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What is Earth's place in the universe? - Coggle Diagram
What is Earth's place in the universe?
Stars
Stars clumped together because of accretion. The stuff that clumped together was a lot of left-over dust and particles from the big bang. Stars are made of mostly hydrogen and helium, and that stuff formed from the big bang.
There were thousands of projects at nationals. Only one of these projects could win in their category. The projects that didn't win are like the leftover dust and elements from the big bang, and the projects that won are like the stars that formed out of the other projects.
Stars are made up of dust and elements that formed from the Big Bang.
These are the groups from Waverly that all competed with different projects. There were many other projects that also competed.
Big bang
The singularity is like the beginning of my trip to San Diego. My trip started when the plane took off from the airport, and that is when the singularity expanded. My trip got better and better as the first few days went by and that is like the singularity expanding.
The universe formed when a singularity expanded, and when it got cool enough, the first form of matter started to exist.
This is a picture of me in San Deigo, right outside the airport. It marks the beginning of my trip.
13.8 billion years ago a singularity expanded and formed the universe. When this happened, the universe started, and time, space, and energy. The first form of matter started to exist once the universe had cooled off enough from the big bang.
Solar system
Earth is closer to the sun than Neptune, and earth is a rocky planet, while Neptune is a gas planet. Heavier things get pulled more by gravity, so the rocky planets got pulled closer to the sun because they are heavier than the gas giants. The gas planets are a lot lighter so they floated further away because they had a lot less gravitational for from the sun.
Our week was organized like the solar system. The days where we had a lot of activities/presentations were closer to the beginning of the week and the days with nothing to do were towards the end. We had everyone's presentations on the first two days when the whole group was in San Diego, and we had a lot of free time on the last 3 days.
Rocky planets are closer to the sun, and gas giants are further away.
This is a picture of the schedule for the time I was in San Diego. You can see that there was a lot of stuff during the first few days of the trip, but not as much during the last days.
Space
Claim: The big bang was the start of the universe, and leftover particles from the Big Bang formed stars and planets. Planets can rotate around these stars. The rockier planets are closer to the sun, and gas giants are further away.
Connection: My nationals trip with FCCLA this summer is like the big bang because my trip kept getting better. It is like stars because there were so many different projects brought to nationals. And it is like the solar system because of the way it was organized.
This is my group that competed at nationals. We made a table. If it wasn't for this group I would have never been able to experience San Diego.
Conclusion: The best thing I learned about space was the lifecycle of stars. I didn't know that much about space before we did this unit, but now I know how the earth formed, how stars live and die, and why our solar system is organized the way it is. My FCCLA trip is like space because of the way it was organized and all of the things we did during the trip. Space can be just like a lot of things and you may not even know it.
Resources
LIfe of Stars - Stellar Nebula
The Sun & the Earth: Crash Course Big History #3
Star dance
Gravity Visualized
Life of stars
Active Accretion - definitions
Bang! The universe verse book 1
FCCLA Notebook
Listening to the Big Bang
Waverly Newspaper
Page 10 questions - what happened
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