Mon., Jun. 11, 2012

Opening Data: None

Objectives: Asessment
Announcements:

Final Exam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri., Jun. 8, 2012

Opening Data: None

Objectives: Launch Day!

Announcements:Final Exam - see you Monday

Fuel 'em & Launch 'em

Thurs., Jun. 7, 2012

Opening Data: G
Objectives: Create rockets/research projects
 2 days left!
Announcements: launch tomorrow - bring a coat if necessary

Complete your rocket

Research reports due Mon. during final exam
Did you get a grade?: HR Diagram & questions

Wed., Jun. 6, 2012

Opening Data: Galactic Smash-up Coming
Objectives: Create rockets/research projects
 3 days left!
Seniors - Final Exam

Announcements: Extra credit for bringing supplies to share

Bring a 2 liter bottle & construct your rocket

Rocket requirements 

• Fins & nose cone
• A design/theme or pizzazz factors
• Find CM and CP
• Test stability (for video click here)
  
• Water rocket calculator to determine how much water

OR

Work on your research & report
Did you get a grade?: HR Diagram & questions

Tues., Jun. 5, 2012

Opening Data: Viewing the Transit of Venus
Objectives: Create rockets/research projects
 4 days left!
Seniors - Final Exam

Announcements: Extra credit for bringing supplies to share

Bring a 2 liter bottle & construct your rocket

Rocket requirements 

• Fins & nose cone
• A design/theme or pizzazz factors
• Find CM and CP
• Test stability (for video click here)
  
• Water rocket calculator to determine how much water

OR

Work on your research & report
Did you get a grade?: HR Diagram & questions

Mon., Jun. 4, 2012

Opening Data: Transit of Venus 2012

Objectives: Create rockets/research projects
 5 days left!
Announcements: Extra credit for bringing supplies to share

Bring a 2 liter bottle & construct your rocket

Rocket requirements 

• Fins & nose cone
• A design/theme or pizzazz factors
• Find CM and CP
• Test stability (for video click here)
• Water rocket calculator to determine how much water

OR

Work on your research & report
Did you get a grade?: HR Diagram & questions

Fri., Jun. 1, 2012

Opening Data: The recent eclipse from space
Objectives: Create rockets/research projects
 6 days left!
Announcements: Extra credit for bringing supplies to share
Bring a 2 liter bottle - construct your rocket
Rocket requirements 

• Fins & nose cone
• A design/theme or pizzazz factors
• Find CM and CP
• Test stability
• Water rocket calculator do determine how much water

OR
Work on your research & report
Did you get a grade?: HR Diagram & questions

Thurs., May 31, 2012

Opening Data: Dark stuff

Objectives: Analyze our diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
 8 days left!
Announcements: Extra credit for bringing supplies to share
Bring a 2 liter bottle - construct your rocket
Rocket requirements 

• Fins & nose cone
• A design/theme or pizzazz factors
• Find CM and CP
• Test stability
• Water rocket calculator do determine how much water

OR
Work on your research & report
Did you get a grade?: HR Diagram & questions

Wed., May 30, 2012

Opening Data: Practical Rocketry Reading
Objectives: Analyze our diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
Announcements:  9 days left! 
Rocketry Quiz

Rocket requirements
Did you get a grade?: HR Diagram & questions
Work on your report

Tues., May 29, 2012

Opening Data:  Black Holes
Objectives: Analyze our diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
10 days left!
Announcements: Extra Credit
Finish HR Diagram & questions
Get them graded 
Select a final project

Fri., May 25, 2012

Opening Data:  When will the shuttle dock at the
ISS and what are it's goals?  Land?
Extrasolar Planets 
Hot Ocean world
Objectives: Analyze our diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
10 days left!
Announcements: Extra Credit
Finish HR Diagram & questions
Get them graded

Thurs., May 24, 2012

Opening Data:  1st commercial shuttle launched Monday
Objectives: Analyze our diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
11 days left!
Announcements: Extra Credit
Finish HR Diagram & questions
Get them graded

Wed., May 23, 2012

Opening Data:  Larger moon?  Really?
Objectives: Analyze our diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
12 days left!
Announcements: Extra Credit

How stars evolve as they age 
Notes on the process

Complete all of the questions

Tues., May 22, 2012

Opening Data:  Moon Illusion (Supermoon)
Objectives: Create a diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
Announcements: Extra Credit
Color your graph

Temperature of the classes of stars 
How stars evolve as they age
Notes on the process

Answer all of the questions

Mon., May 21, 2012

Opening Data:  Eclipse chat
Objectives: Create a diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
Announcements: Extra Credit come up with a Mnemonic of your own (for anything in astronomy)

Finish Graphing Star Data by today

Basic Data (handout)
Look up star color & color your graph

Find Temperature of the classes of stars and include that on your graph

Complete questions 5 -9

Fri., May 18, 2012

Opening Data:  Eclipse Watch
Sunday, May 20, 01:22:20 UTC

Objectives: Create a diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
Announcements: Extra Credit come up with a Mnemonic of your own (for anything in astronomy)

Contintue Graphing Star Data

Basic Data (handout)
Look up star color & color your graph

Find Temperature of the classes of stars and include that on your graph

Questions 5 -9

Thurs., May 17, 2012

Opening Data:  Where did the Moon come from?
APOD Tuesday
Objectives: Create a diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
Announcements: Extra Credit come up with a Mnemonic of your own (for anything in astronomy)
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...

