Handout: Solar
vs Sidereal Day and Celestial
Homework: Finish
the Solar Day sheet & finish chapter 0
Classwork:
We went over the Celestial sphere model
Explained declination and right ascention using the
handout. We went over the celestial sphere hand-
out and began the power point.
8.27.08 Wednesday
Handout: nothing
Homework: Read
chapter 1 p.23-40 by
September 2
Classwork:
We completed the chapter 0 power point.
Explained seasons, lunar phases, and eclipses
Collected:
nothing
8.29.08 Friday
Handout:
Modeling the Reason for Seasons
Collected:
nothing
Classwork:
Quiz over chapter 0 plus planisphere
class
worked on the activity handout
Homework:
Finish up the Modeling the RFS handout,
Do the chapter 1 reading.
9.2.08 Tuesday
Handout: nothing
Collected: nothing
Classwork: Powerpoints
: Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, Newton
shared biographical details of each of these early
scientists and astronomers.
Homework: Read
chapter 2 p 43-66.for Sept. 11.
9.3.08 Wednesday
Handout:
What are the Characteristics of Earth's Orbit
Investigation 18.
Collected:
The Earth's Orbit Lab
Classwork:
class notes on ellipse, eccentricity calculation
e=c/a focal distance, major axis distance. Students
did the ellipse constructions, calculations, and
lab
analysis in class today.
Homework:
any student who did not complete it today
should complete it tonight for class tomorrow.
9.5.08 Friday
Handout:
nothing
Collected:
Both Investigation 18 and Modeling Reason for Seasons.
Classwork:
we went over both labs, we discussed Kepler's Laws,
explained the ellipse parts, eccentricity calculations, aphelion
and
perihelion. Told the class they would see these again
on the next quiz. We discussed the overlap of concepts
from both labs and pointed out the discrepancy between facts
and preconceptions and the need to replace old knowledge
with new knowledge instead of holding on to the old mis-
information
relating season, solar distance, and solar angular
diameter facts. Continued the powerpoint over chapter 1.
Homework:
continue to read chapter 2.
09.08.08 Monday
Handout:
graded papers
Collected:
nothing
Classwork:
returned graded papers, talked about Modeling the
Reason for Seasons and quality of effort and answers on work.
Power point chapter 1 Newtons Laws, History of Astronomy,
astronomical unit, parallax.
Homework:
finish reading chapter 2.
9.9.08 Tuesday
Handouts:
The Parsec
Collected:
nothing
Classwork:
explained how to do the Parsec paper.
power point chapter 2 Light, demonstrated filter photos
Homework:
complete the Parsec paper for Wednesday.
continue the reading assignment.
9.10.08 Wednesday
Handout:
Kirchoff's Laws of Spectra, color pencils
Collected:
nothing
Classwork:
We went over the concepts in The Parsec, I'll
collect them tomorrow. Students need to do all their
work, with quality and deliberate effort to be thorough,
the latest grades were less than acceptible for several.
Power point for Kirchoff's Laws of Spectra, where they
were explained and illustrated. Students completed
their copies of Kirchoff's Laws.
Homework:
Begin reading chapter 3 Telescopes, check your syllabus.
The Parsec should be completed for class on Friday.
9.12.08 Friday
Handout: What is the Nature
of Solar Energy; Filter Lab; color
pencils
Collected: Filter Lab
Classwork: Students worked
on the filter lab and the Solar
Energy Spectra Lab.
Homework: read Chapter
3 Telescopes, due Sept 16
9.15.08 Monday
Handout: Invest. 28 Prelab (guidelines);
Chap. 2 Power Point
notes.
Collected: Filter Lab and Invest.
28- What is the Nature of Solar
Energy.
Classwork: finish Invest.
28 and anyone with the filter lab
incomplete should finiish it and turn it in also.
Homework: read chapter 3, Telescopes.
