Astronomy Syllabus 18/19
Teacher: P. Perry
Text: Astronomy Online Book
Link to last year: Astronomy Syllabus 17/18
Unit 1: Night Sky Observation
Priority Standard:Scale, proportion, and quantity.
Secondary Standard:HS-ESS1-4: Obtain, evaluate and communicate data
based on the motion of orbiting objects in the solar system.
Astronomy Text Chapter 2
Thu 8/30 (B4)
1. Make a Star Wheel from the directions here
FA2. Do Star Wheel Twist. You will be using the program "Stellarium" instead of the one listed in the worksheet which is on the desktop computers in C129 or is available as a free download here.. The Stellarium user guide is here.
Tue 9/4 (B4)
1. Watch Introductory Astronomy: Positions on the Celestial Sphere and do "Position" from "Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy".
2. Do Using a Planisphere/Star Wheel (you need only answer the questions, you do not need to make another star wheel,
click here to read the directions for using a star wheel. You will need to read this to answer some of the questions.
Thu 9/6 (B4)
1. Finish work from last class and pass in
2. Begin Lab 01: Introduction to Stellarium (change locations of Conway, AR to Lewiston, ME and dates of 07/06/16 to today) using the computers and Stellarium - pass in next class
Mon 9/10 (B4)
1. Go over local and celestial sphere coordinates.
2. Finish Lab 01: Introduction to Stellarium and pass in today
3. Begin "The Celestial Sphere Activity #1" using the star globes
Wed 9/12 (B4)
Finish "The Celestial Sphere Activity #1" using the star globes - pass in
Fri 9/14 (B4)
1. Watch Introductory Astronomy: Motions of the Stars and do "Motion" from "Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy".
2. Make a quadrant using the directions in Using a Quadrant. This weekend, make the observations in the packet. Solar noon on Saturday is at 12:29:02 PM and on Sunday it as at 12:28:41 PM
3. Finish work from last class and pass in. Anything you do not finish today is homework and is due at the beginning of next class.
Tue 9/18 (B4)
1. Finish Using a Quadrant - pass in
2. Do The Rotating Sky - the link to the pages you need to read is here.
Thu 9/20 (B4)
1. Finish work from last class and pass in
2. Do Sky Matching Exercise. This simulation will help. - finish as homework
Remaining Activities in this Unit
1. Do The Celestial Sphere
2. Do Using an Astrolabe #1
3. Do Using an Astrolabe #2
4. Answer the questions in "Chapter 1 Understanding the Starry Sky."
5. Do Lunar Lollipops (& Cookies!)
6. Do Sky Matching Exercise
ASSESSMENTS
"Night Sky Observations" - due 10/17/17
Unit 2: The Electromagnetic Spectrum, beginning on Mon 10/15 B4:
1 Do Powers of Ten, the link to the movie is here and to the simulation is here.
2. Watch What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum? and do "Sources and Detectors" lab.
3. Do Modeling the Spectrum
4. Do What's the Frequency,Roy G. Biv?
5. Do Scientific Notation
6. Begin research for summative assessment on the electromagnetic spectrum, Electromagnetic Pasta. A good start would be to research the human uses of each type of Electromagnetic Radiation (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays).
7. Watch Introductory Astronomy: Electromagnetic Spectrum of Light and do "Electromagnetic Spectrum" from "Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy."
8. Do "The Electromagnetic Spectrum", the link to the simulation is here. NOTE -- this will not work on your Chromebook, you need to use Internet Explorer on a computer at home or in the classroom.
***USING JAVA APPLETS:
You MUST open the web page in Internet Explorer.
If the applet won't load, copy the URL.
Go to the icon at the bottom left of the Windows screen, click and open the "Control Panel" and then open "Java" (this can take a few seconds to open, so wait.) Go to the "Security" tab. Click "Edit Site List" and then "Add" in the new window. Paste in the URL and then click "OK" and "OK" on the next window.
Close Internet Explorer and reopen the web page. You will get two Java notices. In "Java Update Needed", choose "Later." In "Security Warning," choose "Run."
Tue 11/6 B4
1. Watch Introductory Astronomy: Electromagnetic Spectrum of Light and do "Electromagnetic Spectrum" from "Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy."
