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A Cosmic Mad Lib

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BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.3OPENERA COSMIC MAD LIB1PurposeUsingthe vocabulary you’ve learned in this course to complete the origin story belowwill help you remember the words and their definitions. Process1.Complete the story below to figure out the origin story it’s describing.You must use all the words in the Word Bank below, but you can choose your own words as well.Billions of years ago, in a(n) ______________part of the Universe, there was a giant cloud of gas and ________________floating around. One day, the cloudstarted to collapse because it was feeling ________________. As the cloud got smaller, it began to spin ________________.At the center of the spinning cloud, a(n) ________________ball of gas formed. This ball of gas eventually became so ________________that it burst into flames. This flaming gas ball was called the ________________. It was so bright and ________________that it made the rest of the gas and dust spin around it in circles, kindof like a cosmic ________________.But the fun didn’t stop there! All that spinning dust and gas began to stick together and form ________________.Some of these would become huge and gassy while others would become smaller and ________________.One of the smaller ________________became a place with ________________oceans and ________________. Soon enough, life appeared, starting with tiny ________________and eventually leading to complex life forms like ________________.And that’s the ________________story of how our ________________came to be, all thanks to a spinning gas cloud, a(n) ________________star, and some very ________________dust.Word Bankplanets Sun organisms humans rocky Solar System(adjective)(adjective)(adjective)(adjective)(adjective)(adjective)(adjective)(adjective)(adjective)(adjective)(noun)(noun)(noun)(noun)(noun)(plural noun)(noun)Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “A Cosmic Mad Lib”, OER Project, www.oerproject.com/
BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 1.3OPENERA COSMIC MAD LIB22.What do you think the title of this origin story should be?