Mon., Jun. 6, 2011

Announcements: Notebooks today and Wednesday
Objectives: Create a timeline of Notable Events
Warm-ups: Cetus the Whale - Constellation Myth

Use the computers and the paper resources to
determine how long ago these events took place.
Create a paper timeline, to scale, that represents
those events.

Fri., Jun. 3, 2011

Announcements: Hand journals in Monday
Objectives: Telescopes
Opening Data: Visible light view of distant planet
Location, Location, Location
What telescopes can see

Types of telescopes
Types of visible light telescopes & how they work
Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere

Wed., Jun. 1, 2011

Announcements: Welcome to June! Let's check the weather
Objectives: Navigate the skies using the Celestial Sphere
Opening Data: Ecliptic & Zodiac

First Point of Aries
Pisces
Right Ascension & Declination
Sun's paths in the sky
Sidereal year & Tropical Year

Mon., May 30, 2011

Holiday - Memorial Day - No school!
Enjoy

Fri., May 27, 2011

Furlough Day - No school!
Enjoy

Wed., May 25, 2011

Announcements:
Objectives:
Opening Data: Equinoxes & solstices

What's up in our neighborhood right now?
Celestial Sphere & Navigating the night sky

Mon., May 23, 2011

Announcements: Even Day - No school Friday!
Objectives: Understand celestial sphere
Warm-ups: Magnitudes vs. Actual brightness
What's up in our neighborhood right now?
Best known meteor showers
2011 Meteor showers
Observing meteor showers
Celestial Sphere & Navigating the night sky

Fri., May 20, 2011

Announcements: 7 class days left - final exam
Objectives: UnderstandAlbert Einstein's
Contribution to Astrophysics
Opening Data:
Weather Check
Tonight's Seeing & Cloud Cover
Maybe we don't need to worry about any of this!
End of the world tomorrow (video series)
Other world's end predictions
The Special Theory of Relativity & the
General Theory of Relativity
Part 4
Navigating the night sky
Celestial sphere, ecliptic, celestial equator
Magnitudes vs. Actual brightness

Wed., May 18, 2011

Announcements: Senior Finals on Wed. Jun. 8
Objectives: UnderstandAlbert Einstein's
Contribution to Astrophysics
Opening Data: Endeavor & Einstein
Weather Check
The Special Theory of Relativity & the
General Theory of Relativity
Part 1__Part 2___Part 3___Part 4
Navigating the night sky
Celestial sphere, ecliptic, celestial equator

Mon., May 16, 2011

Objectives: Use the HR Diagram to
predict physical properties of stars
Announcements: Get your work graded
Opening Data: Gliese 581d

Continue with HR Questions
Interactive

Fri., May 13, 2011

Objectives: Use the HR Diagram to
predict physical properties of stars
Announcements: Get your HR Diagram graded
Opening Data: Gravitational Lensing & DM
Another look at the weather
HR Diagram video...
finish HR Diagram
What the HR Diagram tells us about star
lifecycle and progression
Continue with HR Questions
Interactive

Wed., May 11, 2011

Objectives: Describe how the HR Diagram
demonstrates star life cylces
Announcements: Star party?
Opening Data: Weather & Stargazing
Clear Sky Chart
Add the following to your graph...
Temperature & Color
Color the background of the graph with
apparent color of the stars
Luminosity & solar radius
Label the main sequence
Label the sun and Capella
Circle and label the white dwarfs,
the red giants, super giants,
HR Diagram video...
What the HR Diagram tells us about star
lifecycle and progression
Interactive

Mon., May 9, 2011

Objectives: Add concept of color, luminosity
temperature & size into our understanding
of the life cycle of stars
Announcements: Check this out...
Opening Data: Most distant spacecraft

Add the following to your graph...
Temperature & Color
Color the background of the graph with
apparent color of the stars
Luminosity & solar radius
Label the main sequence
Label the sun and Capella
Circle and label the white dwarfs,
the red giants, super giants

Fri., May 6, 2011

Objectives: Describe how star brightness is
related to stellar class and temperature
Announcements: You need to finish graphing today
Opening Data: Spectra of the stellar classes

Continue graphing data stellar class vs. magnitude
Data for typical, brightest & giant stars
White dwarf data
Graph starter...

