Google Drive Folder (link) Online textbook (link) Classroom (link)
Test correction policy
Course Expectations (link) - what/why/how - FORM - Weekly Reflection
Astro Journal blank (link)
online planetariums http://www.astroviewer.com/interactive-night-sky-map.php
Astronomy Picture of the Day https://science.nasa.gov/apod/
Sun's position in sky in Boston https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/usa/boston
Sun's posiition on the Celestial Sphere.
https://in-the-sky.org/solarsystem.php?utm_source=gemini
DUE DATE AstroJournal Entries (P.O.G. Cover Sheet)
10/5 10 entries including sunset and sunrise
11/2 10 entries including phases of the moon (link)
12/7 10 entries including summer/fall constellations
1/5 10 entries including winter constellations
2/22 10 entries including planets
3/22 10 entried including spring constellations
5/24 10 final entries
TESTS & PROJECTS
9/24 Sun position in the sky
10/19 Constellation Project - 88 Constellations - Samples
10/20 Celestial sphere and the Moon
11/20 Distance, Angle, and Time
12/21 History and Motion
2/11 Light and Stars
4/9 AstroChemistry
5/12 Galaxies and Cosmology
6/10 NASA project
Quizzes - Graded out of 20
9/11 Coordinate Matching
9/18 zodiac quiz
9/25 zodiac quiz with symbols
10/2 Fall Sky quiz 1
10/9 draw out moon picture
10/16 Fall Sky quiz 2
10/23 Given the name, write out abv and meaning for 20 constellations
10/30 draw the first two columns of 20 constellations
11/6 draw the second two columns of the 20 constellations
12/1 Draw out 20 constellations
12/8 identify all 20 constellations
1/5 draw out all 20 constellations
1/26 winter circle quiz 1 - label 6 constellations and 8 stars
2/1 winter circle quiz 2 - dots, no lines
2/9 winter circle quiz 3 - blank page
3/2 winter circle quiz 4 - write out a description of the 8 stars
3/16 planet symbol quiz
4/6 constellations and stars quiz 1
4/13 constellations and stars quiz 2
5/4 Constellations and stars and types and seasons quiz
5/11 big dipper 7 star quiz
5/18 Orion 7 star quiz
Friday Reading
9/4 Flat Earthers Admit Defeat
9/11 Two World Maps
9/18 John Harrison and the Longitude problem
9/25 Stonehenge Article - questions
10/2 Southern Constellations - questions
10/9 The Moon's Farside - questions
10/18 Classic Sky Guies - questions
10/23 Defining Time - Quesitons
Homework Assignment
10/23 - no homework due
10/30 - hw 6 - solutions
hw 7 - solutions
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