Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Lesson plans and ideas based on the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey TV series.

Episode 1: Standing Up in the Milky Way

 * Standing Up in the Milky Way wikipedia entry.

Writing Prompts

 * Where would you take a Ship of the Imagination?
 * Your Cosmic Calendar Birthday. What happened on your birthday on the Cosmic calendar? What had already been created in the universe, what was created around your birthday?

Math Problems

 * Light years. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, or about 671 million miles per hour. Calculate how far it travels in a year. How far has light traveled since you were born? Look on a star map to see how far that is out in space and what stars are in that space (or not in that space).

Episode 2: Some of the Things That Molecules Do

 * Some of the Things That Molecules Do wikipedia entry.

Episode 3: When Knowledge Conquered Fear

 * When Knowledge Conquered Fear wikipedia entry.

Episode 4: A Sky Full of Ghosts

 * A Sky Full of Ghosts wikipedia entry.

Episode 5: Hiding in the Light

 * Hiding in the Light wikipedia entry.

Episode 6: Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still

 * Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still wikipedia entry.

Reading Further

 * Tree of Life Project
 * '''Tardigrades | Absurd Creature of the Week: The Incredible Critter That’s Tough Enough to Survive in Space, Wired magazine, March 2014.

Episode 7: The Clean Room

 * The Clean Room wikipedia entry.

Episode 8: Sisters of the Sun

 * [hhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_the_Sun Sisters of the Sun] wikipedia entry.

Episode 9: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth

 * The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth wikipedia entry.

Episode 10: The Electric Boy

 * The Electric Boy wikipedia entry.

Episode 11: The Immortals

 * The Immortals wikipedia entry.

Episode 12: The World Set Free

 * The World Set Free wikipedia entry.

Episode 13: Unafraid of the Dark

 * Unafraid of the Dark wikipedia entry.

Lesson Plans

 * '''Cosmos Lesson Plans from Fox TV.