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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
All About Galileo
We finished reading Galileo's Journal 1609-1610 today. Here are some of the things we learned.
Galileo was a very smart guy and he figured out that the planets did not revolve around the Earth. All of the planets revolve around the sun. ~Jordan
Galileo was not the first one to discover the spyglass. Galileo discovered that there are four moons that revolve around Jupiter. ~ Konner
Galileo used sketches to draft what he was going to make (the telescope) and what he saw in the sky. ~Desirae
For a long time Galileo was observing the night sky. ~Rielynn
Galileo made the spyglass to look at Jupiter. He noticed how many moons there were. There were four. ~Dalton
We ask questions while we are reading and later we may use them for an inquiry project. These are some of the questions we came up with today:
- When was the Milky Way discovered? Galileo mentioned it in his journal and we want to know if he would have known about the Milky Way in 1609.
- Do people live on moons?
- How do the planets, the sun, and the moons revolve around things?
- Why do other planets have more than one moon and some do not have any?
- How do they make feather pens and when were the kind of pens that we use today invented?
- Did they celebrate New Year's in Italy in 1610 with firecrackers?
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