The Solar System
Post date: Nov 30, 2018 9:59:30 PM
Big Question: Why don’t we travel to Venus (it’s closer than Mars)?
Assignments
12/6 - Slice of the Sun
1/8 - Planet Cornucopia - Rubric
12/21 - Parts 1 and 2
Objectives
Describe how the Solar System formed.
Explain how the sun produces light and energy.
Describe sunspot cycles of the sun that can have an effect on earth.
Use ratios, proportions, or a scale factor to determine the scale sizes of the planets.
Display correct and relevant facts about each planet in the solar system.
Create planets that are the correct relative size to one another.
Warm-ups
12/3 - What is the Sun? Make a list of properties and observations that help answer this question.
The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas music video (2:40) and the correction song, The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma (1:56) - They Might be Giants music videos at schooltube.com.
12/4 - Make a Venn diagram comparing solar flares to prominences. (IS pg. 480)
12/6 - Look at light sources with a spectroscope to answer the following questions:
Compare white Flourescent light tube and a white Incandescent bulb. What are the main differences between the two? Why do you think flourescent lights produce the same brightness of light with less energy?
What specific colors do the blue LED lights produce?
12/7 - Tape the Abbreviation & Symbols list to the back cover of your notebook. Pick out 6 abbreviations you could use when taking notes or summarizing warm-up questions.
12/10 - Mars is 1.52 AU from the sun. How many kilometers is Mars from the sun? (IS pg. 471)
12/11 - Summarize the expectations for Proficient for the 3 assessment areas of the Planet Cornucopia Rubric.
12/12 - What do you think are the hardest challenges of going to Mars and back? Is it worth it? Should people go to Mars?
12/13 - Make a Venn diagram comparing terrestrial and gas giant planets. (IS pgs. 482-497)
12/14 - Venus is so similar to Earth that it is called a sister planet. It's also closer to Earth than Mars. Why are we considering taking people to Mars rather than Venus? (IS pgs. 485-487)
12/17 - How are asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites different? (IS pg. 503)
12/18 - What would a model of the solar system be like if it used the same scale for distance as it does for planet size? (Sun 1.5 m, Earth 1.35 cm) - To Scale: The Solar System - youtube.com
12/19 - Make a Venn diagram comparing Jupiter and Saturn. (IS pgs. 491-495)
12/20 - Make a Venn diagram comparing Uranus and Neptune.
1/7 - From Comets: Crash Course Astronomy #21 - youtube.com answer the following questions:
1. What is a comet made of?
2. What is in the two tails?
3. Where do they come from? Short period vs. Long period comets
4. How do we know? Vega 1, Giotto, Rosetta most recent
Write down 3 things you learned or are reminded of from the rap.
From Sun to Oort: A solar photon's journey (2:36 mins) - youtube.com
1/8 - Make a Venn diagram comparing Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. (IS pgs. 499-500)
Keywords
Constellation
Ecliptic
Plasma (state of matter)
Sunspot
Solar Flare
Spectrograph or Spectrometer (Old ES pgs. 570-571)
Astronomical Unit (IS pg. )
Planet
Dwarf Planet
Terrestrial Planet
Gas Giant
Asteroid Belt (IS pgs. 499, 502
Meteoroid (IS pg. 503)
Meteor
Meteorite
Retrograde Rotation
Density (IS pgs. 357, 566-567, 622)
Planetary Ring
Tilt of Axis
Kuiper Belt object (IS pg. 500)
Oort Cloud
Comets (IS pg. 501)
Websites
Uncle Al's Sky Wheels - Lawrencehallofscience.org - Paper star finder we assemble in class.
How to use a star finder - youtube.com
Planetarium - neave.com - App that works like a star finder.
Color Vision - phet.colorado.edu - Interactive shows how red, green and blue light can be mixed to get any color.
Blackbody Spectrum - phet.colorado.edu - Interactive shows the relationship between color and temperature of a light source.
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram Explorer - astro.unl.edu - Interactive H-R diagram.
The Doppler effect and red shift of galaxies - educationscotland - Animations describing redshift and the Doppler Effect.
Gravity and Orbits - phet.colorado.edu - Simulation demonstrating how mass and distance between objects effects the force of gravity.
My Solar System - phet.colorado.edu - Configurable simulation showing gravitational relationships and motion among multiple objects.
Gravity Pitch - explorelearning.com
Solar System Explorer Gizmo - explorelearning.com
Sun
The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas music video (2:40) and the correction song, The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma (1:56) - They Might be Giants music videos at schooltube.com.
The Sun: A Virtual Tour - climate.nasa.gov - Interactive showing activity, inner layers and future of the sun.
"Northern Lights Relaxation" Alaska Real-Time Video 2 HOURS - youtube.com
NASA UHD Video: Stunning Aurora Borealis from Space - youtube.com
Aurora Forecast - gi.alaska.edu
Planets and Planetoids
Nine Planets - Solar System Tour - nineplanets.org
Planets - windows2universe.org
Planets - science.nationalgeographic.com - Last paragraph has a description of the most important discoveries by space probes.
Nasa - nasa.gov - Everything space related.
Solar System Exploration - Highlights: Planets, Moons, Hypothetical Planet X
Missions by Target - A way to find what space probes visited a planet or moon.
SPACE-Facts.com - Interesting facts about space. Highlights: Ceres Facts, Pluto Facts, Makemake Facts, Eris Facts, Haumea Facts.
When Is a Planet Not a Planet? - theatlantic.com
THESE ARE THE BEST PHOTOS OF PLUTO ANY HUMAN HAS EVER SEEN - popsci.com
NOVA: Pluto Files (2010) 53 mins - pbs.org
To Scale: The Solar System - youtube.com - On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
From Sun to Oort: A solar photon's journey 2:36 mins - youtube.com - Rapping the solar system.
NOVA ScienceNOW: Can we Make it to Mars? (2011) 53 mins - pbs.org
NOVA: Origins of the Solar System (2011) 13 mins - pbs.org
Asteroid Watch - jpl.nasa.gov - News on dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, meteoroids and space junk.
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.
Famous Craters
Terrestrial Impact Craters - solarviews.com
Impressive Craters on Earth - universetoday.com
Impact Crater Database - passc.net - Impact crater images.
Asteroid Impact Craters on Earth as Seen From Space - wired.com