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WorksheetsBig History Unit 1
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 2mins
A perspective of big to small or small to big
condition
scale
ingredients
complex threshols
Why are thresholds complex?
New ways of analyzing the universe.
Understanding all of history is complex.
Something becomes so different it cannot return to what it once was.
they are special moments in time.
How old is the universe to our best guess?
1.4 million years old
4.5 billion years old
100 ^5 years old
13.6 billion years old
50 billion years old.
Ingredients relate to thresholds by......
joining together to make something new at just the right moment.
making chocolate chip cookies in the scale of time.
By taking away it's parts and going backwards in time.
they are the origin story to big history.
Scientists working together to analyze a history mystery:
Shows how Big History needs many experts to understand mysteries.
That there is one person who clearly has the answers.
One needs a big scale to solve mysteries.
Conditions have to be perfect to solve mysteries.
Claims testing involves using information to make an informed decision including:
scientific errors and gut instinct.
limited resources and limited data
A variety of evidence and well-trusted perspectives.
emotional responses such as feelings.
Big History's Creation Story involves:
humans on Earth fighting for rights.
a cultural perspective with dance and song.
a scientific story of the universe based on the Big Bang!
sky, earth, stars and trees coming together.
