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.

12/9 - Make a Venn diagram comparing solar flares to prominences. (IS pg. 480)

12/10 - Look at light sources with a spectroscope to answer the following questions:

1. Look at the white light bulb. What colors do you see? Are there any gaps in color?

2. Look at the fluorescent lights in the room? What colors do you see? How do these colors produce white light? What do the stripes of colors tell us about gases in the tubes?

3. Look at the blue LED light box. Why is it difficult to look at LED lights very long?

12/11 - What are auroras? How are they caused?

12/12 - The average distance from the Earth to the sun is an Astronomical Unit (AU) or about 150,000,000 km. Mars is about 1.52 AU from the sun.

• 1. How many kilometers is Mars from the sun? (IS pg. 471)

  2. A light minute is about 18,000,000 km. How many light-minutes is Mars from the sun?

12/13 - What do you think are the hardest challenges of going to Mars and back? Is it worth it? Should people go to Mars?

12/17 - 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)

12/19 - 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

1/6 - Make a Venn diagram comparing Jupiter and Saturn. (IS pgs. 491-495)

1/8 - What types of things can be recycled? How do you recycle? How can you reduce your use of things that can't be recycled and are not biodegradeable?

1/9 - 1) Read through the Planetary Properties Comparison Assignment and highlight or underline the main things you will do in each of the three parts. 2) Write a summary of what you will do for each part. 3) Look at the 90-100% column of the rubric. Put question marks next to any expectations that you don't understand.

1/13 - Predict the weather for this week. nullschool.net

1/14 - After watching the commercial, answer the following question in the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning way: What happened to the cat?

Make a Venn diagram comparing Uranus and Neptune.

Write down 3 things you learned or are reminded of from the rap.