Astronomy - Fall Assignments

Here are ALL of our presentations and Prezis for the semester!

 

Note:  Google Slide presentations are listed as attached files.  Prezis are listed as links in the text body, here:

 

 

 

Here are all astronomy QOTD presentations, from August through December 2017.

Here are our notes for the next few days:    The order is:

 

3.1 Properties of Light (pdf)

3.2 The Electromagnetic Spectrum (Google Slides)

Prezi:  Wein's Law and Blackbodies

Here is the reading and questions for you to answer on the "How Light Works" article.

 

Article file is attached.

 

FIRST:  Carefully read the entire article!
THEN:  On a separate piece of paper, answer the following questions in full sentences!:

1. What is “undulatory theory?”  Given what you know about radiative energy and how it is transferred, how did Huygens misunderstand the nature of light?
2. Why was Newton correct when he described light as corpuscles or particles? (Hint – you may need to read to page 3 of this article to arrive at the answer!)
3. Imagine you are describing Thomas Young’s “double slit experiment?” to your bright 10 year old cousin, and she asks you draw a sketch of it.  What would it look like?  Draw this sketch and give it a captain to explain what is going on.
4. Why is light also referred to as electromagnetic radiation?
5. What are photons?  When is a photon ejected from an atom?
6. What did Bohr propose to make sense of the fact that electrons do NOT fall into their nucleus?
7. What is wave-particle duality?  Why do YOU think this concept might be confusing?
8. What do YOU think might cause an electron to jump from its base orbital level to a higher orbital level?  What causes the electron to drop to its base level again?
9. What is the main factor that causes the photons emitted by an atom to radiate a certain color?
10. When did the universe “light up?”  WHY?

Here is your study guide for your Chapter One test tomorrow.

 

Know the contributions of the following astronomers:

• Eudoxus Aristarchus        Eratosthenes
• Ptolemy Pythagoras        Aristotle
• Galileo          Copernicus        Brahe
• Thomas Diggs and Giordano Bruno
• William of Occam

Know the following terms, places and contributions:

• Heliocentricism vs Geocentricism
• The Almagest;        Retrograde Motion
• Epicycles;                Parallax
• Stonehenge;           Occam’s Razor
• Tychonic Solar System
• Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
• Elliptical vs Circular Orbits

Here is your worksheet on calculating force, acceleration and mass.  NOTE:  The slides of this attachment ARE the problems on your worksheet, but in PowerPoint form (long story).

 

 

Remember - we need to speed through two chapters in the next 3.5 weeks! You'll be taking notes from online presentations at home, and at school we'll doing the enforcement/enrichment work in class OR grabbing more notes OR both.

 

Here is the presentation we'll be taking notes on for in-class and for homework.  MAKE SURE TO COMPLETE YOUR NOTES TONIGHT if we don't finish them today.  You'll be using the definitions for Newton's Laws of Motion to create a Foldable in class tomorrow.

Here is the Google Presentation for our C-Notes today:  Temperature Conversion

Thanksgiving break homework:

Here is the Prezi for your notes on Galileo and the evidence he provided to prove Copernicus' heliocentric Solar System.

 

Two worksheets: 

Review - Kepler's Laws  (NOTE - You can cross out the last problem on the back side.)

Text half-page WS 1.3 "Astronomy in the Renaissance," pp 47-54  (NOTE - this file is for two half-pages with the same question.  Just do one side.)

Here are the Prezi presentation for your notes on Brahe and Kepler. Your homework is to complete your notes from where we ended as a class to the end of this Prezi.

 

 

Also:  Complete the Worksheet Packets for Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.   Available in class.

 

QUIZ #4 - 

 

Topics covered - Seasons; Planetary Configurations; History of Astronomy - Caves des Lascaux through Ptolemy

 

Google Slides files are attached for Seasons, Asterisms and Planetary Configurations.

 

All Prezis for info:  

Here is the Prezi presentation for our notes today on History of Astronomy Part II:

 

Here are the two Prezi presentations we've been using for our CNotes of the past couple of days:

 

 

Aldebaran - Taurus' "red eye," part of the Winter Triangle.

 

I located it on 10/16/17 at 10:30 pm, at 86 degrees azimuth, and approximately 30-50 degrees altitude.

 

Record these measurements Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday or Sunday, for a total of 5 days.

 

Here are the terms you need to know for the Vocabulary Quiz you are taking tomorrow.

 

NOTE:  the attached file is a double block of the same terms.  There are 24 terms per block, and the quiz is for 15 of those terms.

Here is our presentation for the "Locating Planets" CNotes we took today.

Here is the Google Slides presentation for Seasons.

NOTEBOOK CHECK #2

Here are our notes for Asterisms.  Remember to carefully copy the asterism diagrams into your notes!  You will be asked to identify them for a future quiz.

"Words Ya Gotta Know"

 

Create a Cornell Notes-style outline of the attached article IN YOUR SCIENCE NOTEBOOK.  Make sure to emphasize vocabulary, and illustrate with diagrams or simple sketches.  Minimum two pages.  Summary is at least two sentences.

You have a quiz on Tuesday on Constellation Identification.  It will be worth 30-35 points.

 

You have flash cards which you made in class.  You also have a link to the Presentation we viewed today in class for a quiz review.  Practice, practice practice!

 

You will need to be able to identify 10/15 constellations - along with their season -  when you see them, and you will have a choice of 3 of the final 5 constellations to draw.

 

Constellations:  Crossword and Wordsearch.

 

Available only in paper in class.  Sorry.  :-/

 

Complete the crossword using your textbook, or if you don't have it handy, use google search to find a list of constellation names and their meanings.

 

 

Attached you will find the two documents with (1) the Zodiac constellations and (2) three major constellations viewable now.

 

You will -

1.  Cut out each constellation and paste it to one side of an index card.

2.  Either cut out and paste or write the name of the constellation on the opposite side of the index card.

 

HINT - Cut out and paste each constellation one-by-one.  If you cut them all out and separate all their names from their images you will not know which name to paste to which image!

Here are our notes for Along the Ecliptic.  

 

NOTE:  Make sure to add the info (constellation seasons) from the last slide to your Zodiac Constellation flashcards!  The seasons will go on the side with the constellation name.

Here is our presentation for "The Celestial Sphere."

Here are today's notes about Light Years.  

 

A paper copy will be stapled into our Astronomy Master Science Notebook in class as well.

Here are our Google Slides presentation for Big Numbers - Astronomical Units.

 

 

Astronomy Syllabus - Read, sign (you and your parent or guardian) and return the tear-off part of the last page!

 

If I don't receive it by Friday, I will call your parents.

Textbook Scavenger Hunt WS Packet

 

We began this in class last Thursday, 9/1/2017.  Please complete it at home if you haven't turned it in yet, and return by Friday.

 

NOTE:  You need the costa-question-starters0.pdf page 3 ONLY
              You will need the 2017-18 NB Calendar.docx.pdf page 1 (August-September) ONLY

 

Page Order:

ANOTHER NOTE:  I am writing up this page order from memory, and if your page order is slightly different from my page order, DON'T FRET.  Just make sure that when you create your Table of Contents you reflect YOUR order in YOUR Table.