12/16-12/20 Finals Week
Monday
Notes - Cosmology - death of the universe
HW - galaxies/cosmology take home quiz
Tuesday
Go over take home quiz
Review for final exam
Wednesday
Finals periods 1,2,3
Thursday
Finals periods 4,5
Friday
Finals periods 6,7
12/9-12/13 Week 18
Monday
Notes - The Milky Way
Tuesday
Notes - Dark matter
Wednesday
Go over unit 3 exam
Notes - Galaxy classification
HW - Galaxy classification practice
Thursday
Notes - Cosmology - birth of the universe
Friday (PLC schedule)
Notes - Cosmology - death of the universe
Quiz/Test/Quest/Twiz next week?
12/2-12/16 Week 17
Monday
Notes - Neutron stars
HW - Stellar evolution wkst -->
Tuesday
Notes - Black holes
Wednesday
Quiz - Stellar evolution
Thursday
Go over quiz
Study for exam
Friday
Test - Unit 3 exam
11/25-11/29 Week 16
Monday
Crash course video
Notes - Planetary nebulae, white dwarfs, binary systems
HW - Read/KTU section 10.1/10.2/10.4 (reminder from last week)
Tuesday
Go over quiz
Notes - Stellar evolution (high mass)
Wednesday
No school
Thursday
No school
Friday
No school
11/18-11/22 Week 15
Monday (Barnes out)
Lab - Star in a box
HW - Finish lab
Tuesday
Pre-ACT
Wednesday
Debrief lab
HR lab example
Notes - Main sequence stars
Thursday
Quiz - Our sun, stellar characteristics, HR diagrams
HW check
HW - Read/KTU section 10.1/10.2/10.4
Friday
Notes - Stellar evolution (low mass)
11/11-11/15 Week 14
Monday (Barnes out)
Video - Secrets of the sun
HW - Read/KTU section 7.1/7.2 (reminder from last week)
Tuesday
Discuss sun & video
Notes - Stellar characteristics
HW - Read/KTU sections 8.2-8.4
Wednesday
Go over exam
Notes - Stellar characteristics continued
Thursday
Video - HR diagrams
Notes - HR diagrams
Friday
HR diagram practice
HW - HR worksheet -->
11/4-11/8 Week 13
Monday
Wrap up unit 2
Revisit Drake equation
Review for exam
HW - Objective work
Tuesday
No school
Wednesday
Go over quiz
Review for exam
Thursday
Test - Unit 2 exam
HW check
All unit 2 formative work due
Friday
Hand out unit 3 objectives
Crash course sun video
Notes - Our sun
HW - Read/KTU section 7.1/7.2
10/28-11/1 Week 12
Monday
Notes - Requirements for life continued (water)
Tuesday
Notes - Life in our solar system
Wednesday
Notes - SETI & Drake equation
Seti institute video & drake equation video
Thursday
Notes - Fermi paradox
Fermi paradox & great filter videos
Friday
Quiz - Planetary motion & life
10/21-10/25 Week 11
Monday
Lab - planetary motion
Debrief lab
Tuesday
Go over quiz
Notes - Kepler's laws
HW - Read/KTU section 4.3?
Wednesday
Notes - Newton & Einstein
HW - Planetary motion -->
Thursday
Law vs Theory vs Hypothesis
Wrap up planetary motion
Friday
Notes - Requirements for life
10/14-10/18 Week 10
Monday
No school
Tuesday
No school
Wednesday
Notes - Exoplanet detection
HW - Nebulary theory wkst --> Link (reassigned from last week)
Thursday
Quiz - Solar system & nebular theory
HW check
Intro to planetary motion lab
Friday
Lab - Planetary motion
10/7-10/11 Week 9
Monday
Solar system concluded
Tuesday
Notes - Nebular theory
Video - solar system formation
Wednesday
Notes - Nebular theory continued
Video - protoplanetary disks
HW - Nebulary theory wkst --> Link
Thursday
Notes - Exoplanets
Friday
No school
9/30-10/4 Week 8
Monday
Solar system project intro
Tuesday
Solar system research
Wednesday
Go over earth/sun/moon quiz
Solar system research
HW - Finish solar system presentation
Thursday
Solar system presentations
Friday
Solar system presentations
9/23-9/27 Week 7
Monday
Moon phase practice
Notes - Eclipses
Tuesday
Notes - Tides
HW - Earth/sun/moon wkst --> Link
Wednesday
Notes - Seasons
Thursday
Notes - Milankovitch cycles & climate change
Friday
Quiz - Earth/sun/moon
9/16-9/20 Week 6
Monday
Go over quiz
Review for unit 1 exam
Tuesday
Test - Unit 1 exam
HW check
Wednesday
Hand out unit 2 objectives
Notes - Intro to the solar system
HW - Read/KTU section 3.1-3.3
Thursday
Notes - Earth/sun/moon system (divisions of time)
Friday
Go over unit 1 exam
Notes - Earth/sun/moon system (moon phases)
9/9-9/13 Week 5
Monday
Notes - Daily & monthly sky cycles
Star trail practice
HW - Position/motion wkst --> Link
Tuesday
Notes - Astronomical units
HW - Astro units wkst --> Link
Wednesday
More sky motion practice
Wrap up astronomical units
Thursday
Quiz - Motion of the sky
Friday (Barnes out)
Go over quiz
Review for unit 1 exam
9/3-9/6 Week 4
Monday
Labor day
Tuesday
PLC day
Wednesday
Go over history/tech quiz
Finish celestial motion discussion
Thursday
Lab - Stellarium
Friday
Lab - Stellarium continued
Debrief & discuss lab
HW - Finish lab
8/26-8/30 Week 3
Monday
Notes - Wave behaviors & telescopes
HW - Astro history/tools --> Link
Tuesday
Notes - Space probes & crewed spacecraft
Review for quiz
Wednesday
Quiz - Astro history & tools/tech
HW check
HW - Read/KTU section 2.1/2.2
Thursday
Notes - Intro to celestial motion
Friday
Go over quiz
Celestial motion practice
8/19-8/23 Week 2
Monday
Notes - Astro history continued
HW - Read/KTU section 5.1/5.2
Tuesday
Wrap up astro history
Intro to lab
Wednesday
Lab - Astro tools/tech -->
Thursday
Notes - Waves & light
Lab debrief
Friday
Notes - Spectroscopy & Parallax
8/12 - 8/16 Week 1
Monday
9th grade orientation
Tuesday
Course intro and welcome
MTSS video
HW - Return signed syllabus
Wednesday
Academic effort discussion
Book checkout?
Thursday
Astro history
Friday
Astro history