Astronomy - Spring (Period P/5) Assignments

Here is a copy of your Planet Presentation packet.  We start presenting on Wednesday with Mercury, no exceptions.  READ THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY!!!  Remember you have the weekend, plus Monday and Tuesday in school to put together an awesome presentation.

Here are your two presentations for notes on 7.1 Components of the Solar System and 7.2 Origin of the Solar System.  Your homework is to copy these presentations as notes.  

 

I urge you to figure out ways to restate the information, not just copy it as it is.  You will remember more if you "wrestle" with your info!

 

We will have an open notes quiz (about 5-7 questions per presentation) on Tuesday, 5/29/18.

Here is the presentation for our project:  Diagram of a Sun-Like Star.

 

Draw.

Label.

COLOR.

 

This diagram is worth up to 20 Project/Model points.

Here is a copy of the directions for you next big project:  Chapter 11 - The Sun Jigsaw Lesson!

 

Attached is also the rubric.

Also attached is a presentation on how to MAKE a decent presentation.

Also attached is a google sheets Class/Period breakdown of who has what topic.

 

Remember:  You'll be teaching the class a mini-lesson on your chosen topic.  You'll need:

 

- A presentation, like google slides or Prezi

- A video, demo or model to help people understand your lesson

- Some kind of classwork to help reinforce what you've just taught

- A quiz to give the class at the end of your lesson.  The quiz could be a paper quiz, a kahoot, a jeopardy game...

 

If you need copies, you MUST give me your original paper NO LATER THAN the day BEFORE your presentation!!!!  

 

We start teaching each other about the Sun on Thursday, 4/3/2018.  I expect to get through 2-3 lessons a day.

Below you will find the Google Slides presentation for the first section of our new chapter - The Sun, Our Star.  We start taking these notes in class on Wednesday, 4/25/18 and you will complete them for homework for 4/26/28.  We will be taking a short, 5-7 question open notes quiz on Thursday to keep you accountable for these notes!  8-)

Here is your study guide for our Chapter Test:  The Moon, which you will be taking on Tuesday, 4/24/18.  Note that this file is for two half-sheets.

Here is the presentation for the diagram we started working on in class today:

 

Lunar Phases.

 

You need - BOTH lunar "circles," all labels, sun rays, title

 

 

NOTE: THIS IS NOT HOMEWORK; WE ARE WORKING ON THIS DIAGRAM IN CLASS.

Here are the Google Slides files for our current chapter:  The Moon.

 

Your homework is to create Cornell-style notes from each of these files.  To keep you accountable, a short, open-note quiz will be given on the first day back from Spring Break.

 

Here is the text questions sheet for 6.1 Description of the Moon, 6.2 Structure of the Moon, 6.3 Motions of the Moon, 6.4 Origin and History of the Moon, and 6.6 Tides, as well.

 

If you have kept up with the textbook work in class, you should only need to complete Text 6.6 Tides, and maybe not even that.  8-)

 

We have also watched Bill Nye - The Moon and Birth of the Moon in class.

Here is a link to the video we watched together in class, along with the worksheet to go along with it.  Please finish both the video and worksheet for homework.  We have a guest speaker on this subject on Tuesday!

 

Here is your study guide for your Chapter 5 - Earth as a Planet quiz on Monday. 

NOTE:  Your quiz has been moved to Monday!

I will give you a paper copy of the guide Thursday in school.

EARTH’S MAGNETIC POLES – ARGUMENT AND EVIDENCE.

Oh no!  Your crazy cousin is at it again.  (He never was too bright.) He’s telling everyone he knows that the magnetic poles of the Earth will reverse and all life as we know it will END!  He’s got the whole family in an uproar! What an idiot.

Fortunately, you have solid evidence – in the form of the articles you have read, and your textbook - that your crazy cousin is wrong, wrong, wrong!  

Your assignment is to write a one-to-two page letter to your crazy cousin and tell him that although he’s correct that Earth’s magnetic poles do reverse, he’s got all the details mixed up.  

Cover in your letter -
- Earth’s history of magnetic pole reversal.
- Evidence we have that pole reversals occur and how often.
- Who tracks the movement of the magnetic North Pole and why.
- Where the pole may end up in the next few decades.
- What happens at Earth’s core to create our magnetic field?
- How long these reversals take and what happens during them.
- Why we don’t have to worry, we’re really quite safe!

