Fri 8/31/01
Night Sky Page 2
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/nightsky2.html
1. Discuss grading policy
2. Take "HOU Pretest"
3. Make "Uncle Al's Sky Wheel".
4. Read "Understanding the Starry Sky" and answer the questions on the last page. (this is due next class)
5. Bring back "University of California" consent forms next class.
Wed 9/05/01, Fri 9/07/01, Tue 9/11/01
Night Sky Page 2
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/nightsky2.html
These activites need to be done by next Tuesday, #1 needs to be done in class. #2 and #3 can be done at home.
1. Do "The Celestial Sphere".
2. Do "Using a Planisphere".
3. Do "Project 28: Making an Astrolabe".
Thu 9/13/01
*Per. 5 Meet in V222 to use computers (come to class first).
*Per. 8 Meet in B112 to use computers (come to class first).
Begin "Introduction to Image Processing" packet (this isn't online - you will be given handouts and will be using the HOU image processing software)
While I am gone next week, you will spend Monday and Wednesday in the computer labs after coming to class first for attendance. Friday you will be in the classroom, C129. I am passing out all materials you will need before I leave. Make sure you bring your notebooks to class. When you finish an activity, put it in the astronomy basket on the bookshelf in C129. All items are due on Tuesday 9/25 with no exceptions.
Mon 9/17/01, Wed 9/19/01
*Per. 5 Meet in V222 to use computers (come to class first).
*Per. 8 Meet in B112 to use computers (come to class first).
1. Finish "Introduction to Image Processing" packet.
2. If you finish early, read and answer the questions in "Astronomy without a Telescope".
Fri 9/21/01
1. Finish up any activities on this syllabus from the beginning of the year. The Macintosh computer in the back of room C129 has the HOU-IP software on it if you need it. You may need to turn the computer on twice before it comes on.
Night Sky Page 2
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/nightsky2.html
2. Read and answer the questions in "Astronomy without a Telescope".
Tue 09/25/01
Night Sky Page 2
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/nightsky2.html
1. Go over questions from last week.
2. Do "The Zodiac" - due next class
Thu 09/27/01
Observing the Night Sky
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/observing.html
1. Finish HOU packet in computer lab.
2. Do "Observing the Night Sky" - due next class
Mon 10/01/01
1. Finish up any previous activities you haven't completed.
2. Do "Sky Matching Exercise" - due next class
Wed 10/03/01
1. Do "The Celestial Sphere Review"
2. Test next class
Wed 10/10/01 1. Do "Celestial Sphere Test"
Fri 10/12/01
1. Go over radians and small angle approximation.
2. Do "RAAP Introductory Astronomy Lab" (measuring angles with fingers)
Tue 10/16/01
Night Sky Page 2
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/nightsky2.html
Make a crossstaff, pinhole protractor, quadrant and a nocturnal (night clock) - due next class as we will be using them
Mon 10/22/01
1. Discuss the quadrant, pinhole protractor, cross-staff.
2. Do a worksheet practicing the above by finding the height of the flagpole and the length of the hall (by two methods).
3. Test next class over astronomical tools.
Wed 10/24/01
Views
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views.html
1. Do "Powers of Ten" - need computer, due next class
2. Test on astronomical tools.
Fri 10/26/01
Views
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views.html
1. Do "Scientific Notation" - need computer, due next class
2. Choose groups for "Milky Way: Past and Present" project at http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/milkyframes.html. Read all sections of the webquest. Decide which roles each person in the group will have. Begin doing research if time.
Tue 10/30 Thu 11/1, Mon 11/5, Wed 11/7, Fri 11/9
"Milky Way: Past and Present" project at http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/milkyframes.html
Work on Milky Way projects. PLEASE remember to keep a journal with good notes as you do your research. See me if you have questions and TALK to the people in your group to see how they are doing. Per. 5 go to V222, Per. 8 go to B112
Wed 11/14, Fri 11/16
"Milky Way: Past and Present" project at http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/milkyframes.html
Work on Milky Way projects in the classroom. You need to bring your own posterboard, etc. See me if you have questions and TALK to the people in your group to see how they are doing. Make sure you go through the checklist in the evaluation to see if your project is complete. Projects are due Mon 11/26.
