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- Notes for this unit
- Learning objectives
- Understand how the universe evolved and what evidence exists for the current models of the universe
- Understand the relationship between Earth's rotation, longitude, and time zones.
- Calculate time zones
- Give evidence of Earth's rotation
- Explain how asteroids comets, and meteorites affect the larger objects in the solar system.
- Jigsaw - Explain how relative positions of the Earth, moon and Sun affect Phenomena observed from Earth
- Explain the cause of the seasons: Know when earth is close to the sun and far from it.
- Give evidence of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun
- Explain the differences between the seasons in terms of:
- Their dates
- Length of daylight
- Location of the sun's zenith
- Angle of sunlight
- Length of shadow
- Interpret path's of the Sun on hemisphere and diagrams
- Compare and contrast heliocentric and geocentric models of the solar system.
- Explain Kepler's laws
- Construct ellipses, calculate eccentricity of an orbital path.
- Explain why the sun shines.
- Read and interpret H-R diagram
- Jigsaw: Explain the life cycle of a star in terms of:
- Size
- Temperature
- Luminosity
- Vocabulary
- Assignments
- Big Bang Read Discuss Rephrase Record
- p.40#1-6 (Big Bang / Doppler Questions)
- p.44#7-15 (Structure of the Universe Questions)
- p.45#16-23 (H-R Diagram Questions)
- Stars Questions
- p.47#17-24-29 (Evolution of the solar system)
- p.51#30-39 (Solar System Data Table ESRT)
- p.51#40-50 (Eccentricity)
- p.65#15-19 (solar system models)
- P.68#20-27 (Evidence of rotation)
- p.70#28-40 (Effects of rotation)
- p.74#41-57 (Earth's revolution
- Earth's Seasons Worksheet
- Labs
- Videos
- Reviewing Characteristics of Stars Chart YouTube | My Big Campus
- Construction of an ellipse (Calculating eccentricity) YouTube | My Big Campus
- Picture of Jupiter and its moons taken by holding my phone up to a telescope
- Animations / Interactive
- Deep Time
- Doppler Effect
- Doppler Sound YouTube | My Big Campus
- Cosmic Background Radiation
- Celestial Sphere Interactive
- Celestial Sphere Interactive 2 (Star Trails)
- Celestial Object Size YouTube | My Big Campus
- Formation of the solar system YouTube | My Big Campus
- Jupiter in Motion YouTube | My Big Campus
- Coriolis Effect YouTube | My Big Campus
- Foucault Pendulum YouTube | My Big Campus
- Earth Rotates YouTube
- Seasonal Changes
- Orbital Velocity
- Kepler's Laws YouTube | My Big Campus
- Retrograde Motion Model
- Retrograde Motion Model 2
- Apparent motion of the Sun
- Animation 1
- Animation 2
- Earth's Tilt
- Lunar Formation YouTube | My Big Campus
- Lunar Phases
- Eclipses
- Solar Eclipse YouTube | My Big Campus
- Hawaii Eclipse YouTube | My Big Campus
- Bay of Fundy YouTube | My Big Campus
- Cause of the Tides
- Tide Cycle
- Review
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