Team 8-2 Science/Week of February 13th

Week of February 13th

This is called a "Snow Moon"

 

The Week

Monday:  1.  Finish Solar System in Hall - due end Tuesday!

Tuesday:  1.  Check Solar System in Hall  2.  Begin Celestial Movement - due end of class Wednesday

Wednesday: 1.  Finish Celestial Movement Table - due today!  

Thursday:  1.  "A Year of the Sun" Interactive - due Friday

A Year of the Sun Interactive 

Friday:  1.  Finish Year of the Sun

Homework For Week - due Friday

Pictured above is the Winter Constellation Orion - Orion is made up of some very interesting stars: Betelgeuse, in the top left above the 3 stars in a row, it is classified as a  red supergiant, and Rigel in the bottom right is a blue-white supergiant

 Your assignment is to - 

1.  Find Orion in the evening sky - draw a detailed labeled diagram - with the help of the internet, of course.  Label the main stars of Orion - and there is a nebula floating around up there also - where is that located?

2.  You need to then compare our Sun to Betelgeuse and Rigel - how is our Sun classified compared to them - find differences in size, age, color, temperature