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Score: 8
Awarded the NGSS Design Badge
Science Discipline: Physical Science, Earth and Space Science
Length: Unit
Year Reviewed: 2024
How have collisions with objects from space changed Earth in the past, and how could they affect our future? This unit is designed to introduce students to the motion of objects in our solar system through the perspectives of matter, force, and energy. The learning is anchored by the appearance of a large fireball in the sky over Siberia in 2013 (the Chelyabinsk meteor). This phenomenon provides the context in which to investigate how and why objects from space sometimes collide with Earth. To figure this out, students apply the concepts of Newton’s universal law of gravitation, orbital motion, energy transfer with gravitational fields, and the history of Earth.
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NGSS Design Badge
Awarded: Jun 25, 2024
Awarded To: OpenSciEd Unit P.4 Meteors, Orbits, & Gravity
The NGSS Design Badge is awarded only to the version of this unit that was reviewed. If any modifications are made to this unit, the revised version cannot be promoted as having earned the badge.
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