What do you call a tiny collection of galaxies? A puny-verse! Young scholars graph data gathered by scientists studying Cepheids. They attempt to identify a relationship between the variables through standard and logarithmical graphing. At the end, they read the paper written by the original scientists and compare theories.

Concepts

graphing data, logarithms

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• A field trip to a planetarium or having a guest speaker come to class would help clarify these concepts

Classroom Considerations

• The lesson requires a great deal of prior knowledge from math, physics, and space science
• The exercise would best fit at the end of a unit covering Cepheids

Pros

• The lesson is in a 5E format
• Materials include an answer key for the graphs

Cons

• Resource does not include any hands-on components

Common Core

HSF-IF.C.7.e HSF-TF.B.7 RST.11-12.9