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

• Belief that everything orbited the Earth

• Earth orbits...

• Believed the Sun did not orbit the Earth

• Geocentric Model

• Belief that everything orbited the Sun

• Galileo

• The Sun

• Heliocentric Model

• Used a telescope to view space better

• Copernicus

Reorder the following the sentence from pg 13

• humans based their

• Long ago,

• they experienced with

• their eyes and ears.

• knowledge on what

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

(a)  

Sort based on information from page 13

Groups:

(a) Geocentric View

,

(b) Heliocentric View

• Used telescopes to gain knowledge

• Sun orbits the Earth

• Earth orbits the Sun

• 
• Belief that Earth stayed with place

• Old way of thinking

• 
• "radical new model"

• Did not use telescopes to gain knowledge

• Belief that the Sun stayed in place.

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.