Changing Views of Earth

"This weekend's forecast may provide the main (a)   for planning outdoor activities."

pg 13

According to the article, no matter where on Earth you go, what do people like to talk about?

pg 13

• how funny Mr. Drey is

• the weather

• sports

• Space Shuttles

Which paragraph talks about a new tool which helped scientists learn more about Space?

Match the following

pg 13

• Believed the Sun did not orbit the Earth

• Heliocentric Model

• The Sun

• Galileo

• Belief that everything orbited the Sun

• Earth orbits...

• Used a telescope to view space better

• Geocentric Model

• Belief that everything orbited the Earth

• Copernicus

Reorder the following the sentence from pg 13

• their eyes and ears.

• knowledge on what

• humans based their

• Long ago,

• they experienced with

3D circles (baseballs, globes, basketballs) = ​

(a)  

Sort based on information from page 13

Groups:

(a) Geocentric View

,

(b) Heliocentric View

• "radical new model"

• Belief that the Sun stayed in place.

• Earth orbits the Sun

• 
• Did not use telescopes to gain knowledge

• Belief that Earth stayed with place

• Old way of thinking

• Sun orbits the Earth

• 
• Used telescopes to gain knowledge

label

pg 13

a

b

geocentric model

heliocentric model

Fill in the blank:

In the early 1600s, an Italian named Galileo pointed a new tool called the _______________ toward the night sky.

• Sphere

• Telescope

• Orbit

• Kite

According to the text, Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model that proposed that:

• The Sun orbits the Earth.

• The Earth orbits the Sun.