Changing Views of Earth

"This weekend's forecast may provide the main _______ 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

• Belief that everything orbited the Earth

• Earth orbits...

• The Sun

• Galileo

• Belief that everything orbited the Sun

• Geocentric Model

• Believed the Sun did not orbit the Earth

• Heliocentric Model

• Used a telescope to view space better

• Copernicus

Reorder the following the sentence from pg 13

• humans based their

• Long ago,

• knowledge on what

• their eyes and ears.

• they experienced with

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

Sort based on information from page 13

Groups:

(a) Geocentric View

,

(b) Heliocentric View

• "radical new model"

• Belief that Earth stayed with place

• Sun orbits the Earth

• Did not use telescopes to gain knowledge

• Old way of thinking

• 
• Earth orbits the Sun

• 
• Belief that the Sun stayed in place.

• 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.