9.16.08 Tuesday
Handout: study guide chapter 0-3;
Color Index Lab
Collected: Investigation 28 What is the
Nature of Solar Energy &
the Color Index Lab
Classwork: explained how to
do the color index lab, and told
them to check out the Spectral Chart for the gas tube
samples they viewed before turning in their labs. Students
completed
Investigation 28 and the color index labs.
Homework: finish the chapter 3 reading
and work on the study
guide to prepare for the first Unit 1 test (chap. 0, 1,2,& 3)
9.17.08
Handout: nothing
Collected: the color index lab (now I should
have all 3 labs on
light.)
Classwork: demonstrated fluoresence and discussed
its
relationship to atomic structure: energy absorption,
excitation, ground state, and emission of photons. Fig 2-18
Power point chapter 2 ( including Fig 2-6, 2.10, Blackbody
curves, EM radiant energy, Wiens Law and Stephan
Boltzman's Law)
Homework: Read chapter 3 telescopes
and do the study guide.
9.19.08 Friday
Handout: Blackbody Radiation WS
Collected: Blackbody Radiation
from those who finished.
Classwork: Finished the powerpoint for
chapter 2, Light
The class then worked with a lab partner to complete the
blackbody
radiation packet questions after analyzing the
various graphs and applying the various blackbody radiation
concepts from the power point.
Homework: For students who did not finish
the blackbody
radiation packet you can use your book to help clarify the
concepts
and issues around the discussion of blackbody
graphs. Complete the study guide. Anticipate test possibly
next
Friday-review Wednesday.
9.22.08 Monday
Handout: Stefan-Boltzmann Law of Radiation
WS
Collected: Blackbody Radiation WS
Cl;asswork: discussed the Blackbody Radiation
concepts and
and answers to the WS. Reviewed the slides whose content
was about brightness, luminosity, temperature, and radius.
Then students worked in class on the S-B Radiation WS.
Explained what an H-R diagram is luminosity and
temperature star graph relative to solar output.
Homework: finish the Boltzmann WS for Tuesday.
Test possible
0-3 Friday, do the study guide for the Unit 1 test.
9.23.08 Tuesday
Handout: nothing new.
Collected: Stefan-Boltzmann's Law of
Radiation WS.
Classwork: We went over the explanation
for the WS questions
Began the Chapter 3 power point on telescopes.
Homework: Read chapter 4 solar
system p 99-122. Due by Fri.
Finish the Unit study guide.
9.24.08 Wednesday
Handout: Telescope packet and
telescope packet worksheet
Collected: nothing new, just some
old makeup
Classwork: students worked on
the telescope packet questions
Homework: Finish the telescope
packet worksheet for Friday.
9.26.08 Friday
Handout: Converging Lens Lab #34
Collected: Telescope Packet worksheet
Classwork: Prelab Lens Lab and students
worked on the convex
lens lab using the optical bench.
Homework: study guide unit 1, read
ch 4.
9.29.08 Monday
Handout: Telescope Chapter 3 power
point notes;
Human Eye Resolution Lab & eye chart
Collected: Convex Lens Lab
Classwork: returned papers and comments;
students finished their
optical bench convex lab, trial two and questions.
Students began the human eye resolution lab
Homework: Unit One test Friday - complete
the study guide and
bring it Wednesday for class review; complete the optical
bench lab, Tuesday we'll complete the chapter 3 powerpt
and
radiotelescopes on Tuesday.
9.30.08 Tuesday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: optical bench lab, human
eye resolution lab
Classwork: Telescope power point
Homework: test Friday, be sure to have
the study guide done for
Wednesday.
10.1.08 Wednesday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: We went over the study guide
and explained all of the
questions the students had the whole period. Showed
slides explaining the interferometer and radio telescope.
Homework: test on Friday, Unit one,
chapters 0, 1-3.
10.3.08 Friday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: postponed the test until
Monday and we finished going
over the unit one study guide for chapter 0, 1,2, and 3.
Homework: The test will be on
Monday. Then read chapter 5
on your syllabus.
