Sky Surveys
Correlations to Project 2061 Benchmarks in Science Education
The Project 2061 Benchmarks in Science Education is a report,
originally published in 1993 by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), that listed what students should know about
scientific literacy. The report listed facts and concepts about science
and the scientific process that all students should know at different
grade levels.
The report is divided and subdivided into different content areas.
Within each subarea, the report lists benchmarks for students completing
grade 2, grade 5, grade 8, and grade 12.
The Sky Surveys project meets the following objectives in the Project 2061
Benchmarks:
IC8-6, IIIA5-2, IIIA8-2, IVA12-3, IVF8-1, IVF12-3.
Benchmarks
IC8-6. Computers have
become invaluable in science because they speed up and extend people's
ability to collect, store, compile, and analyze data, prepare research
reports, and share data and ideas with investigators all over the
world.
IIIA5-2. Technology enables
scientists and others to observe things that are too small or too far
away to be seen without them and to study the motion of objects that
are moving very rapidly or are hardly moving at all.
IIIA8-2. Technology is
essential to science for such purposes as access to outer space and
other remote locations, sample collection and treatment, measurement,
data collection and storage, computation, and communication of
information.
IVA12-3. Increasingly
sophisticated technology is used to learn about the universe. Visual,
radio, and x-ray telescopes collect information from across the entire
spectrum of electromagnetic waves; computers handle an avalanche of
data and increasingly complicated computations to interpret them;
space probes send back data and materials from the remote parts of the
solar system; and accelerators give subatomic particles energies that
simulate conditions in the stars and in the early history of the
universe before stars formed.
IVF8-1. Human eyes
respond to only a narrow range of wavelengths of electromagnetic
radiation—visible light. Differences of wavelength within that range
are perceived as differences in color.
IVF12-3. Accelerating
electric charges produce electromagnetic waves around them. A great
variety of radiations are electromagnetic waves: radio waves,
microwaves, radiant heat, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, x
rays, and gamma rays. These wavelengths vary from radio waves, the
longest, to gamma rays, the shortest. In empty space, all
electromagnetic waves move at the same speed—the "speed of light."
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