Wed., May 4, 2011

Announcements:
Objectives: Understand that we classify stars
based upon their temperature, color & luminosity
as well as their chemical composition
Opening Data: The Doppler Effect & Red Shift
Bohr Model of the Atom
Brightness of stars
Apparent vs. Absolute magnitude
Stellar class & color
Star life cycle fill-in reading

Introduction to Star Plotting assignment
Basic Data (handout)
White Dwarf Data

Mon., May 2, 2011

Announcements: 6 wks. left - focus & work hard
Objectives: Explain how atoms produce
colors seen in spectra of elements
Opening Data: The Expanding Universe
Bohr Model of the Atom

Mon., Apr. 25, 2011

Announcements: If you have a zero, you must finish
that assignment by Wed (4/27) to get any score at all
Objectives: Explain how atoms produce colors seen in
spectra of elements
Opening Data: The Expanding Universe

Bohr Model of the Atom

Fri., Apr. 22, 2011

Announcements: Monday is an Even Day!
One week left in this grading cycle
All late work due on Wed. next week
Objectives: Examine colors produced by elements
Identify unknown elements by examining exemplars
Describe how complex colors are combinations of
pure colors and determine the identity of unknown
elements by examining their spectra

Opening Data: Another science fiction
or science fact quiz
Build a spectroscope
Flame test Lab
Bohr Model of the Atom

Wed., Apr. 20, 2011

Objectives: Describe processes that happen in stars,
what stars are composed of and explain how the EM
spectrum can give us this information
Announcements: Bring in a cereal box
Opening Data: An astro quiz for you
Other processes that happen in stars...


Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 0107-0111)
Discussion
2nd viewing - take notes (continue/finish)
EM Spectrum Chart
Spectrum Fill-in
Planisphere Challenge:

• At what time tonight will Aldebaran rise?
• Where do you have to look to find it? (N,S,E,W)
  
• How many hours will it be in the sky before it
  sets?
  
• Use the computers...Find the declination &
  right ascension of Aldebaran.
  
• What is the name for the "zero" of declination
  and right ascension?
  
• What constellation is that spot in?

Mon., Apr. 18, 2011

Objectives: Describe one attempt to communicate with
intelligent extra-terrestrial life
Announcements: Checking notebooks on Wed. & Fri.
Opening Data: A message from Carl
Voyager and the "golden record"
Sights & Sounds of Earth

Wed., Apr. 13, 2011

Objectives: Describe electromagnetic spectrum in terms of
the varied types, how they differ, the nature of the spectrum
how it EM waves are created and how they are used in
astronomy
Announcements:
Opening Data: Pegasus Myth

Stellar Evolution diagram
Spectral Pattern of elements
EM Spectrum Vids
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Easier Version?
Spectrum Fill-in

Mon., Apr. 11, 2011

Objectives: Understand how a star changes
Announcements: No school Friday - Furlough
Opening Data: Taurus Myth


Crab Nebula (supernova remnant)
Planispheres & "the ecliptic"
Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 0107-0111)
Accreation Disk & Event Horizon definitions
Stellar Evolution diagram
Stellar Evolution fill-in reading

Fri., Apr. 8, 2011

Objectives: Use a planisphere to determine
what the night sky will look like tonight
Be able to find what times of night (or day)
a given constellation will be visible
Announcements: I need to check opening data soon
Opening Data: Gemini Myth

Let's take 15 minutes and finish the
"Contact" movie essay questions
Construct a planisphere
Learn how to use it

Wed., Apr. 6, 2011

Objectives: Finish "Contact"
Announcments:
Opening Data: Auriga Myth

Don't forget the questions for this movie...
Finish (?) viewing "Contact"

Mon., Apr. 4, 2011

Objectives:
Announcments:
Opening Data: Perseus Myth

Don't forget the questions for this movie...
Continue viewing "Contact"

