5/11-5/15 Week 18
Monday
Notes - The Milky Way & Dark matter
Tuesday
Go over unit 3 test
Lab - Hubble's law
Wednesday
Notes - Cosmology - birth of the universe
Thursday
Notes - Cosmology - death of the universe
Friday
Quiz/Test/Quest/Twiz? Take home?
5/4-5/8 Week 17
Monday
Wrap up black hole discussion
Quiz - Stellar evolution
Tuesday
Go over quiz
Study for test
HW - Objective work
Wednesday
Test - Unit 3
Homework check
Thursday
Notes - Galaxies
HW - Read/KTU section ___
Friday
Notes - Galaxy classification
HW - Galaxy classification workheet
4/27-5/1 Week 16
Monday
Notes - Stellar evolution (low mass)
Tuesday
Notes - Planetary nebulae, white dwarfs, binary systems
HW - Read/KTU section 10.1/10.2/10.4 (reminder from last week)
Wednesday
Go over quiz
Notes - Stellar evolution (high mass)
Thursday
Notes - Neutron stars
Friday
Notes - Black holes
HW - Stellar evolution wkst
4/20-4/24 Week 15
Monday (Barnes out)
Crash course stars video, Prof. Dave HR diagram video
HW - HR worksheet -->
Tuesday
Notes - Star characteristics & HR diagrams
Go over unit 2 test
Wednesday
Lab - HR diagram intro
Thursday
Lab - HR diagram
HW - Read/KTU section 10.1/10.2/10.4
Friday
Quiz - Our sun, stellar characteristics, HR diagrams
4/13-4/17 Week 14
Monday
Go over quiz
Study for exam
Tuesday
Test - Unit 2
Unit 2 homework check
Wednesday
Hand out unit 3 objectives
Crash course sun video
Notes - Our sun
HW - Read/KTU section 7.1/7.2
Thursday
Notes - Sun concluded & intro to stellar characteristics
HW - Read/KTU sections 8.2-8.4
Friday
Notes - Stellar characteristics continued
4/6-4/10 Week 13
Monday
No school
Tuesday
ACT day
Wednesday
Notes - Drake equation
Drake equation video
Thursday
Notes - Fermi paradox
Fermi paradox & great filter videos
Friday
Quiz - Planetary motion & life
Review for exam
HW - Objective work
3/30-4/3 Week 12
Monday
Notes - Kepler's laws, Newton & Einstien
HW - Planetary motion --> Link
Tuesday
Notes - Requirements for life,
Wednesday
Notes - life in our solar system
Seti institute video &
Thursday
Notes - SETI & Drake equation
Friday
No school
3/23-3/27 Week 11
Monday
Notes - Exoplanet detection
HW - Nebulary theory wkst --> Link (from last week)
Tuesday
Quiz - Solar system & nebular theory
Intro to planetary motion lab
Wednesday
Lab - Planetary motion
Thursday
Go over quiz
Friday
Finish planetary motion lab
3/16-3/20 Week 10
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
Video - The Universe: How the Solar System Was Born
Friday
Notes - Exoplanets
3/2-3/6 Week 9
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 (End of Quarter 1)
Solar system presentations
2/23-2/27 Week 8
Monday
Notes - Eclipses
HW - Earth/sun/moon wkst --> Link
Tuesday
Notes - Seasons
Wednesday
Seasons discussion continued
Notes - Milankovitch cycles intro
Thursday
Notes - Milankovitch cycles & climate change
Friday
Quiz - Earth/sun/moon
2/16-2/20 Week 7
Monday
No school
Tuesday
No school
Wednesday
Go over unit 1 exam
Notes - Earth/sun/moon system (moon phases)
Thursday
Moon phase practice
Notes - Tides
Friday
Snow day
2/9-2/13 Week 6
Monday
Review for exam
Hand out homework check sheet
HW - unit 1 objective work
Tuesday
Go over quiz
Review for exam
Wednesday
Test - Unit 1 exam
All homework is due
Thursday
Hand out unit 2 objectives
Notes - Intro to the solar system
HW - Read/KTU section 3.1-3.3
Friday
Go over test
Notes - Earth/sun/moon system (divisions of time)
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)