Tue 11/20
"Milky Way: Past and Present" project at http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/milkyframes.html
1. Quiz on powers of ten and scientific notation.
2. Work on Milky Way projects in the classroom. Go through the evaluation checklist and assign tasks that need to be completed to group members to work on over Thanksgiving. You will have no more class time to work on projects. Projects are due Mon 12/3.
Tue 11/27
"Views"
Do "Making a Cosmic Calendar"
Thu 11/29
"Views"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views.html
Do Types of Waves
You must use the applets at http://surendranath.tripod.com/Applets.html to do the worksheet. Look in the applet menu.
Mon 12/3
"Views"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views.html
1. Do "Wave Parameters". Use a physics book from the room next to the door or the online references given on the "Views" page. - pass in by the end of the period
2. Do Part 2 of Wave Theory of Light.
3. Finish and pass in "Cosmic Calendar" and "Types of Waves" from last week.
4. Put up Milky Way project posters on the walls and pass in myths, etc.
Wed 12/5, Fri 12/7
"Views"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views.html
Finish Wave Theory of Light - pass in by the end of class Friday.
Tue 12/11
"Views"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views.html
1. Go over experiments in "The Wave Theory of Light".
2. Write an essay on experiments that gave evidence for the wave nature of light (Young's Experiment,also include Huygen's principle and what you observed with water waves) and the particle nature of light (The Photoelectric Effect). Essays will be graded on science content, completeness, clarity and organization, grammar and spelling.
Thu 12/13
"Views p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views2.html
Do "The Electromagnetic Spectrum".
Mon 12/17
"Views p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views2.html
Do "Time Travel".
Wed 12/19 Grinch and Christmas Trivia Quiz
Wed 01/02
"Views p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views2.html
Do Scaling the Spectrum
Fri 01/04
"Views p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/views2.html
1. Movie and ten question multiple choice quiz.
2. Finish up "Time Travel" and "Scaling the Spectrum" and pass in.
Tue 01/08
"Stars"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star.html
1. Do "Star Life Cycles" - due next class
2. Do "The Flowchart of Stellar Evolution"- due next class
Thu 01/10, Mon 01/14 and day of Midterms
"Stars"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star.html
Do "The Life of a Star" - due the day of midterms
Wed 01/23, Fri 1/25, Tue 1/29
"Stars"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star.html
Per. 5 meets in V222 and Per. 8 meets in B112. You will be using the HOU-IP software that you used first quarter the week I was gone. The software is on the first two rows of computers in V222 and all but the last row in B112.
1. Do "Searching for Supernovae" (This includes 2 units which will be graded separately, "Techniques for Finding a Supernova Unit" and "Discover a Supernova Unit")
- due Tue
2. Do "Spectral Lines and the Bohr Atom" - due Tue
Thu 1/31
"Stars"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star.html
1. Movie and quiz on evolution of stars (per.5) or light and atoms (per. 8)
2. Do "Supernova Chemistry" - due Tue
Mon 2/4
"Stars p. 3"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star2.html
1. Movie and quiz on supernovae.
2. Do "Stellar Spectra Classification" - due Mon
Wed 2/6
"Stars p. 1"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star.html
Do "Identifying Lines in the Solar Spectrum"
Fri 2/8
"Stars p. 1"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star.html
1. Do "Student Worksheet: EM Spectrum - A Calculation Investigation"
2. Do "Bohr Atom"
Tue 2/12, Thu 2/14
"Stars p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star2.html
1. Do "Alien Eyes" as class on the LCD projection unit
2. Do "Parallax" - this is an in class lab
3. For homework do "Parallax" - this is reading and answering questions
Mon 2/25
Read Chapter 3: The Stars from Dinah Moche's "Astronomy" and answer the questions at the end.
Wed 2/27 Watch parts 1 and 2 of the "Infinite Universe" and take notes to use on a quiz after the movies.
Fri 3/1
"Stars p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star2.html>
Do "Why does the world gets dark so fast outside the circle of the campfire?"
