Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars（Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading）

  so these numbers came into existence and evolve like this. the number begins with one, becomes established at three, is completed at five, prospers at seven, and ends in nine. so the sky is ninety thousand li from the earth.other legends about the beginning of universethe biblical account"in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth. now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of god was hovering over the waters. and god said...." day 1 : god spoke and separated light from darkness creating day and night
day 2 : god spoke and separated the water creating sky and ocean
day 3 : god spoke and created dry land day 4 : god spoke and created the sun, moon, and stars
day 5 : god spoke and created living creatures in the air and sea
day 6 : god spoke and created the land animals and man
day 7 : god rested and blessed this day calling it holy  india brahma has created the world many times. this creation is repeated every four ages or yugas. there are four yugas in one eon or kalpa. in the beginning of each kalpa the world is a watery chaos.
as brahma thought beings were created. the demons were created by a wind from his rectum. after creating the demons he discarded his body which became night. he assumed a new body and out of his mouth came the shining gods or devas. this body was also discarded and became day. with his next body he created ancestor spirits. with his fourth body brahma created human beings were created. this discarded body became the moon. with the fifth body brahma had a strange thought and he created ogres, terrible creatures, that wanted to devour the primordial sea of chaos. in shock at what he had done he then created ghouls, or gandharvas. finally he regained his senses and created birds, mammals, plants, and all the other life that we see today.  step 4 appreciationplay a video for the studentshow many types of life on the earth have you seen in the video? name them. students tell everything they have seen in the video. (present on the blackboard the new words and a general picture of the topic of this lesson.) big bang        universe         a cloud of dust              globe      violent    atmosphere     water      plants      cells        shellfish              fish         land animals          insects            amphibians     reptiles    dinosaurs        mammals        apes(monkeys)              humans