Category: Investigations

{ A Changing Cosmos Contents } { All GSS Books } There is a myriad variety of celestial objects. Astronomers delight in describing, classifying, and naming them, but also grapple with trying to explain why they look the way they do.  Materials Part I: Browse 2.19. Using each of the files, browser1 through browser7, use and familiarize yourself […]

{ A Changing Cosmos Contents } { All GSS Books } Materials copy of CCD simulation grid colored markers tape The images from the HOU telescopes are generated using a CCD camera. This kind of camera uses an electronic chip rather than the photosensitive chemical films used by regular cameras. The electronic chip is divided […]

Chapter 2 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Astronomers are very limited in ability to actually visit and explore their objects of interest. Humans have personally visited only one other body in the cosmos other than Earth: the Moon. We have sent spacecraft to most of the planets in our own solar system and received […]

A Changing Cosmos is the latest edition of the Hands-On Universe (HOU) astronomy curriculum series. It is a  compilation in a single book as the “Best” of the seven original HOU high school curriculum books developed by TERC*. See also: Solar System Science. Contents Chapter Titles Investigations Stay Current 1. Cosmic Cataclysms 1.1 Down2Earth Crater Impact Calculator Chapter […]

{ A New World View Contents } { All GSS Books } Adapted from USGS Earthshots – http://www.usgs.gov/Earthshots Satellite images used in this Investigation show a portion of the state of Rondônia, Brazil, in which tropical deforestation has occurred in the Amazon rainforest.  In the Investigation, Measuring Old Growth Forest Loss (Chapter 3) you determined quantitatively […]

Chapter 5 { A New World View Contents } When thinking of the world as interwoven systems it’s easy to understand that places really remote from us can have rather direct effects on our daily lives. Most people in the United States don’t think of ecology in Brazil, New Guinea, or Australia as affecting them […]

{ A New World View Contents } { All GSS Books } As you’ve seen, people’s perception of trees have changed over the past 200 years.  The first white settlers saw the forests as barriers to travel; then as sources of building materials and personal wealth.  More recently, some have recognized the special role that […]

{ A New World View Contents } { All GSS Books } Life has adapted to many different kinds of environments. There are tiny plants and animals that live on frozen glaciers. Giant tube worms and other strange plants and animals live deep in the ocean, where no sunlight penetrates, but where volcanic vents provide […]

A New World View, the first of Four GSS Themes, introduces all of the other Guides in the Global Systems Science series. See Overview. Contents Chapter Titles Investigations Stay Current 1. What is Global Systems Science? 1.1. Create Your Own Ecosystem Chapter 1 2. A History of Forest Use in       the Pacific Northwest 2.1. Tree Study […]