Evolution of the Universe

1. Evolution of the Universe Școala Gimnazială Pui (Secondary School Pui) ROMANIA

2. ~ Școala Gimnazială Pui ~ Romania • Meet the Team • Costea Isabela - 7 A • Costa Maria - 8 B • Bârc Robert - 5 A • Bucur Rareș - 6 A • Bălușă Adrian - 6 A • Meliță Raul - 5 A • Groza Darius - 5 A • Călian Călin - 7 B • Stoica Vlad - 8 C • Ceuță Cătălin - 5 A • Matei Dan - coordinating teacher

3. In the project ,, Evolution of the Universe " the group of 10 students from Scoala Gimnaziala Pui organized for seven weeks to 25 classes of students, special workshops. The purpose of these workshops was to stimulate young people's creativity, to familiarize students with astronomy concepts and to inform students about the development of astronomical phenomena. Workshop – uri: • Verification Predictions; • Planetarium from the cereal box; • Collision of a meteorite with the Earth's natural satellite - Moon; • Simulating conditions on the Moon and Earth; • Conquest of cosmic space and its implications; • How do chemical links work?; • Visit to Mars using the WorldWide Telescope; • PowerPoint presentations - Space missions - Planck and Rosetta!; • SF reading - preparations for Astronomy Day; • Black Holes!; • Earth-Moon-Sun system:Phases and eclipses; • Sun-Earth-Moon system,with a special focus on distances; • Measuring the Sun's diameter; • Simulation of the Sun Eclipse; • Simulation of the Moon's Eclipse; • Manufacture of radio waves; • The universe in a balloon! The Hubble Law; • Doppler effect!.

4. Preparations for school exhibition

5. Birth of the Universe – drawing by the student Costa Maria ( 15 year old)

6. Preparations for school exhibition

7. Planck Space Observatory

8. Workshop activitiesPlanck Space Observatory Rosetta

9. Workshop activities

10. Workshop activities

11. Workshop activities

12. Workshop activities What is ared giant star?

13. Inauguration of the exhibition

14. Inauguration of the exhibition

15. Inauguration of the exhibition

16. Inauguration of the exhibition Birth of the Universe – drawing by the student Costa Maria ( 15 year old)

17. Predictions, Verification: The tablecloth 4 – 8 may

18. 4 – 8 may Predictions, Verification: The tablecloth Prediction: If you quickly pull a tablecloth, what's on the table will fall. If we check, the prediction is met.The experiment works because physics is a discipline that allows to predict what will happen: if we draw quickly a tablecloth, there is no time for friction forces to act on objects on the table, and this explains why they fall. Physics developed on earth is the same as that applied by astronomers to the Universe.

19. Planetarium from the cereal box! Model of a star group - Big Car – Polar Star - Casiopeea 4 – 8 may

20. 4 – 8 mayPlanetarium from the cereal box! Model of a star group - Big Car - Star Polar - Casiopeea

21. Planetarium from the cereal box! Model of a star group - Big Car - Star Polar - Casiopeea

22. Outdoor Experiment - Collision of a meteorite with Earth's natural satellite - Moon 11 – 15 may

23. Outdoor Experiment - Collision of a meteorite with Earth's natural satellite - Moon

24. The size and speed of asteroids influence the size of the Moon craters.

25. SF reading - preparations for Astronomy Day 11 – 15 may

26. The Ministry of National Education marks each year the Astronomy Day by organizing an online contest for young people from all over Romania. The activity consisted in making a video clip for a maximum of 5 minutes in which students would present an astronomy book they liked. The video must reach the following points: the author's presentation; Presentation of the book itself; Mentioning some discoveries in the field in the years after the book's appearance; Motivating your personal decision to choose this book; Personal opinion about the influence of the book and the author at students who like astronomy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDfjsj7ZlKc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPtMq9u1IfA&feature=youtu.be

27. SF reading - preparations for Astronomy Day1st Prize "Little Astronomer" student Adrian Alexandru Băluşe, 14 years old – Scoala Gimnaziala Pui https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLm9C5N29T4&feature=youtu.be

28. Simulating conditions on the Moon and on Earth. 11 – 15 may

29. Simulating conditions on the Moon. In contrast toof Earth, the Moon has no erosion. A trace of shoe on surface of the Moon could be visible for millions of years!

30. Conquest of Space 18 – 22 may

31. Conquest of Space The students learned about the theory of relativity, gravity, the formation of the Universe, black holes ...... about Newton, Einstein and Hawking's personality, importance and discoveries in physics and cosmology in particular.

32. Single and multiple covalent bonds 18 – 22 may

33. Single and multiple covalent bonds

34. Visit to Mars with the WorldWide Telescope 25 – 29 may

35. Visit to Mars with the WorldWide Telescopehttp://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Interact/PlanetExplorer 25 – 29 may

36. PowerPoint presentations - Space missions - Planck and Rosetta 25 – 29 may

37. PowerPoint presentations Space missions - Planck and Rosetta

38. The Black Holes! 1 – 5 june

39. Many children have heard of black holes ... ..if something falls into a black hole, it's impossible for her to escape, even light!These objects are mysterious and interesting, but they are not easytoexplain.This activity helped students to understand the space-time and gravity concepts that are integral to their understanding.

40. Measuring the Sun's Diameter - The dark room 1 – 5 june

41. Cover the end of the plastic tube with a semi-transparent paper millimeter and at the other end with a piece of resistant paper, in which we make a central hole with a thin needle. We must point the end of the tube with the small hole to the Sun and look at the other end, which is covered with millimeter paper. We measure the diameter d of the Sun image on this millimeter paper. Measuring the Sun's Diameter - The Dark Room

42. Total solar eclipse experience 8 – 12 june

43. The small-scale model is placed so that the sphere representing the Moon is pointing to the Sun and the shadow created by the Moon is projected onto the sphere representing the Earth.Through this method, the eclipse of the Sun is reproduced and a small dark spot will appear above a region on Earth.

44. Total moon eclipse experience 8 – 12 june

45. The small-scale model is placedso that the sphere representing the Earth is directed toward the Sun and as a result the Earth's shadow covers the Moon because it is larger than the Moon. This is an easy way to reproduce a moon eclipse.

46. Production of radio waves 8 – 12 june

47. Radio waves can go through any obstacles, even through the walls! To do this, I typed two pieces of wire to a 9 volt battery. A sharp pencil was used at both ends and pencil graphite as a source of radio radiation. The radio starts in AM band (not FM). With the pencil, touch the thread several times.Change the radio frequency until it sounds on the radio how to touch the wire!

48. The universe in a balloon! The Hubble Law. 15 – 19 june

49. In 1930, Edwin Hubble realized that the farthest galaxies are moving away faster. The balloon is the universe, the white points being the galaxies. During the experiment, the distance between galaxies increases with expansion, galaxies do not move on the balloon. Thus, galaxies do not move through space: the space is the one that expands, pulling the galaxies.

50. Doppler effect! 15 – 19 june