Wed., May 16, 2012

Opening Data:  Stellar Classes
Only Bumbling Astronomers
Forget Generally Known Mnemonics (L & T)
Objectives: Create a diagram which relates
temperature, color, age, size & composition of
stars
Announcements: Extra Credit come up with a Mnemonic of your own (for anything in astronomy)
Classes of Stars: 

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Where are the green stars?
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Introduction to Star Plotting assignment
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...

Tues., May 15, 2012

Opening Data:  Einstein & relativity2
Objectives: Use a spectroscope to analyze stellar data
Announcements: 
Stellar Evolution
Classes of Stars: 

  

Only Bumbling Astronomers
Forget Generally Known Mnemonics (L & T)
 Introduction to Star Plotting assignment
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...

Mon., May 14, 2012

Opening Data:  Einstein & relativity1
Objectives: Use a spectroscope to analyze stellar data
Announcements: Get these graded...

• Calibration Curve
• Identify the unknown element
• Calculate the energy of lines in the spectrum of Hydrogen.

If you're finished:  Starry Night Scavenger Hunt

Fri., May 11, 2012

Opening Data: Solar system boundary
Objectives: Use a spectroscope to analyze stellar data
Announcements: Get these graded...

• Calibration Curve
• Identify the unknown element
• Calculate the energy of lines in the spectrum of Hydrogen.

If you're finished:  Starry Night Scavenger Hunt

Thurs., May 10. 2012

Opening Data: Alien Matter
Objectives: Use a spectroscope to analyze stellar data
Announcements: 

Identify the unknown element

Calculate the energy of lines in the spectrum

of Hydrogen.

Wed., May 9, 2012

Opening Data: What is the Universe expanding into? Objectives: Use a spectroscope to analyze stellar data
Announcements: 

Identify the unknown element

Calculate the energy of lines in the spectrum

of Hydrogen.

Tues., May 8, 2012

Opening Data: Red Shift

 Objectives: Create a specroscope and use it to analyze stellar data
Announcements: 
Hubble's Law

Energy =...
Finish Flame Test Lab

Calibrate your spectroscope (if you haven't already)

Identify the unknown element

Calculate the energy of lines in the spectrum

of Hydrogen.

Mon., May 7, 2012

Opening Data: The Doppler Effect

 Objectives: Create a spectroscope and use it to analyze stellar data
Announcements: 
Audio Doppler Effect 
Finish Flame Test Lab

Calibrate your spectroscope (if you haven't already)

Identify the unknown element

Calculate the energy of lines in the spectrum

of Hydrogen.

Fri., May 4, 2012

Opening Data: Milky Way in different

EM bands
Objectives: Create a specroscope and use it 
to analyze stellar data
Announcements: 
Flame test lab introduction
Part 1
Part 2

Thurs., May 3

Opening Data: Charting the Milky Way
Objectives: Create a specroscope and use it 
to analyze stellar data
Announcements: 
A little about the periodic table
Calibrate spectroscopes

Wed., May 2, 2012

Opening Data: Milky Way in 3D
Objectives: Create a specroscope and use it 
to analyze stellar data
Announcements: Grades & notebooks
A little about the periodic table
Finish spectroscopes

Tues., May 1 , 2012

Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum Song
Objectives: Create a specroscope and use it 
to analyze stellar data
Announcements: Grades & notebooks
A little about the periodic table
Finish spectroscopes

Mon., Apr. 30, 2012

Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum Song
Objectives: Create a specroscope and use it 
to analyze stellar data
Announcements: Grades & notebooks
A little about the periodic table
Finish spectroscopes

Wed., Apr. 25, 2012

Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum Song
Objectives: Discover how spectroscopic

data is useful in astronomy

Announcements: Got a cereal box?
Show me your notebook
The Bohr model of the atom and production
of light spectrum of the elements
A little about the periodic table
also
Build a spectroscope (prep)

Tues., Apr. 24, 2012

Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum Song
Objectives: Discover how spectroscopic

data is useful in astronomy

Announcements: Cereal Boxes by Wed.
Show me your notebook
The use of spectral data in astronomy
The Bohr model of the atom and production
of light spectrum of the elements
A little about the periodic table
also
Prep for Flame Test Lab

Mon., Apr. 23, 2012

Opening Data: Electromagnetic spectrum
Objectives: Discover how spectroscopic
data is useful in astronomy
Announcements: Bring your cereal box
Show me your notebook
The visisble spectrum
The use of spectral data in astronomy
Electromagnetic Spectrum Song

