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From Dust Grains to Dust Balls
In this formation of planets worksheet, students solve 6 problems including finding the equation for the mass of rocks as a function of time, finding the equation for the rate of growth of the mass of rocks and integrating these equations.
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The Milky Way: A Mere Cloud in the Cosmos
In this galaxy learning exercise, students calculate the volume of the Milky Way Galaxy, they determine the total mass, the density and the volume of the Milky Way Galaxy. They also solve 2 problems about the volume and size of the...
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The Moon's Atmosphere
In this moon's atmosphere worksheet, students read about the tenuous lunar atmosphere and solve 4 problems. They find the density of helium particles, they find the grams of given atoms in the moon's atmosphere and they find the volume...
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Solutions
In this solutions worksheet, students solve twelve problems including calculating products made in reactions, determining limiting reagents, calculating molarity of solutions, determining percent composition, and finding volumes and...
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Hinode Studies Loopy Sunspots!
In this sunspots and magnetic fields worksheet, students read about the satellite images taken showing 'loopy' patterns from solar gases and the magnetic fields on the sun. Students solve 2 problems including finding the volume of a...
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Counting Craters on the Hubble Space Telescope!
In this Hubble Space Telescope worksheet, students are given a photograph of the radiator recovered after being in space on the Hubble Space Telescope since 1993. Students solve 6 problems about the impacts that left craters on the...
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The Io Plasma Torus
In this plasma torus worksheet, students solve 5 problems including finding the dimensions of the Io torus, determining the formula for the volume of a torus, finding the actual volume of the Ion torus and finding the amount of sodium...
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How Many Quasars Are There?
In this quasars learning exercise, students read about how astronomers can detect quasars by their luminosity. Students use a given equation to solve 4 problems including finding quasar magnitude, determining the number of quasars with...
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Hubble Spies Colliding Asteroids!
In this colliding asteroids instructional activity, students are given the equation to determine the collision time for asteroids. Students use this equation to solve 4 problems including finding the area of a cross-section through the...
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Space Math Differentiation-"Ch..Ch..Ch..Changes"
In this differentiation in space math worksheet, students use 6 different equations to solve 6 problems that involve differentiation related to astrophysics.
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Spitzer Explores a Dying Star
For this dying star worksheet, high schoolers read about the Spitzer Space Telescope that detected the dying star-Messier-57. Students solve 6 problems including determining the total power produced by the dying star, they find the total...
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Super-Fast Solar Flares!
In this solar flares learning exercise, students observe a sequence of figures of a solar flare observed in 2003 from the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager satellite. Students solve 6 problems including finding the scale of...
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XZ Tauri and The Super CME!
In this XZ Tauri and coronal mass ejections learning exercise, students use 3 photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to solve 4 problems. They find the scale of the images, they determine the number of kilometers the XZ Tauri...
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Black Hole Power...X
In this power of black holes worksheet, high schoolers solve 6 problems including finding the surface area of a black hole, determining the amount of matter in the black hole shell, finding the rest mass energy and determining the time...
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Introduction to Radiation Shielding
In this radiation shielding activity, students use a graph of the dosage of radiation versus the thickness of aluminum shielding using data from the MIR spacecraft and ISO satellite to solve 3 problems. They determine how thick the walls...
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Spitzer Explores a Dusty Young Star
In this stars learning exercise, students read about the Spitzer space telescope and they solve 5 problems about the mass, size, and power of dust grains and interstellar mediums detected by the telescope.
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Water on the Moon!
For this moon worksheet, students read about the data collected from the Deep Impact/EPOXI and Cassini missions to the moon that have detected the presence of hydroxyl molecules under the moon's polar craters. Students solve 4 problems...
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Lunar Crater Frequency Distributions
In this lunar crater frequency worksheet, students use the power-law function to solve 3 problems related to the number of craters in a given area. They integrate the power-law function to determine their answers.
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Rate Laws Quiz
In this rate laws worksheet, students solve four problems. They determine rates of reactions, they determine which rate laws is used, they determine the overall reaction order and they identify the rate of appearance and disappearance of...
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Honors Chemistry Gas Laws Worksheet
In this gas worksheet, students solve eighteen problems using a variety of gas laws. They find temperatures, pressures, partial pressures, moles, molecular formulas and volumes of gases.
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Are U Nuts?
In this conversion worksheet, students solve 9 problems where they convert from one unit of measurement to another using a given table with conversion factors.
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IB Chemistry 1
In this chemistry overview worksheet, students compare atoms and molecules, intensive and extensive property, and physical and chemical change. This worksheet has 12 short answer questions and 3 problems to solve.
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School Bus Routes
Plan the way to school. Given a map of a school district, class members portray a transportation consultant hired to develop a bus transportation plan that will pick up the eligible riders and get them to school. The plan must contain...
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Units of Measure
In this identifying units of measure activity, students estimate the volume of their bodies using the bath method and component method, estimate the density of their bodies and use a conversion sheet to convert metric measurements....