Monday, October 21, 2019
Cosmos Episode 11 Viewing Worksheet
Cosmos Episode 11 Viewing Worksheet à Its movie day! Those are words almost all students like to hear when they enter their classrooms. Many times, theseà movie or video daysà are used as a reward for students. However, they can also be used to supplement a lesson or topic they are learning about in class.à There are many great science-related movies and videos available for teachers, but one that is entertaining and has great and accessible explanations of science is the Fox seriesà ââ¬â¹Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Below is a set of questions that can be copy and pasted into a worksheet for students to fill out as they view Cosmos episode 11. It can also be used as a quiz after the video is shown. Feel free to copy and it and tweak it as necessary. à Cosmos Episode 11 Worksheetà à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à à Name:______________ à Directions: Answer the questions as you watch episode 11 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey entitled, ââ¬Å"The Immortalsâ⬠. à 1.à How does Neil deGrasse Tyson say our ancestors marked the passage of time? à 2.à Where was civilization, including written language, born? à 3.à Enheduanna is considered to be the first person to do what? à 4.à What is the name of Enheduannaââ¬â¢s poem that an excerpt is read from? à 5.à What is the name of the hero in the story of the great flood? à 6.à How many years before the Bible was written was this account of the great flood? à 7.à In what form does everyone carry the message of life in their bodies? à 8.à What kind of molecules may have gotten together in the sunlit pools of water to form the first life? à 9.à Where, underwater, could the first life have formed? à 10.à How could the first life have ââ¬Å"hitchhikedâ⬠to Earth? à 11.à What was the name of the village near Alexandria, Egypt where the meteor hit in 1911? à 12.à Where was the meteorite that hit Egypt originally from? à 13.à How can meteorites be ââ¬Å"interplanetary arksâ⬠? à 14.à How could life on Earth have survived the large number of asteroid and meteor strikes early in its life history? à 15.à How does Neil deGrasse Tyson say a dandelion is like an ark? à 16.à How could life travel to very distant planets in outer space? à 17.à What year did we first announce our presence to the galaxy? à 18.à What was the name of the project that had radio waves bouncing off the Moon? à 19.à How long does it take a radio wave sent from Earth to make it to the Moonââ¬â¢s surface? à 20.à How many miles do Earthââ¬â¢s radio waves travel in one year? à 21.à What year did we begin listening with radio telescopes for messages from life on other planets? à 22.à Give one possible thing we could be doing wrong when listening for messages from life on other planets. à 23.à What are two reasons Mesopotamia is now a wasteland instead of a thriving civilization? à 24.à What did the people of Mesopotamia think caused the great drought in 2200 BC? à 25.à What great civilization would be wiped out in Central America 3000 years later when another abrupt climate change happened? à 26.à Where was the last supervolcano eruption and how long ago did it happen? à 27.à What was the secret weapon the Europeans brought with them that helped defeat the American Natives? à 28.à What is the main problem with our current economic systems from when they were made? à 29.à What does Neil deGrasse Tyson say is a good measure of intelligence? à 30.à What is the greatest hallmark of the human species? à 31.à What state does Neil deGrasse Tyson compare giant elliptical galaxies to? à 32.à When, on the new year of the Cosmic Calendar, does Neil deGrasse Tyson predict humans will learn to share our tiny planet?
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