10.6.08 Monday
Handout: test, scantron,
Unit Two Studyguide (chapters 4,5,6,7 &8)
Collected: Unit ONE studyguide
and test
Classwork: completed the unit
one test during class
Homework: Read chapter 5 as per
the syllabus.
10.7.08 Tuesday
Handout: Focused Discussion:
Planetary Motions- An Introduction
and Major Motions of the Planets and Temperature and
Formation of Our Solar System
Collected: nothing
Classwork: We all worked together
as it was explained how to
read and measure the degrees use the calendar to deter-
mine time. We completed all of the Introduction WS and
all but the last question in Major Motions.
Homework: Complete the temperature
and formation paper and
the last quesstion for tomorrow in the Major Motions Paper.
10.08.08 Wednesday:
Handout: returned the unit
one tests.
Collected: unit one test
questions
Classwork: we went over
the tests examining the questions and
student answers.
Homework: Read chapter 5
as per the syllabus.
10.10.08 Friday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: Temperature and
Formation of the Solar System.
Classwork: Slides show of the
Nebular Hypothesis and the
Accretion Model for the formation of the Solar system.
Showed
students an animation depicting them as well.
Demonstrated Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum
and discussed the roll for flattening and accelerating the
solar disc. Showed slides of stars found to have solar
nebulas
themselves and Planets. 300+ exoplanets have
been discovered up to now by researchers, by either
blocking
out the central star and looking for planets close
to
the central star. Star wobbling is also used a evidence
of
a gravitational tug by circling planets.
We
went over the condensation vs temperature curve for
the cooling and collapsing solar nebula before it was
collected.
Homework: Finish reading chapter
5, solar system.
10.13.08 Monday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: Powerpoint Formation
of the solar system and
properties of planets that need to be included in the model
for the formation of the solar system
Homework: Follow reading
syllabus.
10.14.08 Tuesday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: power point "
Debris in the Solar System" Asteroids,
meteors, comets of the solar system class notes.
Homework: continue
working on the syllabus reading deadlines.
10.15.08 Wednesday:
Handoout Planet Orbital
Positions
CollectedL: nothing new
Classwork: Lecture notes
conjunction, opposition, inferior
and superior conjunction, quadrature, greatest western
and greatest eastern elongation, and planetary transit.
Homework: finiish the handout
questions for Monday. Read.
10.20.08 Monday
handout: Comet WS p106 text
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: finished the
power point formation of the solar
system, then continued the powerpoint meteors and comets
Homework: finish the handout
Comets for tomorrow
and continue the reading syllabus
10.21.08 Tuesday
Handout: Meteors/Meteorites
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: we went over
the comets paper and the planet
orbital positions packet during class and began to
talk about the meteors/meteorites paper.
Homework: quiz comets and
meteorites Friday.
10.22.08 Wednesday
Handout: Planet Cards and
Instruction Sheet; Worksheet,
Planets: Orbits and Physical Characteristics.
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: Computer Lab;
Online resources: During class :
Use the above sites to complete the planet cards and
the Planets Worksheet for Orbits and Physical
Characteristics
Homework: stay up with the reading on
the syllabus
10.24.08 Friday
Handout: Modified Astronomy Syllabus,
follow this revised
reading schedule.
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: class notes over meteors,
meteor showers explaining
Tuesday's handout.
Computer lab to work on the Planet cards and worksheet
Homework: quiz monday over comets
worksheet, meteors and
meteorites and planetary positions terms and phases
Complete the planet cards and worksheet for class.
10.27.08 Monday
Handout: quizzes, Lab 23 Dimensions
of the Solar System,
Planet Orbits and Physical Properties Table
Collected: quizzes
Classwork: quizzes over planetary
positions, meteor/meteorite
packet,
comet WS
Homework: follow syllabus schedule,
use the Physical Properties
Table to help you finish up any incomplete info on your
planet
cards, draw the axial tilt, and orbit inclination on
the front side of the card, along with rings, moons, cloud
bands or atmospheric features, color the planet as it
appears; Complete the Dimensions of the Solar System
Lab 23 for class as homework.
