Boardworks GCSE Science: Physics Gravity and Space

Boardworks GCSE Science: Physics
Gravity and Space

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Teacher notes
This click and reveal activity could be used to check students’
understanding of weight and mass.
Please note that the classification of Pluto as a planet was still being
addressed at the time of publication and so it has still been included as
part of this activity.
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This two-part sequence shows how gravity affects an astronaut’s
movement on the Moon.
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Photo credit: © 2006 Jupiterimages Corporation
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Image shows astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. walking on the lunar surface
during the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969.
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Teacher notes
This multiple-choice quiz could be used as a plenary activity to assess
students’ understanding of weight and mass calculations. Class voting
or the use of coloured traffic light cards could be used to make this a
whole-class exercise.
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Photo credit: © 2006 Jupiterimages corporation
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Meteor crater in Arizona, USA. The crater is 1.2 km in diameter and
was formed between 20,000 and 50,000 years ago, when a small
asteroid (approx. 0.035 km in diameter) hit the Earth.
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Photo credit: Virgil L. Sharpton, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

A computer-generated gravity map of the Chicxulub impact crater on
the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The crater was formed about 65 million
years ago by a meteorite around 10 km in diameter. The giant tsunamis
and nuclear winter that resulted from the impact are thought to have
caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Photo credit: NASA Kennedy Space Centre (NASA-KSC)

Comet Hale-Bopp photographed in the star constellation Andromeda
on 31 March 1997. During this time period the comet made its closest
approach to the Sun.
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Teacher notes
This matching activity could be used as a plenary or revision exercise
on objects in space. Students could be asked to complete the
questions in their books and the activity could be concluded by the
completion on the IWB. Alternatively students could work individually or
in small groups, with mini-whiteboards used to convey the answers.
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Photo credit: Christopher Bruno
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Photo credit: NASA Headquarters - Greatest Images of NASA (NASA-

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Image shows a portion of the Eagle Nebula, taken on 1 April 1995 with
the Hubble Space Telescope. The column is composed of hydrogen
gas and dust. The finger-like projections at the top of the column are
larger than our solar system in size, and contain newly formed stars.
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Radio telescope owned and operated by the California Institute of
Technology in Owens Valley, California.
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Anyone with a computer can become involved with SETI by installing
special software on their computer. The software operates via a
screensaver which downloads packets of data containing radio signals
and analyses them when the computer is idle. Over five million
personal computers are used in the SETI@home project, and have
collectively donated over 19 thousand million hours of computer
processing time.
Although many scientists consider SETI to be an important process,

others believe that it is pseudoscience and that no life exists outside of
Earth.
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This voting activity enables the individual opinions of the class to be
represented graphically. It could be used at the start of a topic, then
repeated as a plenary exercise to see if the students’ opinions have
changed after learning the relevant material.
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Photo credit (top and bottom): © 2006 Jupiterimages corporation
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Photo credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)

Artists impression of a Mars Exploration Rover. In 2003 NASA sent two
rovers to Mars as part of the ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
The aim of the mission was to explore and characterize the rocks and
soils present on the Martian surface. The cost of the initial 90 day
mission alone was over US $820 million.
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HQ-GRIN)
The Voyager Golden Records are gramophone records that contain
images and sound recordings showing a diverse range of cultures on
Earth. The disks were launched in the intention that extraterrestrial life
forms or future humans will find them in the future.
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Teacher notes
This multiple-choice quiz could be used as a stimulus for either small-
group or whole-class discussion on the advantages and disadvantages
of crewed space exploration.
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This illustration, which shows a futuristic space colony in 2077, contains
several discussion points related to the future exploration and possible
colonization of space, including:
• In the foreground, there is a futuristic classroom, which is part of
‘Alpha Centuri High’, a school of the future. The student and teacher in
the middle of the classroom are wearing virtual-reality goggles to
interact with the 3D interactive whiteboard. What do the students
imagine a classroom of the future to look like?
• The student at the back of the classroom has just turned off the
gravity switch. What do the students think will happen? Why would this
type of ‘switch’ be needed?
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This citizens’ panel can be used to present a range of views on space
exploration, which could then lead into a small-group or whole-class
discussion about the subject. Further discussions could explore why
people hold the views they do.
There are no right or wrong answers for this activity.
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HQ-GRIN)
Astronaut Edward H. White floating in the zero gravity of space on 3
June 1965 . White was the first American to undertake a spacewalk,
and was tethered to the Gemini spacecraft by a 7.5 metre long cord.
The visor of his helmet is plated with gold to protect him from the Sun’s
damaging rays and he is holding a Hand Held Self Manoeuvring Unit.
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Photo credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Centre (NASA-MSFC)

An artists impression of the International Space Station in orbit,
following its deployment in November 1998. Since 2 November 2000
there has been a permanent two person crew aboard the space station.
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Teacher notes
This multiple-choice quiz could be used as a plenary activity to assess
students’ understanding of gravity and space. The questions can be
skipped through without answering by clicking “next”. Students could
be asked to complete the questions in their books and the activity could
be concluded by the completion on the IWB.
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