Percent Increase and Decrease Quiz

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Question Exploration: What Are the Solar Activity Sunspot Cycles?

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What are the solar activity sunspot cycles? Sunspots increase and decrease through an average cycle of 11 years. This Question Exploration helps Ss explain how the spotless Sun turns dark, releasing solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Question Exploration Routine is an instructional methods that teachers can use to help a diverse student population understand a body of content information by carefully answering a critical question to arrive at a main idea answer. The Concept Compari

7th - 12th, Higher Education

Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Graphing

NGSS

HS-ESS1-1

Question Exploration: How Is Illumination Affected By Distance?

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TheScienceGiant

How is the Brightness of a Bulb Affected by Distance? This Question Exploration examines this Essential Question, and helps Ss answer the idea of how to increase the illumination of a desktop when they study. Question Exploration Routines are instructional methods that teachers can use to help a diverse student population understand a body of content information by carefully answering a critical question to arrive at a main idea answer. Students taught using the Content Enhancement routines ear

9th - 12th, Higher Education

Astronomy, Physical Science, Physics

NGSS

HS-PS4-5

, HS-ESS1-2

, HS-PS4-1

Question Explore: What Methods Measure Ultra Space Deep Distances? Parallax

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TheScienceGiant

This Question Exploration asks the Essential Question about cosmic distances: What Methods Do Astronomers Use to Measure Ultra Deep Space Distances? (from radar and parallax, to standard candles and Tully-Fisher Relationship used to measure distances to galaxies). Included are two activities on the scale of the universe for student assessment to be used as a warm up or after class review. The first is a classroom formation line-up, the other is a two-inch universe modeling about scale and ratio

7th - 11th, Higher Education

Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Science

NGSS

5-ESS1-1

, MS-ESS1-2

Also included in: StayGiant Earth Science Bundle: Astronomy (space exploration)