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May 31, 2011

Black Holes

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Today we will be studying Black Holes by using the following website:

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/home.html

You will create an 8 page Keynote presentation or an 8 square comic about black holes.

Here are the slides or squares you need to create.  Each one must have an image as well as text.  Use Command-Shift-4 and drag over the image to take a screenshot of it.  The picture will appear on your desktop.  Just drag it into Keynote or Comic Life.

Slide 1: Title
Slide 2: What is a Black Hole?  Provide a picture and an answer that has the question in it: A Black Hole is …
Slide 3: Find three objects in the sky that have black holes.  List them, include a picture of a black hole.  Your next three slides will be about these three objects.
Slide 4: Create a page/square about the first of the objects that has a black hole in it.  What is it called and what is it?
Slide 5 Create a page/square about another of the objects that has a black hole in it.  What is it calles and what is it?
Slide 6: Create a page/square about the third object that has a black hole in it.  What is it called and what is it?
Click Take a Journey by clicking “Begin Your Voyage” on the bottom right and go to Cygnus X-1.
Slide 7: What is Cygnus X-1 and What kind of light does it shine brightly in?
Slide 8: Get up close to Cygnus X-1 and explain what it looks like and why.

Put your finished keynote/comic file in the BLACK HOLES HERE folder on the server.

 

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