 landing site worksheet, students read about the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that will collect images at a higher resolution than ever before. Students study a grid showing the lunar landing site from Apollo...
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The Martian Dust Devils
In this martian dust devils instructional activity, students use images of a dust devil captured by NASA's Spirit rover to calculate the distance the dust devil traveled, the speed, and its acceleration or deceleration.
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LRO Sees Apollo 11 on the Moon!
In this moon image worksheet, students determine the scale of an image taken by the LRO satellite of the Apollo 11 landing site. Students calculate the sun's angle at the time of the photograph using the shadow of the Lunar Lading...
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Star Circles
In this star circles worksheet, students solve six problems given a diagram of a time-exposure photograph of the stars. Students determine the scale of the image, the location of the North Celestial Pole, they identify Polaris and they...
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Our Neighborhood in the Milky Way
In this Milky Way galaxy worksheet, students are given a table of distances and angles of nebulae and star clusters from the sun. Students plot each one on a piece of paper and solve 2 problems using the data.
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The Mass of the Moon
In this mass of the Moon worksheet, students use the lunar orbit and the orbit period to determine the mass of the Moon. They solve 4 problems including finding the mass of the Moon, determining the ratio of the Moon's mass to the...
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Planet Fractions and Scales
In this planets and fractions activity, students solve nine problems about the sizes and scales of planets compared to each other using fractions.
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Athletes: Brain Teaser
For this brain teaser worksheet, students solve 1 short answer word problem. Students determine who out of four people is a golfer given various information about the four people.
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Direct, Inverse and Joint Variation
Eleventh graders identify, create and solve word problems involving inverse variation. In this algebra lesson plan, 11th graders solve problems using direct, inverse and joint variation. They identify problems using these methods.