On Monday students designed their own planet with a computer simulation. They learned that it's pretty hard to get a planet with all the right conditions for life to exist there. We call where Earth is the "Goldilocks Zone" - it's "just right!" We are the right distance from the sun not be too hot or too cold, we have liquid water, and we have processes that keep nutrients cycling through all of Earth's systems. It's a good place to be!On Tuesday we played a review game for their big test on Wednesday. The test covered a little bit from the last unit on redshift/blueshift stuff, but mainly focused on heavy element formation, and the requirements for life.
On Thursday we will be doing a greenhouse effect lab. Students will look at what happens to the temperature inside a glass beaker depending on what conditions they set inside it.
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