Science lab

Lab instructions

Phase I—You're using www.heavens-above.com again for this lab. Follow the instructions in questions 1 through 8, and enter your answers directly in the Word document.

Phase II—You will now use the site to answer some questions and then analyze a provided generalization based on your evidence.

Phase III—You are given some data collected from the site, and asked to come up with a conclusion based on that data (in other words, an evidence-based conclusion). Make sure that you mention the specific pieces of data that you are using for evidence.

Phase IV—In this phase, you are given a research question and asked to come up with a step-by-step method of collecting the evidence needed to answer this question. You do not need to do the whole data collection process, but you do need to explain what someone would need to do (again, further instructions are in the lab document). Use the Heavens-Above.com site, which means you shouldn't write out a procedure for answering this question using real-world observations. Write it so that someone else could follow your step-by-step procedure to successfully collect the needed data.

Phase V—Now, based on what you have done in the first four phases, you will come up with your own answerable research question that can be answered using the Heavens Above (or similar) site. Don't worry, the question does not need to be complex or sophisticated, but it does need to be answerable, by you, using this website. You will write your question, the procedure to collect the evidence (like in phase IV), collect the data (use the data table phase III as a rough guide), and come to an evidence-based conclusion (like you did in phase III).

Phase VI—Finally, you will write a short (50-word) summary (details in the lab document). This should not be information from your textbook or other sources.

Lastly, upload your completed lab document to the assignments area (remember that your name must be in the name of the file).

Lab 3—Monitoring the Moving Constellations