Crosscutting ConceptsCrosscutting Concepts Addressed by the Exoplanet Atmospheres Digi Kit
1) Patterns, Grades 9-12: Empirical evidence is needed to identify patterns.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
2) Scale, Proportion, and Quantity Grades 9-12: Algebraic thinking is used to examine scientific data and predict the effect of a change in one variable on another.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
1) Patterns, Grades 9-12: Empirical evidence is needed to identify patterns.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
- NASA-SSEC Lecture Tutorial: Determining the Atmospheric Composition of Exoplanets
- NASA TESS Exoplanet Mission
- HARPS: High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher
- Exoplanet.eu -- Exoplanet Catalog
- Planetary Society: Transit Photometry
- Spectroscopy of Exoplanets by Michael Richmond
2) Scale, Proportion, and Quantity Grades 9-12: Algebraic thinking is used to examine scientific data and predict the effect of a change in one variable on another.
Activities correlating to this Crosscutting Concept:
- NASA-SSEC Lecture Tutorial: Determining the Atmospheric Composition of Exoplanets
- Open Source Physics: Transit Method Simulation
- European Space Observatory: Exoplanet Time-Lapse
- HARPS: High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher
- Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project: Extrasolar Planets Lab
- Build It Yourself Satellite Game
- Spectralcalc: Blackbody Calculator
- University of Virginia Modern Physics: Blackbody Radiation