PES 1.1 Notes

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Do you know how to use formative to do your assignments? Yes, No, or Maybe, explain.

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Why do you think the pyramids in Teotihuacán, Mexico and the sun were important to the people who built them?

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Stonehenge is a huge stone monument in England built more than 4,000 years ago. Once a year, on the longest day of the year, the sun lines up perfectly with the stones during sunset.

Why do you think this happens only once per year?

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What is a star? What do you know about stars?

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How is this different from your definition of a star from the warm up (Question 3)?

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The sun is a star.

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Which of the following is a question that an astronomer might try to answer?

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Summarize: in your own words, what is the museum asking us to figure out?

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Carefully examine the artifact. Then, write down your observations below. What do you see? What do you notice?

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Why do you think there are different stars in each nighttime section of the artifact?

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Why does the daytime section of th artifact show only the sun, but not the other stars?