Neatness counts.  Clarity counts. Spelling and grammar count.  Back up your explanations with the evidence you find in your articles and textbook.  40 points.

Here are the two latest Google Slides presentations for our astronomy class:

 

5.6  Earth's Magnetic Field

 

5.7 Earth's Atmosphere & Coriolis

 

 

Attached you will find two Google Slides presentations on Earth's Atmosphere:  

 

(1)  5.5 Earth's Atmosphere - Comp & Origin

(2)  5.5 Structure, Greenhouse Effect

 

Your classroom assignment is to create Cornell-style notes in your science notebook.  Complete what you don't finish in the classroom for homework tonight, and we will create a model of Earth's atmospheric layers tomorrow in class.

Attached are the Google Slides presentations for our new unit, Chapter 5 -Earth as a Planet:

 

5.1 - Earth as a Planet

5.2(A) - Earth's Plate Tectonics

5.2(b) - Seismic Waves and Radioactive Decay

READ sections 5.1-5.3 of your textbook,

ANSWER Review Questions, p 173, #1-10

Attached you will find the Google Slides presentation for the first section of our new unit - Earth As a Planet.  Why study Earth in Astronomy?!??

 

PERIOD 3!!!  REMEMBER THAT THESE NOTES ARE YOUR HOMEWORK!!!

Doppler Shift Model/Lab

 

Please see attached the "Doppler Shift Model/Lab" lab paper & instructions.  You will also need a blank piece of paper on which to draw your bar spectrum, as well, along with a strip (about 2-3 inches wide) of blank paper which will work as your light wave model once you pleat (fold it into zig-zags) it.

 

This lab counts for 30 total points Projects/Models/Labs category.

 

NOTE:  YOU SHOULD HAVE TURNED THIS IN ALREADY. 

Any submission after Monday will lose 50% of its final score.

 

 

Here is the study guide for your test on Monday, 2/5/2018.  Text sections 3.3, 3.4 & 3.5 are covered.

 

First, sign out the ChromeBook next to your roster number.

 

Part 1:

Open up the Prezi, Prezi - Intro to Spectroscopy

Take Cornell-Style notes from the Prezi on Spectroscopy.  Don't forget a title, date and summary!

At the end of your notes, using colored pencils, crayons or your own markers, sketch a Continuous Spectrum, Emission Spectrum, and  Absorption Spectrum.

 

Part 2:

You should have received a "block" of terms related to atoms, light, spectroscopy and the Doppler Effect.  In your notebook, create a glossary for these terms.  Using your notes, textbook and the internet, write descriptions or definitions IN YOUR OWN WORDS for each term.  DO NOT LOSE THIS VOCABULARY BLOCK.  You will be using it later (probably on Monday) to create a word web.

Here is the link to our article you began reading today in class:

 

 

Here are our text questions for 3.3 Atoms, pp 101-103, due today in class.

NOTE: An electronic file copy is attached.

 

Newton's Laws of Motion Model and Demonstration

For the next three days you will either work alone or with a team of NO MORE THAN THREE people in total to create a workable model of one of the laws of Newton's Laws of Motion.  You will pick your primary law by drawing a slip of paper with its name from a bag.

• You will use materials we have in the classroom plus items you will bring from home.  
• If you use things from the classroom, please ask me before you go cutting into them; I may still need them whole after we're finished.

• Think of the OK GO video, "This too shall pass" for inspiration.
• Needing/Getting is pretty darned inspirational, too.

Parents:  This is a great time to use up small odds & ends you have at home and don't know what to do with:  orphan nuts, bolts. ancient keys, long-ish bits of wire, small non-working electrical thingamabobs, leftover craft supplies like yarn, pipe cleaners, lollipop sticks, paper or plastic cups etc...  send them to our class with your student!  Small boxes, like shoe boxes or small shipping boxes are great, as well.  We take donations of masking and scotch tape, too!  And THANK YOU!!!

When you and your team (if you have one) are complete, you will use your model to demonstrate your law to me and to any volunteer students.  You will then (1) explain how this model demonstrates/models your Law; (2) explain how it also demonstrates the other two Laws; and (3) explain how gravity factors into your demonstration.

• Tuesday 1/9/18:  Receive Law; assemble team; discuss model designs; research on internet.
• Wednesday 1/10/18:  Bring in materials if needed; assemble model.
• Thursday 1/11/18:  Complete model; practice demonstration.
• Friday 1/12/18:  Complete model & rehearsals, give demonstration to Mrs. Greenberg