Lesson Plan

May Earth be Revolving around the Sun?

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Ninth graders explore how Aristarchus used the position of the half-full Moon to estimate the distance to the Sun, and how he made a great error, but still figured out that the Sun is much larger than Earth.

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Grade
9th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Year
2004