Tue 3/5, Thu 3/7
"Stars p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star2.html
1. Do "Activity 8: Trigonometric Parallax".
2. Do Distances---Inverse Square Law through the section review and answer all review questions.
3. Do 3B, 3C and 3D "Magnitude" and "Magnitude and Parallax Review".
Mon 3/11
"Stars p. 3"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star3.html
Do "Spectral Sequence and the HR Diagram"
Wed 3/13
"Stars p. 3"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star3.html
1. Do "Spectral Classification"
2. Do "Distances to Stars in Leo". You will also need to use this HR diagram for this exercise. - finish next class if necessary
Mon 3/18, Wed 3/20, Fri 3/22
"Stars p. 3"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/star3.html
1. Finish any work from last week and pass it in.
2. Do "HR Diagram"
3. Do "Jewels of the Night"
4. Do "Cluster Color-Magnitude Diagrams and the Age of Stars"
Tue 3/26, Thu 3/28
*Per. 5 Meet in V222 to use computers (come to class first).
*Per. 8 Meet in B112 to use computers (come to class first).
"Cosmology"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/cosmology3.html
1. Finish up any packets you have left from the Star Unit. You can use this syllabus to see which ones we have done (The unit started Wed 1/23).
2. Do the research for the "Steady State vs Big Bang" essay. You may either use the provided sheets for the "Bibliography", "Summary", "Evidence" and "Conclusion" (you may need several of each) OR you are welcome to use your own paper as long as you include the required information. This essay is due Friday, April 5.
Mon 4/1 - Thu 4/11
"Galaxies"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/galaxies.html
1. Do Galaxies packet and Galactic Inquiry.
2. Finish any activities for Stars Unit.
3. Movie the day before vacation.
Mon 4/22-Fri 4/26
"Cosmology p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/cosmology4.html
1. Do "The Doppler Effect". - due Friday
2. Do "The Expanding Universe". - due Wednesday
3. Get data for "Hubble Law Lab, the Short Version" by Monday.
Tue 4/30, Thu 5/2
"Cosmology p. 2"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/cosmology4.html
1. Finish "Hubble Law Lab, the Short Version" - due Thu.
2. Do "The Cepheid Yardstick" - due Monday
3. Read Cosmology p. 1 through Cosmology p. 4 and do the Section review. - due Monday
Mon 5/6, Wed 5/8, Fri 5/10
"Cosmology p. 3"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/cosmology5.html
1. Do "The Standard Model".
2. Do "Particle Soup: Nucleosynthesis"
3. Write a one page paper on quasars - due Tuesday.
Tue 5/14
"Cosmology p. 3"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/cosmology5.html
1. Read Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation through the Section review and answer the questions.
2. Read Fates of the Universe through the Section review and answer the questions.
3. All cosmology papers will be due on Thursday and you will be receiving a take home test due on the following Monday.
Thu 5/16
"Astrobiology"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/astrobiology.html
1. Seniors only will be doing this webquest until the end of the year. WebQuest: X-Treme Files. You will be presenting to the class on Wed. May 29.
2. Open-note test on cosmology.
Mon 5/20
"Astrobiology"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/astrobiology.html
Do "What is Life?"
Wed 5/22
"Astrobiology"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/astrobiology.html
1. Movie on the search for ET life and quiz.
2. Read "Life Beyond the Earth" up through the section review and answer the questions.
Fri 5/24, Wed 5/29, Fri 5/31, Tue 6/4, Thu 6/6, Mon 6/10
Extra resources for astrobiology can be found at:
"Astrobiology"
http://www.oocities.org/lewiston_stargazer/astrobiology.html
You will be given a packet of activities to complete on astrobiology. They include:
1. Designer Genes for a Designer World
2. Who Can Live Here? - Life in extreme environments - see Search for Habitable Worlds to help with some of the questions.
3. A Case of the Wobbles: Finding Extrasolar Planets - here is a nice tutorial if you need more info.
4. Interstellar Real Estate: Location... - Defining the Habitable Zone
5. The Rare Earth - Just how rare is Earth-like complex life?
6. The Drake Equation - see also this Drake Equation calculator.
Your final project will be a poster or model of an alien. You must define its environment on a planet or moon within our Solar System and explain how specific aspects of that organism make it suitable for that environment (more specifics will be given at a later date). This is due the last day of class. The day of final exams you will be given a questionnaire and posttest for the HOU image processing software.