This is the Casals-Gràcia Astronomy Blog, where you can run into all the activities related with the Universe. You can also find attached the links of the students.



Tuesday 25 February 2020

Activity #4: Create a compass or sundial

1. Choose the compass or the sundial
2. Search in the internet how to create this instrument
3. Create a new post including: title, introduction, materials, procedure, results and
sources
4. Bring the material and create this instrument
5. Attach your own pictures of the result

Tuesday 11 February 2020

Activity #3. Big bang, the origin and the expansion of the Universe

1. Create a little text (2 or 3 paragraphs) explaining the origin of the Universe or Big Bang
and its expansion. Use the following websites:
Big bang webside #1
Big bang webisde #2
Big bang video #1

2. After, you have to explain the theory of the Universe’s Expansion using the following
material: a balloon, a marker and a ruler. Take different pictures of the process.
3. Use the images you have taken and this website giphy.com to create a GIF of the work done.

Steps:
a) Click create, at the right top of the screen
b) Then, “Choose photo or GIF” and choose an image
c) Under the picture, click “add more images” and “Browse files”
d) Choose the seconds of each image, write a tittle for the GIF and “enter your
captation”.
e) Then , click “Continue to upload” and “Upload to Giphy”
f) Lastly, click “Embed” and copy the code you will need to add to the post of you blog.

Activity #2. Astronomer's timeline

Taking the astronomers from the exercise 1, create a timeline.
Use the online software: Readwritethink

Tuesday 4 February 2020

Activity #1 Famous Astonomers

Build a table with 5 well-known astronomers. In that table you must include:

  • Name
  • Date of birth
  • Main thinking
  • Image
(create a label with the name "Astronomy history")