Form 3 Science Assignment

Hand in before or on 29 June 2009

Instruction : Carry out this assignment Using the Big6 Skills as your guide (A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Skills Instruction) - 5 Ws & 1H (What, Who, When, Where, Why, How) 1. Task Definition What do we need to do? 2. Information Seeking Strategies What can we use to find the information? 3. Location and Access Where can we find the information ? 4. Use of Information What information can we use? 5. Synthesis How can we put our information together? 6. Evaluation How will we know if we did well? Quality of the folio Present your findings in a folio. Use the contents below as your guide. Cover page for Science folio: Topic : The Universe & Space Exploration Group : Class : Teacher : Contents 1. Introduction : 1 pg for the position of earth in the universe (earth, solar system, milky way, galaxies, universe) 2 The Sun - max 3 pages Structure of the sun Characteristics of the sun Phenomena on the surface of the sun and their effects on the earth. - (Sunspots, flares, prominences) Stars - max 6 pages Defination of star -1 pg Formation of stars - 1 pg Death of stars - 1 pg (white dwarf, supernova, neutron star, blackhole, red giant, nebula) Constellation - 3pgs The Universe -max 5 pages Galaxies - Type of Galaxies (spiral,barred spiral, elliptical, irregular) The Milky Way - 1 pg Solar system - 1 pg picture Space Station - 3 - 5 pgs Hubble space telescope Reference URL

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