Fri., Apr. 20, 2012

Opening Data: Earth's many mini-moons
Objectives: Analyze planetary motion 
Announcements: Lyrid meteor shower
this weekend (new moon)
Show me your notebook
Origins: The Earth is Born 

Thurs., Apr. 19, 2012

Opening Data: Electromagnetic Spectrum

Objectives: Analyze planetary motionAnnouncements: Notebooks this week
Show me your notebook
Finish: Kepler's Second Law
Origins: The Earth is Born

Wed., Apr. 18, 2012

Opening Data: Speed of Light, c = 3.0 x 10^8 m/s
What's a light year? Parsec?
Objectives: Analyze planetary motion
Announcements: Notebooks this week
Show me your notebook
Finish: Kepler's Second Law

Tues., Apr. 17, 2012

Opening Data: Speed of Light, c = 3.0 x 10^8 m/s
Objectives: Analyze planetary motion
Announcements: Notebooks this week
Show me your notebook
Finish: Kepler's Second Law

Mon., Apr. 16, 2012

Furlough Day - No School

Fri., Apr. 13, 2012

Opening Data: Gravity can bend space-time


Objectives: Analyze planetary motion
Announcements: Notebooks this week
Show me your notebook
Kepler's Second Law.

Thurs., Apr. 12, 2012

Opening Data: None
Objectives: Analyze planetary motion
Announcements: Notebooks this week
Notebooks: Table of Contents
Finish: Kepler's First Law
(best on the web--eccentricity)
Kepler's Second Law.

Wed., Apr. 11, 2012

Opening Data: None
Objectives:
Announcements: Notebooks this week
Notebooks: Table of Contents
Finish: Kepler's First Law
(best on the web--eccentricity)
When your done...

Tues., Apr. 10, 2012

Opening Data: Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
Objectives: Analyze how planets orbit a star
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Notebooks this week
Planet Orbits: Ellipses
Kepler's First Law

Mon., Apr. 9, 2012

Opening Data: Voyager & Golden Record
Objectives: Orbits of Planets
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Planet Orbits: Ellipses
Past Due:
Write your "Contact" Essay (hand it in today)

Tues., Apr. 10, 2012

Opening Data: Galactic Rosetta Stone
Objectives: Reflect on movie
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Planet Orbits: Ellipses
Past Due:
Write your "Contact" Essay (hand it in today)

Fri., Apr. 6, 2012

Opening Data: Kepler Mission
Objectives: Reflect on movie
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Planet Orbits: Ellipses
Past Due:
Write your "Contact" Essay (hand it in today)

Thurs., Apr. 5, 2012

Opening Data: Goldilock Zone

Any Earth-like planets out there?
Objectives: Reflect on movie
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Write your "Contact" Essay (hand it in today)

Wed., Apr. 4, 2012

Opening Data: Exoplanets
Objectives: Analyze planetary physical data
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Movie: Contact (Finish)
Answer focus questions

Tues., Apr. 3, 2012

Opening Data: Outer (really outer) Solar 
System Stuff
 
Objectives: Analyze planetary physical dataAnnouncements: Remember cereal boxes?
Movie: Contact (Finish)
Answer focus questions

Mon., Apr. 2, 2012

Opening Data: Star size comparison
Objectives: Analyze planetary physical dataAnnouncements: Remember cereal boxes?
Finish: Planet Data & Planet Questions
Movie: Contact (continue)

Thurs., Mar. 22, 2012

Opening Data: Outer (really outer) Solar System Stuff

Objectives: Analyze planetary physical data
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Finish: Planet Data & Planet Questions
Movie: Contact (continue)

Wed., Mar. 21, 2012

2 hr Delay
Opening Data: None
Objectives: Analyze planetary physical data
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Finish: Planet Data & Planet Questions
Movie: Contact

Tues., Mar. 20, 2012

Opening Data: Dwarf planets

Objectives: Analyze planetary physical data
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Planet Data
Planet Questions

Mon., Mar. 19, 2012

Opening Data: Solar System Sizes
etc.
Objectives: Analyze planetary physical data
Announcements: Remember cereal boxes?
Planet Data
Planet Questions

Fri., Mar. 16, 2012

Opening Data: Solar events & cycles

• Sunspots
• Sunspot Cycle
• Solar Flares
• Classification
• Solar Prominences & Solar Filaments

Objectives:
Announcements:
Finish Planisphere Practice

Thurs., Mar. 15, 2012

Opening Data: Estimating locations
in the sky

Objectives: Practice skills in using
a homemade calculator to find your
way around the sky
Announcements: Please bring a
cereal* box (or 2, 3, 4...extra credit)
Table of Contents update
Finish Planisphere Practice

Wed., Mar. 14, 2012

Opening Data: Line of the Ecliptic
Objectives: Describe the paths of
sun, moon & planets. Finding planets
in the night sky
Announcements:
Finish Planisphere Practice

Tues., Mar. 13, 2012

Opening Data:

Objectives: Practice the use of your
planisphere
Announcements: Notebook table of contents
Finish Planisphere Practice