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Space
How do we measure a universe we can't visit?
Start with the sky's cycles and climb to orbits and rockets.
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Sky Cycles: Day, Month, Year
Sketch the Moon each night on a calendar and count the days until it looks the same again
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Powers of Ten and Scale
Stack ten flats of 100 blocks into a cube and write it as 10³
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Measuring Cosmic Distance
Hold your thumb out and watch it jump against the wall as you wink each eye
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Gravity and the Inverse Square
Work out how hard Earth pulls on a space station 400 km up
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Orbits and Kepler's Laws
Work out how long a year on Mars lasts from its distance to the Sun
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Rocket Math and Escape Velocity
You account for the mass a rocket carries before and after a burn.
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Black Holes and Gravitational Collapse
You compare classical predictions, observed signals and quantum models, then frame a question that could distinguish them.
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