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

• The Sun

• Geocentric Model

• Used a telescope to view space better

• Earth orbits...

• Belief that everything orbited the Earth

• Copernicus

• Believed the Sun did not orbit the Earth

• Galileo

• Belief that everything orbited the Sun

• Heliocentric Model

Reorder the following the sentence from pg 13

• humans based their

• knowledge on what

• they experienced with

• Long ago,

• their eyes and ears.

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

(a)  

Sort based on information from page 13

Groups:

(a) Geocentric View

,

(b) Heliocentric View

• 
• Did not use telescopes to gain knowledge

• Old way of thinking

• 
• Sun orbits the Earth

• "radical new model"

• Used telescopes to gain knowledge

• Belief that Earth stayed with place

• Belief that the Sun stayed in place.

• Earth orbits the Sun

label

pg 13

a

b

heliocentric model

geocentric 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.