NOVA: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens - Sunspot Cycle Classroom Activity

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In this activity students are asked to interpret a graph that represents the sunspot cycle from 1900 to 1990, then they are asked to graph the number of sunspots that occurred from 1995 to 2003 in order to understand the sunspot cycle. This lesson integrates Galileo's studies of the sunspot cycle.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/2912_galileo.ht...

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Astronomy - Historical Astronomy - The Sun	- Lower Undergraduate - Middle School - High School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Laboratory

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Restriction:: © 2004 WGBH Educational Foundation
Keywords:: activity, lab, observation, solar, sun, sunspots
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 30, 2004 by Patricia Monahan
Record Updated:: September 20, 2012 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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Aguirre, Lauren , ed. NOVA: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens - Sunspot Cycle Classroom Activity. 2004. 22 Apr. 2021 <https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/2912_galileo.html>.

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