Fri., Apr. 1, 2011

Objectives: Understand some relationships between time and space
Announcements:
Opening Data: Lyra Myth

Who was Carl Sagan?
Contact Movie Focus Questions
View the movie "Contact"

Wed. Mar. 30, 2011

Objectives: Understand the processes that take plac
e in stars and how the forces produced cause star to
be stable or changeas they age.
Announcements: I still do not have a grade for the
Apollo 13 follow-up questions from many of you -
Grades
Opening Data: Leo Myth
Leo constellation
Article Discussion/Reflection (summary then comment)
What is a star? What's happening inside?
Why does it "Burn"? Why is it so bright?
Why are they different colors?
Fusion Process:


Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 01:07:00-01:11:00)
Discussion
2nd viewing - take notes
Older Stars fuse the helium into other elements



Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 0107-0111)
Discussion
2nd viewing - take notes

Mon., Mar. 28, 2011

Welcome Back!
Objectives: Get ourselves organized
Announcements:
Opening Data: Cygnus

Nebulae...1...2...3...4...5

Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 0107-0111)
Discussion
2nd viewing - take notes

Mon.-Fri., Mar 21-25, 2011

Spring Break - No School!

Fri., Mar. 18, 2011

Objectives: Orion, Mars & Finishing up
Announcements: Today is the last day to
hand in Apollo 13 follow-up questions
Opening Data: Orion Constellation

Orion Nebula
Horehead Nebula
Nebulae
Mars "interesting sights"

• Martian skull
  
• High res. Martian landscape
  
• Famous "Mars Face"
  
• Man walking on Mars
  

Video: Martian Anomalies
Silent work: Apollo 13 questions or
Starry Night Scavenger Hunt

Wed., Mar. 16, 2011

Objectives: Name the sizes and describe the nature of
structures in the universe
Announcements: Apollo 13 follow up questions
are due today!
Opening Data: Andromeda Constellation
Info

Starry Night High School
APOD yesterday
15 minute silence: Finish the Apollo 13 follow-up questions
When you're done: Starry Night Scavenger Hunt
A view of the universe: Video
Getting around the night sky (finish)

Mon., Mar. 14, 2011

Objectives: Find your way around the night sky
Announcements: Check your grades
Opening Data: Circumpolar Constellations
The sky around us
Navigating the night sky

Fri., Mar. 11, 2011

Inservice & Grading...No School

Wed., Mar. 9, 2011

Objectives: Analyze scenarios that can
occur when men explore space
Announcements: If I don't get it today...zero forever
Opening Data: Brightest Northern Stars

APOD
Archive
ISS Layout & Design

Experiments on the ISS

FINISH!!!
Knowledge level Questions (bring up for grading)
Follow-up Questions (deep thought questions)

Mon., Mar. 7, 2011

Objectives: Analyze scenarios that can
occur when men explore space
Announcements: You may continue to work on
the Kepler's Laws activities but may not talk and
disrupt the movie
Opening Data: Space Based Telescopes

APOD - Eruptive Prominence
Finish Kepler's Laws activities
Get your notebook graded
Watch "Apollo 13" - Dont forget the Qs:
Knowledge level Questions (answer during the film)
Follow-up Questions (deep thought questions)

Fri., Mar. 4, 2011

Objectives: Analyze scenarios that can
occur when men explore space
Announcements: You may continue to work on
the Kepler's Laws activities but may not talk and
disrupt the movie
Opening Data: ISS Tracking
APOD - Shuttle at ISS
Finish Kepler's Laws activities
Get your notebook graded
Watch "Apollo 13" - Dont forget the Qs:
Knowledge level Questions (answer during the film)
Follow-up Questions (deep thought questions)

Wed., Mar. 2, 2011

Objectives: Analyze scenarios that can
occur when men explore space
Announcements: You may continue to work on
the Kepler's Laws activities but may not talk and
disrupt the movie
Opening Data: Exploration of Space

View "Apollo 13"
Knowledge level Questions (answer during the film)
Follow-up Questions (deep thought questions)

Mon., Feb. 28, 2011

Objectives: Identify and apply Kepler's 1st
& 2nd Laws
Announcements: 5 more session til grades
Opening Data: What types of Telescopes Where?