2. Do the research for Electromagnetic Pasta
Thu 11/8 and Tue 11/13 B4
Make the poster for Electromagnetic Pasta
Beginning Tue 11/27 (B4) (activities for wave/particle theories of light
1. Do Wave Simulation using the simulation below
2. Answer all questions in Lessons 2 and 3 Waves from the PhysicsClassroom.com beginning here. Use the links at the bottom of each page to navigate to the next section and lesson. SHOW ALL WORK for any questions involving calculations. Here is a sheet on which to record your answers.
3. Do Wave Theory of Light. You will need the simulation below.
4. Watch The Original Double Slit Experiment
5. Do Young's Experiment Activity Sheet. Interactive is here. This page will help explain how to make the measurements and do the calculations.
6. Do Assessment: Wave Nature of Light
7. Watch Newton's Dark Secrets and do worksheet. Transcript of broadcast is here -
8. Do Newton's Prism Experiments
9. Do "Mixing Colored Light."
10.Do Photoelectric Effect Virtual Lab. Download this file to the desktop of the classroom computers and open using LoggerPro to do your graphs. You can find additional information to help with the understanding of the result of this lab at the Photoelectric Effect from the Physics Hypertextbook.
11. Finish Photoelectric Effect Virtual Lab Watch this video first: Wave-Particle Duality and the Photoelectric Effect! Watching this video afterwards will help with your essay The Photoelectric Effect. This is a summative assessment!!!
Tuesday 1/15
I can't be here today so we will do the lab next class. Please go to Using the Electromagnetic Spectrum to Explore the Universe and print this paper out instead, or you can write this on a plain piece of paper. Here is the link to the Multiwavelength Gallery
Beginning Fri 2/1(B4) (activities for Spectroscopy)
1. Watch Introductory Astronomy: Different Types of Spectra and Introductory Astronomy: Atoms and Light and do the worksheets to go with them.
2. Do Supernova Chemistry
3. Do The Bohr Model of Hydrogen and Spectroscopy
4. Do Identifying Lines in the Solar Spectrum
5. Do the The Flowchart of Stellar Evolution
6. Do Cosmic Connections Webquest, here is the task description.
7. Play Kahoot!
8. Do Star Spectra Science: Using Plastic Eggs & M&Ms to Model Spectroscopy
9. Do Decoding Starlight
10. Watch How Quickly Does a Supernova Happen and do We Are Stardust
11. Do Ds9 Supplement to "Decoding Starlight" (contains instructions for doing 3 color composites)
12. Do X-ray Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnants
13. Do Summative Assessment: Spectroscopy
Mon 4/22
1. Finish X-ray Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnants and Summative Assessment: Spectroscopy - Pass in by the end of the period
2. Do some research and choose a supernova to do your project on, here are the instructions Adopt-A-Supernova
Fri 4/26 (and the next few class periods)
1. Do What is a False Color Image? (Review for Adopt-A-Supernova Assessment) -- NEW LINKS - first link is here
2. Do Summative Assessment - Adopt-A-Supernova
IMPORTANTFollow the links in the handouts unless specified that they have changed. You need to use a classroom computer because you are using ds9 which is the program on the desktop with the sun icon.
Optics and Telescopes - starting 5/16
1. Do Exp 29 Light and Distance - SKIP FOR NOW
2. Do Refraction PhET Lab
3. Do Total Internal Reflection using the simulation below
4. Watch Physics 1403: Lenses and do the notetaking guide, lab and worksheet on that page.
You can use the simulation below, also, for help in visualizing how lenses work."
5. Do "Lenses Virtual Lab using PhET Geometric Optics" using the simulation above. The link to the second simulation is here. You will need to calculate "M" which is the magnification. Magnification is the image height divided by the object height. For the questions, you need to use the thin lens equation. A reference for the thin lens equation is here.
6. Do lab on real images and thin lenses
7. Work on practice problems on Ray Diagrams
8. Do summative problems on Ray Diagrams and the thin lens equation
9. Work on Summative lab -- Thin Lenses and Virtual Images with extension question on Galileo's and Kepler's telescopes.
