Grade 8 Astronomy PDF

Explore and 12 Present Module 4 Before you read Expository Text 1 Look at the pictures and guess what the text is about. Mohammed is a...

Explore and 12 Present Module 4 Before you read Expository Text 1 Look at the pictures and guess what the text is about. Mohammed is a student in grade 8. His teacher asked him to prepare a project and a PowerPoint presentation about Astronomy. Here is what he found on the internet about Astronomy. Mankind has long looked to the sky, Inventing the telescope helped us discover trying to understand the universe. our universe, solar system and galaxies. Early Astronomy is defined as “the study of astronomers noticed patterns in the sky. They stars, planets and space.” tried to organise them in order to follow the Historically, astronomy has focused stars and planets and predict their motion. on observations of what appears in the The movement of the stars and planets was sky. Unlike most other fields of science, studied by people around the world, but was astronomers are unable to observe a widespread in China, Egypt, Greece, Central system entirely from birth to death. The America, and India. life of stars and galaxies is millions to Most astronomy today is done by using billions of years. remote telescopes - on the ground or in In the past, it was very difficult to study space. They are controlled by computers, with astronomy because people didn’t have astronomers somewhere far away studying data advanced technology or the necessary and images. equipment to see distant things. Since the beginning of digital photography, astronomers have provided amazing pictures of Consult the dictionary for the space. Astronomers and space flight programmes meanings of the underlined have also contributed to the study of our own words “entirely” and planet. When missions travelled to the Moon and “remote”. beyond, they looked back and snapped great 88 images of The Earth from space.  2 Read the text and answer the following questions: 1. What did astronomy focus on in the beginning? 2. How can satellites help us to study our planet? 3. What is the theme of the passage? 4. In your opinion, how can astronomy help us to protect the Earth? 3 Grammar in context Indefinite Pronouns Person Place Thing We use indefinite pronouns to refer to people or things without every everybody everywhere everything saying exactly who or what they are. some somebody somewhere something any anybody anywhere anything no nobody nowhere nothing Complete the following sentences using everything, anything, everybody and nobody: 1. I am excited. Is there..................................... I can do to help with this project? 2...................................... in this museum is from the outer space. 3...................................... is happy with the wonderful pictures of the Earth. 4. There is..................................... living on the moon. There are no animals either. 5...................................... wants to travel in a spaceship to explore space. 4 Write four sentences about yourself, friends or family using indefinite pronouns. ……........…….....…………….....…………….....………....…....………….....…………….....…………….....……………...............…………… ……........…….....…………….....…………….....………....…....………….....…………….....…………….....……………...............…………… ……........…….....…………….....…………….....………....…....………….....…………….....…………….....……………...............…………… ……........…….....…………….....…………….....………....…....………….....…………….....…………….....……………...............…………… ……........…….....…………….....…………….....………....…....………….....…………….....…………….....……………...............…………… 89