Standard Candles | Space Science Reading Comprehension Passage & Questions

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Learning about standard candles is important because they are essential for measuring cosmic distances and understanding the universe's scale and expansion. With known intrinsic brightness, standard candles like Type Ia supernovae and Cepheid variables allow astronomers to map the universe, refine the Hubble constant, and study cosmic expansion. This knowledge helps scientists explore the universe’s size, age, dark energy, and galaxy evolution, advancing our understanding of cosmology and the universe's fundamental workings. Let's learn about it together with this amazing resource!

This standard candles based science article provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about standard candles. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this standard candles based article with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

THIS STANDARD CANDLES ARTICLE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
To extend students
To increase scientific literacy in your class
A weekly reading task
Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
To inspire students on a particular topic
Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS STANDARD CANDLES ARTICLE:

3 page Word doc teacher version with answers
2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
3 page PDF teacher version with answers
2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
3 page Google doc teacher version with answers
2 page Google doc student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

Please note: That the Doc versions are images with editable text boxes overlayed on top and this is the most effective way to keep the article sleek and well-designed and also that students cannot change things significantly.

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