Astronomy/Earth Science was added in the 2022/2023 school year.
Astronomy topics:
UNIT 0) Lab Safety and Equipment
Unit 1) The Sun
Unit 2) Light
Unit 3) Distance in Space
Unit 4) A Star’s Life
Unit 5) Life and Death of the Biggest Stars
Unit 6) Planet Earth
Unit 7) Space Travel to the moon
Unit 8) Our Neighbors, Venus and Mercury
Unit 9) Mars: The Robot Planet with signs of life
Unit 10)Asteroids and Jovian Moons (moons of jupiter)
Unit 11) Jupiter and Saturn
Unit 12) Ice Giants: Uranus and Neptune
Unit 13) What’s in Outer Space
Unit 14) Stories of the Universe
Unit 15) Extraterrestrial Life
Astronomy Wisconsin/NGS standards
WI
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.10
By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
NGSS
HS-ESS1-6
Apply scientific reasoning and evidence from ancient Earth materials, meteorites, and other planetary surfaces to construct an account of Earth’s formation and early history. Emphasis is on using available evidence within the solar system to reconstruct the early history of Earth, which formed along with the rest of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. Examples of evidence include the absolute ages of ancient materials (obtained by radiometric dating of meteorites, moon rocks, and Earth’s oldest minerals), the sizes and compositions of solar system objects, and the impact cratering record of planetary surfaces.
NGSS
HS-ESS1-4
Use mathematical or computational representations to predict the motion of orbiting objects in the solar system. Emphasis is on Newtonian gravitational laws governing orbital motions, which apply to human-made satellites as well as planets and moons. Mathematical representations for the gravitational attraction of bodies and Kepler’s Laws of orbital motions should not deal with more than two bodies, nor involve calculus.
NGSS
HS-ESS1-3
Communicate scientific ideas about the way stars, over their life cycle, produce elements. Emphasis is on the way nucleosynthesis, and therefore the different elements created, varies as a function of the mass of a star and the stage of its lifetime. Details of the many different nucleosynthesis pathways for stars of differing masses are not assessed.