Warm Up * What do you already know about OUR solar system? * Get a sort envelope and match the planet with its facts. Did you know? By about 3500 BC (and maybe long before that), people thought of these moving things in the sky as living beings -gods, with their own human-like personalities. If the moon and the planets were gods, they could affect the lives of people, and so the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians began to chart the movements of the planets and the moon to try to predict the future.
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Warm Up
* What do you already know about OUR solar system? * Get a sort envelope and match the planet with its facts.
Did you know? By about 3500 BC (and maybe long before that), people thought of these moving things in the sky as living beings -gods, with their own human-like personalities. If the moon and the planets were gods, they could affect the lives of people, and so the Mesopotamians and the Egyptians began to chart the movements of the planets and the moon to try to predict the future.
Aristotle (2) - Grandfather of science - Used observation based science. - Did experiments to study scientifically.
- So respected that his wrong ideas were
taught.
Ptolemy (3)
- Astronomer and mathematician - Published ideas in books. - He developed the mathematical
formula for the geocentric model.
Heliocentric model (4)
- Sun centered universe. - Planets are in orbits around
the Sun. - Stars are distant and do not
move.
Copernicus (5)
- Brought heliocentrisim to the Renaissance - Used scientific observation. - Discovered Earth rotates on its own axis - His followers were called Copernicans
Galileo (6) - Built a telescope to prove Copernican
model correct. - Forced to admit wrong-doing by the