10.28.08 Tuesday
Handout: The Cause of the Moon
Phases.
Collected: Planet cards and Planet
Worksheet; Causes of the
Moon Phases
Classwork: students who did not
finish the quizzes yesterday
were to finish them; students worked on the planet card
Project
and the lunar phases sheets and turned them in.
Homework: finish the
solar system scale paper for Wednesday.
Continue
to read the text following the syllabus reading
schedule.
10.29.08 Wednesday
Handout: Spica Lunar
Orbit Activity:
Collected: completed
solar system scale lab 23
Classwork: explained how
to do the lunar orbit lab and students worked on
the lab during classtime. It will need to be finished on Friday.
Read the list of students who will need to make up the quizzes from
Monday this Thursday.
Homework: the solar
system scale lab 23 will be collected today.
10.31.08 Friday
Handout: Moon Phase Clock;
Moon Time Table
Collected: Spica Lunar
Orbit Lab
Classwork: The
class finished up the Spica Lunar Orbit Lab. On the paper
They: 1. Labeled Earth's orbital path; 2. the Moon's Orbital Path
3. They labeled the positions for the Lunar phases: New Moon, Full
Moon, 1st and 3rd quarter moon, waxing crescent and gibbous range,
and the waning crescent and gibbous range. 4. They answered the
question What is the basic change in your perception of the lunar
orbit after completing this lab compared to the preconceived ideas
about
the lunar orbit that you started this class with?
Students assembled the Moon phase clock and used it to complete
the lunar timetable sheet.
Homework: complete
the lunar timetable sheet if you didn't complete it.
Follow the syllabus: Read chapter 5 by Sunday; Read chapter 9 by
Tuesday
Nov. 4 and read chapter 10 by Tues Nov 11th.
11.03.08 Monday
Handout: Tracking
Jupiter's Moons, replicatiing Galileo's Jupiter obser-
vations and conclusions.
Collected: nothing
new
Classwork: All worked
on Jupiter's Moons Lab
Homework: Read Ch
9 by Tuesday and Chapter 10 by Nov. 11th., Tuesday.
we'll get back to the lunar phase time table next week.
11.04.08 Tuesday
Handout:
nothing new
Collected:
nothing, study the Jupiter's Moons packet for a Quiz Friday.
Classwork:
Finished Jupiter's Moons Packet.
Homework:
study for quiz Jupiter's Moons Lab for next Wednesday 11.12
Write the conclusion and finish all questions in the packet for Mon-
day.
11.05.08 Wednesday
Handout: Stargazing Vagabond Quiz, Earth and its Moon worksheet
Collected: Quiz Stargazing Vagabond, and Earth and Its Moon WS
Classwork: showed the video Stargazing Vagabond during class, did the
video quiz, students completed the Earth and Its Moon WS.
Homework: Read chapter 10 by Tuesday , November 11th.
11.07.08 Friday
Handout:
Our Moon Power point notes
Collected:
nothing new
Classwork:
Video our amazing Sun video and Our Moon Power Point.
Homework:
Finish chapter 10 reading.
11.10.08 Monday
Handout:
The Nearest Stars: The Brightest Stars; Magnitudes; Magnitude
calculations
Collected:
nothing new
Classwork:
discussed magnitude, apparent magnitude, absolute magni-
tude. brightness ratio; Finished the Jupiter's Moons activity,
conclusion writted
Homework:
Quiz on Wednesday over the jupiter's moons activity study
the paper
11.11.08 Tuesday
Handout:
nothing new
Collected:
nothing new
Classwork:
continued the discussion, calculated the parsecs from
parallax, calculated the brightness ratio for various magnitude
differences. Discussed the inverse square law
Homework:
quiz Wednesday, read chapter 10
11.12.08 Wednesday:
Handout: nothing
new
Collected: nothing
new
Classwork:
further discussion about the brightness ratio, further discuss
apparent magnitude and absolute magnitude and determining the
relative distance away from the Earth. Then used this information
to match the stars with the right parallax value. Then used the
parallax
values to calculate the parsec distance to the star to
confirm
the earlier prediction.
