Jan 5 - Jan 22 - Objects in the Solar System
Post date: Dec 17, 2014 10:02:16 PM
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Warm-up (* = Advanced class did not do)
1/5 - Make a Venn diagram comparing Nuclear Fusion with Nuclear Fission. (SS pgs. 78-79, dictionary)
1/6 - Make a Venn diagram comparing Radiation to Convection. (SS pgs. 80-81)
1/7 - Write down 3 things you learned from the rap.
sunspots (SS pg. 82)
solar flare (SS pgs. 82-83)
prominences (SS pgs. 82-83)
astronomical unit (SS pg. 88)
terrestrial planets (SS pg. 88)
asteroid belt (SS pgs. 116, 122)
Gas Giant (SS pg. 104)
planetary ring (SS pg. 106)
Dwarf planet (SS pgs. 116-119)
Kuiper Belt (SS pgs. 116-119)
Comet (SS pg. )
Oort Cloud (SS pg. 121)
Advanced
1/8* - Make a Venn diagram comparing Period of Rotation to Period of Revolution. (SS pg. 90)
1/9* - Make a Venn diagram comparing prograde to retrograde rotation. (SS pg. 90)
1/12* - Make a Venn diagram comparing terrestrial and gas giant planets. (SS pgs. 88, 104)
1/15 - Explain your reasons for why you think Pluto should or shouldn't be a planet.
1/16* - Make a Venn diagram comparing the asteroid belt to the kuiper belt. (SS pgs. 122, 116-119)
1/20* - Make a Venn diagram comparing an asteroid to a comet. (SS pgs. 120-122)
1/21* - Read "Mission to a Comet" in ScienceWorld Nov. 17, 2014. What is the mission of Rosetta? How long has this mission been going on? What do they hope to learn?
Objectives
Planet Poster due 1/14
SS U2 Lessons 3, 4, 5 due by 1/20
Final draft of Exploravision project due 1/22
Due
SS U2L3 - The Sun - 1/7
Slice of the Sun - 1/7
SS U2L4 - The Terrestrial Planets - 1/12
SS U2L5 - The Gas Giant Planets - 1/14
SS U2L6 - Small Bodies in the SS - 1/20
Planet Cornucopia - 1/21
Table filled out - 1/13
Planets Drawn to Scale - 1/15
Part 2 - 1/20
Part 3 - 1/21
Describe the structure, energy production and energy transport in the sun.
Recognize the effects of the 11 year cycle of solar activity on the sun.
Describe the properties of the terrestrial planets.
Describe the common properties of the gas giants.
Compare each of the planets to Earth.
Compare and contrast the smaller bodies in the solar system.
Websites
Your Online Museum Of The Universe - Sun.org
The Sun: A Virtual Tour - climate.nasa.gov - Interactive showing activity, inner layers and future of the sun.
NOVA: Secrets of the Sun (2012) 53 mins - pbs.org
Virtual Plasma Ball - retrolamp.com
Virtual Lava Lamp - plasmalamp.com
NOVA ScienceNOW: Can we Make it to Mars? (2011) 53 mins - pbs.org
NOVA: Origins of the Solar System (2011) 13 mins - pbs.org
NOVA: Pluto Files (2010) 53 mins - pbs.org
From Sun to Oort: A solar photon's journey (2:36 mins) - youtube.com - Rapping the solar system.
Astronomy 121: The Formation and Evolution of the Solar System - abyss.uoregon.edu - Written lectures to an introductory class taught at University of Oregon.
Astronomy 161: The Solar System - csep10.phys.utk.edu - The Solar System introductory class notes taught at the University of Tennessee.