MS-ESS1.A-2

Galaxy Explorer

Experience Awakening - Our open-world educational game

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LENGTH

18 Minutes

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Description

In a galaxy far, far away, an alien race builds an automated ship to explore the universe. After an accident onboard, the ship goes into hibernation until a message from a small planet called "Earth" awakens it.

Vocabulary Words

visual telescope

light waves

radio waves

radio telescope

Milky Way Galaxy

light year

spiral galaxy

elliptical galaxy

irregular galaxy

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about The Milky Way Galaxy and other Galaxies. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Types of galaxies include spiral, elliptical, and irregular.

The Milky Way galaxy is a disc-shaped, spiral galaxy.

Our Sun is located near the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, in one of the arms.

A galaxy is a group of billions of stars held together by gravity.

Some telescopes use radio waves to determine the distances and properties of objects in the universe.

The Sun is thousands of times closer to the Earth than any other star.

There are at least 100 billion galaxies in the universe.

The Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years across.

All stars that are visible in the night sky without a telescope are located in the Milky Way.

Gravity causes stars to orbit around the center of a galaxy.

A light year is a unit of measurement equal to the distance light travels through a vacuum in one year.

Some telescopes use visual light waves to determine the distances and properties of objects in the universe.

A galaxy contains stars, planets, moons, nebulae, dark matter, and black holes.

Light from distant stars may have traveled for an extremely long time before reaching Earth.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What things can you find in the solar system? What do you know about our planet? Why is the sun important to Earth?

After the Game

How did the telescope help you in the game? Why did you need two different kinds? What did you learn can be found in a galaxy? Why is the Milky Way Galaxy important to Earth? Explain what a light year is and how it is used to measure things.