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The Big Bang Theory - Resources

Web Lesson Plans

Formation of the Universe: Theories and Evidence
In this lesson plan for grade nine from the Canadian Space Agency, students analyze the results of a Big Bang demonstration. The teacher uses the explosion of a balloon filled with colored confetti to model the results of the Big Bang.

Theories of the Universe
Students observe and draw a model for universe expansion and make connections between the big bang theory and current satellite data in this lesson plan from CNN.

The Big Bang Theory
This activity from grades 8-9 was designed to show students that taking a given mass of material and applying a force to it can produce a pattern that replicates the material patterns noted when applying the Big Bang Theory.

Animations

Big Bang
Check out this animation of the Big Bang, it's in French, but you should be able to get the idea.

Welcome to Britain's Rock Past
This site opens with an animation of the Big Bang.

Big Bang
View a movie of the Big Bang at the Hubble site.



 

 

Web Sites

Stephen Hawking's Universe
This site from PBS explores four basic questions Where do we come from? How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way it is? How will it end?

Take a Trip Through the Big Bang

Take an animated tour through the chain of physical events that cosmologists believe occurred while the expanding Universe we observe today was very small and very young at this site from Dr. Patricia Schwarz.

Web Articles

The Big Bang
This site from the Exploratorium museum of science in San Francisco give a basic overview of the Big Bang Theory.

Take a Trip Through the Big Bang

Take an animated tour through the chain of physical events that cosmologists believe occurred while the expanding Universe we observe today was very small and very young at this site from Dr. Patricia Schwarz.

Big Bang Theory
Learn about the Big Bang at this site from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.