What are some observations that you personally could make of the planet Jupiter on a clear night?
Instructions
Answer each of the following questions with a paragraph. (Question 2 can be answered with a bulleted list)
What are some observations that you personally could make of the planet Jupiter on a clear night? Please specify whether you’d use just your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope.
If I say that the moon is in Gemini, could that be a scientific observation? What factors would need to be present to make it one?
Name 6 measuring tools you have or might find in a household.
If I use a musical tuner app on my cell phone to determine the pitch of a sound, have I made an observation? Is it a repeatable observation?
Explain why assessing the browning of a slice of apple left on the counter on a scale of 1-5 does not represent a repeatable, quantifiable observation.
If your local radio station announces that the temperature is 50° and you are listening to it, who has made the observation?
If I check timeanddate.com and learn that there’s a full moon next week, have I made an observation? Why or why not?
Can I use the online archive of Hubble Space Telescope images to reject hypothesis using the scientific method? Why or why not? Who made the observations?
Answer preview What are some observations that you personally could make of the planet Jupiter on a clear night?
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