Remembering Stephen Hawking
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Stephen Hawking's legacy will live on."
Educator Guide: Stephen Hawking’s Legacy Will Live On
During a career that spanned more than half a century, Stephen Hawking deduced new properties of mysterious chasms in spacetime.
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About this guide
The article “Stephen Hawking’s legacy will live on” gives a brief overview of the scientific work of Stephen Hawking, a famous physicist who died on March 14, 2018. Students can focus on information reported in the article, follow connections to earlier articles about Hawking’s work and pursue cross-curricular connections in physics, biology and engineering. In a related activity, students can work individually or in small groups to derive equations and calculate a theoretical amount of Hawking radiation emitted by a black hole.
This Guide Includes:
A life revisited
Students will explore and compare articles about Stephen Hawking and black holes from the Science News archive.
Mind over body
These discussion prompts focus on some of Stephen Hawking's most notable discoveries and ideas, as well as the disease that destroyed his nerve cells.
Escaping from a black hole
Students will come to better understand black holes and Hawking radiation by deriving expressions and calculating theoretical data that relate to these phenomena.