Category: Global Systems Science
Online curriculum books for high school science pertinent to key societal issues
Climate Change
CLIMATE CHANGE addresses the controversial question of how human activities may be changing Earth’s climate. See Overview. Contents Chapter Titles Investigations Stay Current 1. The Greenhouse Effect 1.1 Light In Air1.2. Podcasts and Videos Chapter 1 2. What’s So Special About CO2? 2.1 Two Prisms2.2 IR TV Remote2.3 Molecules Absorb IR Energy2.4 Singing Piano Chapter […]
AC9C. Stay Current—Cosmos Begins… and Ends?
Staying current for Chapter 9 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } The Mysteries of the Cosmos – a panel discussion with astronomers Phil Plait, Mike Brown, Debra Fischer, Andrea Ghez, and Saul Perlmutter. Topics: newly discovered solar system objects; the black hole in our galaxy; expansion of our universe. 2024-08-09. Milky Way may escape fated collision […]
AC8C. Stay Current—Search for Habitable Planets
Staying current for Chapter 8 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2008–present NASA’s Kepler mission (to find Earth size planets in the habitable zones of stars): see also PASS Kepler page, archive of Kepler News stories, and kepler.nasa.gov (Kepler education website). For the Exoplanet Transits investigation, data to generate a light curves for various exoplanets: 2024-08-27. […]
AC7C. Stay Current—Planet-Star Systems
Staying current for Chapter 7 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } See also articles from 2008–2020. Asteroid visualization (YouTube) – an animation of the solar system showing asteroid discoveries starting in 1980. Earth Crossers are Red. Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow. All Others are Green. Articles from 2021–present 2024-08-12. Liquid water in the […]
AC6C. Stay Current—Dramatic Change in Stars
Staying current for Chapter 6 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2006–present 2024-06-28. If Betelgeuse Explodes, Just How Bright Will It Get? By RHETT ALLAIN, Wired. Excerpt: Betelgeuse, …red supergiant has dimmed repeatedly in the past few years, which could mean that it’s ready to go full supernova quite soon—and by “soon” we […]
AC5C. Stay Current—Color, Temperature & Age of Stars
Staying current for Chapter 5 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2011–present 2011-05-25. NASA’s Kepler Yields the Next Harvest: A bounty of findings delivered at the 218th Meeting of the AAS in Boston. Kepler News. Excerpt: Soeren Meibom, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is studying the stars… in the Kepler field of view. There […]
AC4C. Stay Current—Fathoming Huge Distances
Staying current for Chapter 4 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2009–present 2016-12-30. Astronomer Edwin Hubble announced the discovery of other galaxies beyond the Milky Way on this date in 1924. By Writer’s Almanac. Excerpt: …Before he made his discovery, everyone thought that our Milky Way galaxy was the only galaxy in the universe, and […]
AC3C. Stay Current—Cosmic Engines
Staying current for Chapter 3 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2005–present 2024-01-04. Mapping the Moon to Shield Astronauts from Radiation. [https://eos.org/articles/mapping-the-moon-to-shield-astronauts-from-radiation] By Sierra Bouchér, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: In October 1989, the Sun spit a blast of high-energy particles into the solar system. Earth’s protective magnetic field kept us safe, but the Moon received […]
AC2C. Stay Current—Astronomer’s Tools
Staying current for Chapter 2 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2009–present 2024-06-25. China Becomes First Country to Retrieve Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side. By Katrina Miller, The New York Times. Excerpt: China brought a capsule full of lunar soil from the far side of the moon down to Earth on Tuesday, […]
AC1C. Stay Current—Cosmic Cataclysms
Staying current for Chapter 1 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } SEE ALSO: Life & Climate Chapter 9, What Happened to the Dinosaurs? and General Astronomy Resources Articles from 2002 – present 2024-01-31. Planets around dead stars offer glimpse of the Solar System’s future—after the Sun swallows us up. [https://www.science.org/content/article/planets-around-dead-stars-offer-glimpse-solar-system-s-future-after-sun-swallows-us] By JONATHAN O’CALLAGHAN, Science. Excerpt: In […]