Telescopes
Building Background
1. Have you ever looked through a telescope or a pair of binoculars? How did it affect your view?
Click on the app Hubble Top 100 images.
http://hubblesite.org/images/gallery
Slide through some of the pictures. Think about how they got such close up pictures of something so far away.
2.The Hubble Telescope is the largest telescope, how do you think that the telescope has changed our knowledge of space?
(pg 596)
Closure Question
3. Would it make sense to place a x-ray or gamma ray telescope on a mountaintop? Explain why or why not.
4. Go to Brainpop and watch "Telescopes", then take the quiz.
Login: marcoforster
Password: brainpop