Homework: the
quiz will be Friday, bring your Jupiter's moons lab to class.
11.14.08 Friday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: explained how
to use apparent and absolute magnitudes to
determine the relative distance to a star from the Earth; using that
information we determined which of two choices for parallax would
apply to which star; explained how a student can use parallax to
determine the distance of a star in parsec units and light years;
explained
how to determine the brightness change of a star between
it's
apparent and absolute magnitudes and how that correlates to
the inverse square law and brightness ratio. We completely went
over the magnitudes handout. We then explained how to use the
formula
(m-M)/5 + 1 antilog calculates the distance in parsecs and
how to convert from pc to light years.
Homework: students were
assigned the 4 problems above the table and
Q 1-9 on the back. of the Inverse square paper for Monday.
Read chapter 12 Star evolution and Life Cycles p 327-346 by Wed.
We need to quiz Jupiter's moons Monday.
11.17.08 Monday
Handout: Take home
quiz, Jupiter's Moons
Collected: nothing
new
Classwork: We
completed our instruction over how to calculate the
distance in parsecs for a star using its apparent and absolute
magnitudes in the formula, converting to light years, estimating the
distance as > or < 10 pc, and using the brightness ratio, calculating
how much dimmer or brighter one star is compared to another using
magnitude. There will be a quiz about star magnitude.
Homework: complete
the take home quiz over Jupiters Moons for Tuesday.
11.18.08 Tuesday
Handoout: Figure 19-33
Chart and Fig. 19-33 Worksheet
Collected: Jupiter's
Moons take home test, Jupiter's Moons Lab
Classwork: Discussed
life cycle of a star concepts/background and the
nature of chart 19-33.
Homework: finiish
the chart for homework; read chapter 12. There will be a
test next
week over the life cycle of a star based on the activity.
11.19.08 Wednesday
Handout: Life Cycle
of a Star Internet On-line Assignment; Apparent &
Absolute magnitude of stars; Star Formation and Lifetimes WS
Collected: 19-33 Life
Cycle of Star WS answers.
Classwork: We went
over questions about the 19-33 worksheet before
collecting them, therefore all should be completed.
The
rest of the period students went to the computer lab to work on
the online tutorial about star lifecycles.
Homework: The tutorial
is due fully completed for Monday, students are
to print up all completed questions for the tutorial quizzes and tests
they complete working on the project. There will be a test covering
the lifecycle of stars tutorial online activity next Tuesday 11.25.08
The Apparent & Absolute magnitude of stars; Star Formation and
Lifetimes
WS are both due this Friday for class discussion. The ch
12 should be read by today and chapter 14-16 should be read by
December 1st.
11.21.08 Friday
Handout: returned papers Lunar
phase labs.
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: We went over the answers
to the Handout activity Apparent and
Absolute Magnitudes of stars.
Went ov er the answers to Star Formation and Lifetimes.
Computer Lab to work on the Life Cycle of Stars tutorial. It is due
Monday and should be answered and the quizzes and tests should be
printed and attached.
Homework: Test Tuesday Life
Cycle of Stars and the Magnitude of stars so
finish the on-line activity and study them for the test on Tuesday.
Read chapter 14-16 galaxies.
11.24.98 Monday
Handout: H& R
Diagram; Stellar Evolution.
Collected: nothing
new today
Classwork: Life Cycle
of stars packet & Demos students work on H & R
Diagrams and Stellar evolution packet
Homework: tutorial project packet
and quiz/test printouts due Tuesday;
Test
Tuesday Magnitudes and Life cycles .
