Teachers Eating Pizza: Planetary Cores and Seismic Activity
Pair up your favorite slice with some space science! Each month, educators can experience a new Earth and Space Science activity, a live planetarium show and stargazing on the first Wednesday of each month.
This workshop is for K-12 teachers, informal educators, after-school program providers, pre-service teachers and the university community.
September 4, 2019:
- Workshop theme: Planetary Cores and Seismic Activity
What can we learn about Earth's core without visiting it? Quite a bit! Using hands-on activities, models, USGS resources and NASA data, we will analyze the inside of an object before translating that knowledge to cores of moons and planets in our Solar System.
Areas covered: seismic activity, waves, Earth's processes, planning and carrying out investigations, developing and using models.
- Planetarium theme: Neutron Stars, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
How can a star be made out of neutrons? Black holes are often thought to be cosmic vacuum cleaners, but do they really suck up everything around them? This month’s shows focuses on these stellar remnants and how we can directly observe them via gravitational waves.
5 p.m.
Teachers Eating Pizza: Planetary Cores and Seismic Activity
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