Sunday, January 27, 2013

Week of January 28th
The Hunter's Stars!  Pictured above is the famous Constellation Orion.  Your mission this week is to find this constellation in the night sky - look for the 3 stars in a row.  In the upper left is Betelgeuse - a red super giant.  Betelgeuse is a very bright star, but it is cooler than our Sun.  How is this possible?  In the bottom right is Rigel - a blue giant star - one of the hottest and brightest stars in the sky.  Right beneath the 3 belt stars is the Orion Nebula - one of the most active star-making nebula's we have found.

Our Week

Monday:  1.  Continue working on Star Activities - the plan is to be done with everything by the end of class on Tuesday
Homework:  1.  Work on Star Activities if behind  2.  Find Constellation Orion - Draw, color and label the names of the most prominent stars - use my picture above for help.   Record what time and in what direction in the sky you saw it.  Due Friday. 
3.  Astronomy Eval. on Quia - link is below - due Wednesday
 

Tuesday:  1.  Finish Star Act. - I will be collected the Spectroscope Lab and What Types of Stars are in our Galaxy.  I will be checking the Gizmo and What's the Story.  

Element Spectra for Spectroscope Lab

Wednesday-Friday:  1.  "Tools of Modern Astronomy" 2.  Tools' Research Project - due Tuesday, February 5th
 Question of the Week
The Hubble Space Telescope at work over 200 miles above the Earth.  What would be the main reason to place a telescope in space?
No, the sky is not falling!  Pictured above are 3 huge reflecting telescopes in Chile;in the background is the Milky Way.  Click on the picture and watch what happens.  Why do you think the Milky Way seems to  moving?
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Week of January 22nd
Pictured above is a star forming section of one of our nearby  galaxies - The Small Magellanic Cloud - a mere 200, 000 light-years away!  How do you know that these are relatively young stars?
 Our Week - Really BUSY ONE!
Tuesday: 1.  Check/go over bookwork and video notes sheet  - Life and Death of a Star 2.  "What Does a Star's Light Reveal About a Star?"

Activities for the week - ALL DUE MONDAY, JANUARY 28th end of class

1.  Gizmo - Star Spectra - link below - you will need to login with teacher assigned user and password - enter star spectra in search box
 

 2.  Spectroscope Lab - packet

3.  What's the Story? (Reading Handout)1-4 p. 53, 1-3 p. 54,
 1-2 p. 55 - answers in notebooks

 4.  What Types of Stars are in our Universe? Question Sheet with Graph and Hall Chart Graphing

5.  Quia Quiz - "Stars and Galaxies" - link posted on Thursday

Astronomy Questions of the Week
Doomed Star Eta Carinea - this amazing star - about 100 times larger than our Sun - is heading to the amazing end of a massive star - what would this be?

This is an x-ray image of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy which we think has a black hole in the middle.  Astronomers think this due to the x-ray flares shown above - x-rays flares are given off by black holes.  What else is given off when a black hole is created?

Of course we needed to take a look at what the Milky Way looks like from the desert - Monument Valley in the Southwest of the USA.  What a site!  What type of galaxy is the Milky Way, and where is our solar system located in it?
 




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Monday, January 14, 2013

Week of Jan. 14th
Pictured above is a colorful canvas of hot, young stars only about 2,400 light-years away!  Part of what you are looking at is an area to the left where star-birth is taking place - what is this area called, and what process has to start happening for a star to be born?  Use the diagram below for help.
 Our Week
Monday: 1.  Finish Hubble Deep Field turn in  2.  "Life of Stars"  3.  Finish The Life Cycle of a Star Flowchart - due Tuesday by end of class

Tuesday:  1.  Finish Star Flowchart - checked today 2.  Begin Digital Interactives  3.  Solar System in the Hall due Friday

Links for this week's interactive - you will need to write at least 2 observations about the first 4  links, and answer the 8 questions the belong to the last link.  Record all of your observations and answers in your notebook.  DUE THURSDAY by end of class






Wednesday:  1.  Continue Digital Interactives and bookwork 2.  Solar System in the hall

Solar System Information 

Thursday-Friday:  1.  Finish up Interactives 2.    PBIS Text - 1.  read p. 179-183; answer 1-4 on p. 182 and 1-2 on p. 183  2.  read p. 191-198; answer 1-4 on p. 198 - ALL ANSWERS ARE RECORDED IN NOTEBOOKS! - due Tuesday during class

 Question of the Week

Pictured above is a planetary nebula - one of the last stages of a dying star similar to our Sun.  What is happening to this star that results in this object?


 


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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Week of January 2nd
Pictured above is Curiosity Rover on Mars - look closely at the surface - what type of erosion and deposition do you notice? (Hint: notice how fine the martian soil is)
What type of geologic process could have made this rock formation?  What is this type of formation called?  
What is this landform called?  What processes would have formed it?  What other landforms do you see in this satellite image?  
 Our Week:

Wednesday:  1.  Housekeeping  2.  Review geologic processes that alter the Earth's surface  3.  Catch up

Thursday:  1.  Open Workbook Quiz over Erosion, Deposition, and Weathering


Friday:  1.  Astronomy begins!  2.  Study Island Pretest  3.  Study Island: Earth and Space Sciences - e, f, and g - DUE Wednesday, Jan. 9th - Choose 15 questions

Pictured above is a double star cluster approximately 700,000 light years away from Earth - what do you notice about stars in the Milky Way Galaxy? 
 
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