Finish Kepler's !st Law Activity
Kepler's 2nd & Third Laws Activity
Diagram for Kepler's 2nd & 3rd

Fri., Feb. 25, 2011

Objectives: Identify and apply Kepler's 1st
& 2nd Laws
Announcements: Grades
Assignments
Evaluate Last notebooks
End of 6 weeks: Mar. 11
Opening Data: Types of "Light"

EM Spectrum Song
Finish Kepler's !st Law Activity
Kepler's 2nd & Third Laws Activity
Diagram for Kepler's 2nd & 3rd

Wed., Feb. 23, 2011

Objectives: Analyze planet data and
determine how to draw the orbits of planets
Announcements: Grades
Assignments
Evaluate Last notebooks
End of 6 weeks: Mar. 11
Opening Data: Valentine's APOD
Today's APOD

Kepler's First Law Activity

Mon., Feb. 21, 2011

President's Day - No School

Fri., Feb. 18, 2011

Science Career Day

Wed., Feb. 16, 2011

Objectives: Analyze Obits of the Planets
Announcements: I would like to check notebooks today
Special Class on Friday
No school Monday - President's Day
Opening Data: Valentine's Day Encounter
APOD
What comets are up there that we can observe?
Comet Holmes
Comet tails

Long period vs. short period
Kepler's First Law Activity

Mon., Feb. 14, 2011

Objectives: Explore planetary orbits
Announcements: Hand in your journals next class
Organized
Complete
Assignments Finished

Opening Data: UTC and other time codes
Time Zone Map
Organize your journal
Finish Assignments
Kepler's First Law Activity

Fri., Feb. 11, 2011

Objectives: Analyze solar system data
Announcements: Journals due on Wednesday
Table of Contents
Opening Data: Alchemical symbols for the planets

Ellipses & Eccentricity
Solar system data & questions:
1 In an sufficiently large "ocean" which planets
would float and which would sink? Explain.
2. Which planet is the best sphere and which is
the most "oblong"?
3. Which planet has the longest day? Year?
4. Which planet has the shortest year yet the longest day?
Put them into the same terms so that you can compare them.
5. Look on the internet how many moons does
Jupiter have? Which has the most after Jupiter?
6. Which planet has the most tilted orbit and which
has a tilt closest to ours?
Kepler's First Law Activity

Wed., Feb. 9, 2011

Objectives: Relative sizes of planets & Stars
Analyze solar system data
Announcements: I will collect notebooks next
Wednesday - Table of Contents
Opening Data: Trans-Neptunian Objects







Check out this solar system model...
Where are the planets right now?
Solar system data & questions:
1 In an sufficiently large "ocean" which planets
would float and which would sink? Explain.
2. Which planet is the best sphere and which is
the most "oblong"?
3. Which planet has the longest day? Year?
4. Which planet has the shortest year yet the longest day?
Put them into the same terms so that you can compare them.
5. Look on the internet how many moons does
Jupiter have? Which has the most after Jupiter?
6. Which planet has the most tilted orbit and which
has a tilt closest to ours?

Mon., Feb. 7, 2011

Objectives: Structure of our solar system
Announcements: Do you have your spiral yet?
Opening data: Our Solar System -




Scattered Disk
APOD today

Fri., Feb. 4, 2011

Objectives: Understand Solar Cycles
Announcements: Please have your spiral by Wed.
Table of Contents
Opening Data: Sol
Apod: Solar Prominence
STEREO clip of solar flare
Sunspots & Sunspot Cycle
Solar Flares & Classification
Solar Prominences & Solar Filaments

Wed., Feb 2, 2011

Opening Data: Luna
Objectives: The moon's affects on our planet
Announcements: Syllabus
Notebooks
Blog
"Astronomy is a dead science!"
In our solar system
Exoplanets
Even our galaxy

Moon phases
Today's moon & moon facts
Tides & Tidal Forces
Seasons