1/26-1/30 Week 4
Monday
Notes - Celestial coordinates continued
Celestial motion practice
Tuesday
Go over quiz
Wednesday
Lab - Stellarium
Debrief & discuss lab
HW - Finish lab
Thursday
Lab - Stellarium continued & debrief
Notes - Daily sky cycles
Friday
Notes - Daily & monthly sky cycles
Star trail practice
1/19-1/23 Week 3
Monday
No school
Tuesday
Notes - Space probes, crewed spacecraft, parallax
HW - Astro history/tools --> Link
Wednesday
Quiz - Astro history & tools/tech
Thursday
Notes - Intro to celestial coordinates
HW - Read/KTU section 2.1/2.2
Friday
Cold day
1/12-1/16 Week 2
Monday
Notes - Behavior of light
Intro to lab
HW - Read/KTU section 5.1/5.2
Tuesday
Wave behaviors
Lab - Astro tools/tech
Wednesday
Lab wrap up
Telescopes
Thursday
Notes - Telescopes continued
Friday
Notes - Spectroscopy
Quiz early next week!
1/5-1/9 Week 1
Monday
Course intro & expectations
Discussion - Interests in astronomy? Stargazing?
HW - Sign/return course syllabus
Tuesday
Book checkout
HW - Read/KTU section 4.1/4.2
Wednesday
Notes - Astro history (ancient stargazers, Aristotle, Hipparchus)
Thursday
Notes - Astro history (Ptolemy, Copernicus)
Friday
Notes - Astro history (Brahe/Kepler, Galileo, Newton)