11.25.08 Tuesday
Handout: Quizzes
Collected: Life Cycle of
the Stars Internet Activity; Distance Calculation WS,
Star Formation & Lifetimes WS, Apparent & Absolute Magnitude of
Stars WS, Stellar Evolution WS, H-R Diagram WS.
Classwork: completed the
quiz on star magnitude, and Life Cycle of Stars
Internet tutorial
Homework: Keep up with the
chapter17 reading assignment.
12.1.08 Monday
Handout: Hubbles Law Packet
and Universe Time Line-S. Hawking
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: announcements,
grades updated and quizzes posted, Ch 17 &
18 will complete the semester. Telescope Observatory Night @ DU
Chamberlain this Saturday 12.6.08, this will be the last night. Its a
100 point project - lab credit. Tues/Thurs reserved sign up filled up
through 12.16.
Class viewed video A Brief History of the Universe - Big Bang-
with
Steven Hawking.
Homework: Read Ch
17 by Dec 7 p431-451 Complete Hubble's Law 12.3.08
12.2.08 Tuesday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: nothing
new
Classwork: completed
viewing the Hawking Big Bang Video looking at the
conceptual models and the historical development and various lines
of evidence for the Big Bang
Homework: continue reading
chapter 17.
12.3.08 Wednesday
Handout: Expansion of Space Simulation
Collected: Nothing new
Classwork: Students worked along with
the teacher's guidance on the
Expansion of Space Simulation to determine the average age of the
Universe. Integrated the Hubble's Law galaxy work done earlier.
Homework: complete the expansion of
Space Simulation for Friday.
Read ch 17 by Dec. 7 p 431-451. The Hubble's Law paper should have
been done today.
12.5.08 Friday
Handout: Expansion of the Universe Worksheet
Collected: Visualizing the Expansion
of Space and Hubble's Law WS.
Classwork: Slide show in class: Completed
Objects in the Universe, then
nearly finished Galaxies, (on Monday we'll do the Universe thru time).
Homework: Read chapter 18:
Life in the Universe. p 455-470.
12.08.08 Monday
Handout: Nothing new
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: Returned many graded
papers.
Slide show Objects of the Universe
Homework: Read chapter 18 Life in the
Universe
12.09.08 Tuesday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: Finished slide
show: the galaxies then
finished video The elegant universe on you tube; followed by
Relativity in 5 Minutes; followed by Time Travel Einstein's Big Idea;
followed by First Time Machine
Homework: Read Chapter
18 Life in the Universe.
12.10.08 Wednesday
Handout: nothing new
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: video clips:
1st Neal de Grasse Tyson - The best sermon ever
on cosmology; Life in the Universe#1; Carl Sagan on the Drake
Equation; Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot; Carl Sagan on God and gods;
Carl Sagan explains the geometry of our Universe.
Homework: Read chapter
18 Life in the Universe
12.12.08 Friday
Handouts: Final Exam
Review packet; Habitability Power Point; Notes for
Habitability of Planets chapter 18, 4 & 5
Collected: Expansion of the Universe
WS; the Makeup virtual computer
work for the Observatory requirement.
Classwork: We went over questions
and answers to the Expansion of the
Universe WS before they were collected. The majority of the class
period we conducted class in the Inflateable Planetarium highlighted
aspects for the course: ecliptic, celestial equator, celestial north pole,
polaris, star paths, zenith, meridian, constellations, magnitudes,
luminosity, Milky Way, distances in the universe using light years and
parsecs and megaparsecs. pointed out various constellations with
and without the lines,
Homework: exam will cover the
content of the review packet. The
completion of the review packet will earn extra credit. It is due on
exam day, next Wednesday as well as the text book.
12.15.08 Monday
Handout: nothing new.
Collected: nothing new
Classwork: classnotes from
the powerpoint on Life in the Universe and
habitability and Drake's equation
Homework: Study for the final; bring
your book back to class tomorrow and
your extra credit study guide will be due tomorrow.
