Series
Spaced Out
3 episodes
Just three clips here, two to three minutes each, from National Geographic Kids, and two of them are about the same instrument. What is Hubble? explains why a telescope orbiting above the atmosphere sees stars and galaxies more sharply than anything on the ground, and How Hubble Works goes a step further into the curved mirror that collects the light and how the images get beamed back to Earth. The third zooms out to the Milky Way, placing our Sun among hundreds of billions of stars in one spiral galaxy. A compact starter for an upper-elementary space unit.
What Spaced Out covers
3 episodes in the library, tagged for 3rd–6th. Heaviest coverage: Science. Between them they line up with 1 distinct standard across 1 framework.
Episodes per grade
- 3rd
- 3
- 4th
- 3
- 5th
- 3
- 6th
- 3
Episodes per subject
- Science
- 3
NGSS (Science) 1
- 5-ESS1-1Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.
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