Astronomy Weekly Plans

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