11/9-11/13 Week 13
Monday
Test - Unit 2
Homework check
Tuesday
Hand out unit 3 objectives
Crash course sun video
Notes - Our sun
HW - Read/KTU section 7.1/7.2
Wednesday
Notes - Intro to stellar characteristics
HW - Read/KTU sections 8.2-8.4
Thursday
Go over test
Notes - Stellar characteristics continued
Friday
Video - HR diagrams
Notes - HR diagrams
11/2-11/6 Week 12
Monday
Notes - life in our solar system
Seti institute intro video
Tuesday
Notes - SETI & Drake equation
Drake equation video
Wednesday
Notes - Drake equation & fermi paradox
Fermi paradox videos
HW - Take home quiz
Thursday
Practice ACT
Friday
Go over take home quiz
Review for exam
10/19-10/23 Week 10
Monday
PLC day
Tuesday
Notes - Seasons
Wednesday
Seasons discussion continued
Notes - Milankovitch cycles intro
HW - Earth/sun/moon wkst --> Link
Thursday
Notes - Milankovitch cycles & climate change
Friday
Quiz - Earth/sun/moon
10/12-10/16 Week 9
Monday
Notes - Divisions of time (solar vs sidereal)
HW - Read/KTU section 3.3
Tuesday
Notes - Moon phases & tides
Wednesday (End of Q1)
Go over quiz
Notes - Eclipses
Thursday
Fall break
Friday
Fall break
10/5-10/9 Week 8
Monday (Barnes out)
Notes - Nebular theory
Video - solar system formation
Video - protoplanetary disks
HW - Nebulary theory wkst --> Link
Tuesday
Notes - Nebular theory continued
Wednesday
Notes - Exoplanets
Thursday
Notes - Exoplanets continued
Friday
Quiz - Solar system & nebular theory
9/28-10/2 Week 7
Monday
Hand out unit 2 objectives
Notes - Solar system intro & scale
HW - Read/KTU section 3.1-3.3
Tuesday (Barnes out)
Video - How the solar system was born
HW - Finish video worksheet
Wednesday
Video debrief
Notes - Organization of the solar system (planets, dwarf planets, moons)
Thursday
Go over unit 1 test
Friday
Notes - Solar system continued (asteroid/Kuiper belts, comets, meteor showers)
9/21-9/25 Week 6
Monday
Notes - Astronomical units (brightness)
HW - Astro units wkst --> Link (rescheduled from last week)
Tuesday
Notes - Astronomical units (temp)
Hand out unit 1 objective work
Hand out unit 1 HW check
Wednesday
Go over quiz
How to study for astronomy exam
Thursday
Test day norms/expectations
Review for exam
Friday
Test - Unit 1 exam
Unit 1 HW due
9/14-9/18 Week 5
Monday
Finish stellarium lab
Lab debrief
Notes - Daily motion of the sky
Tuesday
Notes - Monthly/yearly motion of the sky
Star trail practice
Wednesday
Monthly sky cycles
More practice
HW - Position/motion wkst --> Link
Thursday
Notes - Astronomical units (distance)
HW - Astro units wkst --> Link
Friday
Quiz - Motion of the sky
Unit 1 exam next week!
9/7-9/11 Week 4
Monday
Labor day
Tuesday
PLC day
Wednesday
Notes - Intro to celestial coordinates
HW - Read/KTU section 2.1/2.2
Thursday
Wrap up celestial coordinates discussion
Lab - Stellarium
Friday
Go over quiz
8/31-9/4 Week 3
Monday
Wrap up telescope discussion
Tuesday
Notes - Astrolabes & parallax
Wednesday
Notes - The Bohr atom & Spectroscopy
Black body radiation & emission vs absorption spectra
Thursday
Notes - Space probes & crewed spacecraft
HW - Astro history/tools --> Link
Friday
Quiz - Astro tools/tech
Intro to celestial sphere
8/24-8/28 Week 2
Monday
Notes - Waves and light
HW - Read/KTU section 5.1/5.2
Tuesday
Notes - Light behaviors
Intro to lab
Wednesday
Lab - Astro tools/tech
HW - Finish lab
Thursday
Go over quiz
Notes - Telescopes
Friday
Notes - Telescopes continued
8/17-8/21 Week 1
Monday
Notes - Astro history (ancient stargazers, Aristotle, Hipparchus)
HW - Read/KTU section 4.1/4.2 (Reminder from Friday)
Tuesday
Notes - Astro history (Ptolemy, Copernicus)
Wednesday
Notes - Astro history (Brahe/Kepler, Galileo, Newton)
Thursday
Notes - Astro history (Herschel, Shapley, Hubble)
Friday
Mini quiz
Notes - Behavior of light
HW - Read/KTU section 5.1/5.2
8/10-8/14 Week 0
Monday
No school
Tuesday
No school
Wednesday
9th grade orientation day
Thursday
Course Intro & Welcome
MTSS videos
HW - Sign & return syllabus --> Link
Friday
Book checkout
Active reading strategy
HW - Read/KTU section 4.1/4.2