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The department of Biology and Geology at your school is asking students for help to choose a new telescope for your school. Are you ready to help?
Form groups of five students to look for different telescopes and choose the best option.
The telescope for your school must have these characteristics:
I will know
Did you know that the Italian mathematician Galileo was the first person to use a telescope to observe the sky in 1610?
Before you start looking for telescopes, you should know a bit more about them.
Find out how our knowledge of the structure and history of the universe has increased since Galileo.
Galileo
Sputnik
Gagarin
Neil Amstrong
Voyager I
Hubble telescope
There are many different types of telescopes. For example, radio telescopes are large parabolic antennas located on the ground and space telescopes are devices that orbit around the Earth to observe very distant objects.
Compare the Hubble Space Telescope, a radio telescope on the ground and a telescope for personal use. Make a list with their main characteristics and differences.
Galileo lived in the 15th century.
Galileo was the first person to use a telescope.
Telescopes can be based on Earth and in space.
The Hubble is an Earth-based radio telescope.
The Hubble Space Telescope allows us to know about distant space.
Follow these steps:
As a class, present your different proposals.
Debate and choose the best option.
Galileo invented the telescope in 1610.
In present times, artificial satellites collect images of the Earth all the time.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go into space, in 1961.
The members of the Apollo XI mission became the first people to land on the Moon, in 1969.
Summary. Space exploration
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