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A Beginner's Guide to Cosmology
This resource gives a general introduction to cosmology; the branch of science that studies the Universe and attempts to explain how it came to be, why it is like it is today and how it will change in the future. The presentation concentrates on the Big Bang theory of the evolution of the Universe and provides some evidence for how this idea might explain things that people see around them. Teachers' notes are included in the word file to accompany the presentation. Download the presentation as a zip, then extract the files to your desktop.
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