5.04

1. 📵 Put your cell phone, headphones, ear buds, and/or beats in the box or your bag.

2. 📓 Pick-up your notebook from your class's box on the west (➡) side of the classroom.

3. 💺 Find your assigned seat.

4. 📓 Open your notebook to page 16 and answer this question for ✍️ Bell Ringer #31.

5. Update your 🗓️ calendar for the week on page 5-8.

In Class:

A. I can use mathematical or computational representations (Kepler's and Newton's laws) to predict and explain the motion of orbiting objects in the solar system.

☑️ Use data in order to identify patterns about the movement of objects in space.

• • Lesson: Kepler's 1st Law - Law of Ellipses (page 193-194 in your notebook, on Canvas)

☑️ Understand and model Kepler’s laws.

• • On a white board:

    1. What is the shape of an orbit?

    2. What is special/ unique about a circle?

    3. In your simulation did your measurements represent a “perfect circle”?

    4. In what shape do planets orbit?

  • Kepler's 1st Law: The Law of Ellipses

• • • 📓 Notes on page 194