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Home: Earth from an Astronomical Perspective
Earth in Space. Just another planet?
Created byTony Ceraso
Last updated 1/2025
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What you'll learn
- The Earth is our home. How many of us can live here? How unique is the Earth in all the solar system? Investigate what the universe looks like from the surface of the Earth and why we divided our planet up into hemispheres, time zones, longitude and latitude. Find out how we took our first steps into orbit around this big blue marble we call the Earth and what it taught us about our own planet – Home.
- Humanity's unique place on Earth
- The Earth and it's Water
- Human's and their Earth
- How many people can the Earth sustain?
- The future of humans on Earth
- Types of satellites and their functions in orbit around the Earth
- Types of orbits: Low-Earth Orbit, Medium-Earth Orbit, High Earth Orbit
- How one goes about actually orbiting the Earth
- The Earth's first astronauts
- A human life in orbit around the Earth
- Pictures of the Earth from other planets in the solar system
- The International Space Station
- Habitable and inhabitable places on the Earth
- Space's hostility to Earth's humans
- Earth's signals to the cosmos
- The Earth and its Moon
- What's a barycenter and why is it important?
- How the Earth does seasons
- The Earth's Hemispheres
- The Equator, the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn and why you might care
- The Prime Meridian and time on the planet
- Where are you? Longitude and Latitude
- The Planet's Axis and Precession
- What the heck is an Analemma?
- Comparing the Earth to other planets in the solar system
- Earth: What's it made of?
- The Earth's magnetic field and function and why we are happy we have it
- Solar wind, ionized gasses and the aurora
- Test Questions, Answers and Activities
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Course content
10 sections • 11 lectures • 2h 9m total length
Requirements
- None
Description
The Earth is our home. How many of us can live here? How unique is the Earth in all the solar system? Investigate what the universe looks like from the surface of the Earth and why we divided our planet up into hemispheres, time zones, longitude and latitude. Find out how we took our first steps into orbit around this big blue marble we call the Earth and what it taught us about our own planet – Home.
This Course includes the following great BONUS LESSONS:
What on Earth is Astronomy?
Mini-Lesson: Eclipses
Mini-Lesson: Meteor Showers
Mini-Lesson: Aurora
Project Artemis: America Returns to the Moon
Home
1. Objective
2. Warm-up activity
3. Humanity’s unique place on Earth
4. The Earth and water
5. The Earth and the human population
6. Discussion of how many people the Earth can sustain
7. The future of humans on Earth
8. Satellites and their functions in orbit around the Earth
9. Types of orbits, including what an orbit is
10. GPS satellites
11. How an orbit is achieved
12. Low-Earth orbit
13. Medium-Earth orbit
14. High-Earth orbit
15. The Earth’s atmosphere
16. Humanity’s first astronauts
17. Life in orbit
18. Pictures of Earth from other planets in the Solar System
19. The International Space Station
20. Areas of Earth that are habitable and uninhabitable
21. The hostility of space to life as we know it
22. Earth’s signals to the galaxy
23. The Earth and Moon’s interaction
24. The concept of a barycenter
25. Explanation for the Earth’s seasons
26. The Earth’s Hemispheres
27. The Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
28. The prime meridian and time on Earth
29. Longitude and latitude
30. The Earth’s axis and precession
31. What the heck is an Analemma?
32. Compare and contrast Earth’s size with other planets in the Solar System
33. The Earth’s composition and core
34. The Earth’s magnetic field and its function
35. Solar wind, ionized gasses and the aurora
36. Test questions
37. Cross-curricular activities
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in Astronomy