Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Post Plan

Hi Everyone!
This post is just a brief outline of what to expect in each following posts. Feel free to use this as a "contents page."


Post 1:

Introduction to black holes: What are they? Where do they come from? What are they made up of (anatomy).

Post 2:

What black holes do: how light and matter are absorbed and bent
Prac and Discussion: How light is bent around black holes. Using mattress, bowling balls and marbles.

Post 3:

Introduction to Nebulae: What are they? Where do they come from? What are they made of? Types of Nebulae

Post 4:

Stars life cycle: The different stages (diagrams, gif, video). What causes the different stages? What happens in each stage?

Post 5:

Stars: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, eclipsing binary stars, pulsating variable stars, double star supernovas, parallax (experiment)

Post 6:

Other Solar systems: Wobbling stars, defining AU, chart showing some other planetary systems showing AU from star and planet size, deep space probes,

Post 7:

Galaxies and Star Clusters: difference between star clusters and galaxies, types of galaxies (project: swirling paper dots to show spiral galaxies), the Milky Way, the local group.

Post 8:

The Universe and how it is expanding: History of the universe (brief big bang explanation), experiment.

Post 9:

Quiz on everything learnt in the blog duration. (link to quiz and description). The quiz will be created by myself on another site.


There are separate posts for the Bibliography and the Glossary. Each post, at the end will have a few research questions in order to expand on what the topic was in each post.



Thank you and enjoy :)

Emily.

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