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EARTH AND SKY

Unit 1

UNIT 1 EARTH AND SKY9/8/2015

Learning Targets:

Practice systematic reading approach

Review the Earth and Sky Unit

Evaluate your survey of the text

Success Criteria

Chapter 1 clarified

Map of the unit understood

Overall layout of the text comprehendible

Organize your team

HOUSEKEEPING

Complete the reading of chapter 1 pages 2-21

Check a textbook survey using the scoring guide and submit

Obtain the Unit 1 Map from the S-Drive Nash Outbox, Astronomy Folder.

Read the Unit Map to see what it is about and what you will need to be able to do and complete.

Create a folder in your H-Drive for Earth and Sky Unit

and place the Unit Map.

Review your progress in Skyward

Go to Nash Swift Site via the link in the S-Drive Outbox

and look at the Documents and locate the Opening Week Schedule

and look over the other sections

EMPLOYABILITY

Look at your employability grades

Notice the Class Time Use of 100 points

The Comments are in code:

OT = Off Task

TK = Talking during instruction or silent work

D = Disruptive (distracting others)

AB = Absent (-3 points, can be retrieved by submission of work,

labeled “absent”)

LT = Tardy (-2 points

B = Behavior (general disregard of rules)

UP = Unprepared (e.g. laptop not here or not charged)

W = Late or missing work

NFD = Not following directions

Except for absence points, you may not retrieve lost points. If you argue you will simply lose more points.

WATCH YOUR BEHAVIOR

General Behavior Sentence

I must control my behaviors, my voice, my actions, and my comments for the benefit of all since disruptive behaviors distract others from academic pursuits and creates an environment that does not allow everyone. Including me, to do their best and, therefore, I will control these behaviors because I am capable and it is important.

Write the above sentence as many times as assigned in your own handwriting otherwise they will double and you may not be admitted to class until they are done.

GETTING MORE OUT OF THIS CLASS

Do the following to get organized: Skyward to view your grades and entries and your progress

Formative, Pretest, Miscellaneous, Employability

Science Bash with Nash Swift Site and surf the pages

Documents, Announcements, Links, Videos, Contact

S-Drive Nash Outbox Astronomy folder: Open Earth and Sky Unit 1 Map and read it

Create a “Earth and Sky” Unit folder in your H-Drive and place this Map in it

Open the Team Work document and complete it for your reference

as you form and collaborate with your team

TEAMS

The majority of the work is done in teams Each person in the team will have a role to play Each team member should abide by the listed and

team generated norms (conducting the process of accomplishing the work)

Your team is the immediate group of students around you as designated by Mr. Nash

Read the Team Work guidelines and complete the form with Team # and Name (if you choose) and jobs or roles within the team and submit to Mr. Nash.

Complete the form, found in the S-Drive Nash Outbox, with the contact information

Create a Science Reference folder in your H-Drive and place this Team Work document in there.

OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE

Practice Reading the Textbook1. Read the Learning Goals on Page 1

2. Study all 17 figures & read the captions

3. Scan the chapter pages 2-21 by doing the following:

a. Read the section titles

b. Read the subsection questions

c. Read Think About It, See It For Yourself, Common Misconceptions

d. Note the special sections: Vocabulary, Mathematical Insights and

Special Topic to determine their main point(s)

e. Read the Big Picture and Summary of Key Concepts pages 21 -22

4. Now read the chapter straight through pages 2-21.

5. Submit the tracking form tomorrow

EARTH AND SKY9/9/2015

Objectives: Model the solar system

Compare relative to scale modeling

Understand the appropriateness of the use of

relative and scale drawings/modeling

Focus: How large an area would you need to model

the solar system, sizes and distance to scale?

Submit: Practice Reading &

Text Survey

THE SCALE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Scale Drawing Analysis

1. Did you draw to scale the distances

between the planets and their relative

sizes?

2. Is that even possible to do on that size

area?

3. If you feel that you did draw correct

scale distances, where is Alpha Centauri

SCALE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Units of Distance

meters, kilometers,

feet, miles

Astronomical Distances

Sun to Earth is 93,000,000 miles

Sun to Pluto is 3,670,000,000 miles

For these solar distances an AU is a better, more refined, less cumbersome unit.

An AU is the distance from _____ to ______

One light year is 63,672 AU’s


What is a scale model of the solar system according to Bill Nye?

Bill Nye Demonstrates Distance Between Planets


Critical Thinking

1. What if we used a football field, could we place the planets into scale distances?

2. Would the size of the sun and planets be to scale?


Determine a scale model of the Solar System on a football field

Think about how you would cover the whole field including Pluto. (Where would that put Eris)?

Use the Appendix and find the AU distances of the planets

Place the sun at a goal line.

Calculate the positions of the planets on the football field (yard lines)

Decide how you are going to represent the planets including their relative sizes and names.

EARTH AND SKY 9/10/2015

Objectives: Finalize and analyze scale model

Define and describe the universe and our place in it

September Sky: Let’s watch and then you can access in the S-Drive or YouTube

Thank you Seth for the morning pictures.

Submit: Scale of the Solar System on a Football Field

(include the source of your scale, Appendix 15

AU units or Building a Solar System metric/English units) Don’t forget Eris and Alpha Centauri

Play around with Build a Solar System found in my S-Drive

STAR PARTIES/FIELD TRIPS

UW Planetarium Field Trip, Friday, October 16.

Schedule includes planetarium show, tour of the UW Campus and eat at the HUB

Field Trip forms distributed next week

Cost $7.00 (see me if cannot afford)

Trip is required assignment (alternate assignment for those who cannot attend.

Need Chaperones if you can help & you are fingerprinted already.

Some events take place right here at Kentridge before and late after school with Mr. David Ingram of Boeing Astronomical Society

Major Star Party: Snoqualmie Point Park, September 18

Several telescopes and guidance on

sky viewing. Be there at 7 pm

View the Lunar Eclipse at Snoqualmie Point Park on

Sunday, September 27 at 7 pm

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EARTH AND SKY

Assignments: Figure Study Chapter 1

Open from the S-Drive Nash Outbox Astronomy folder

due tomorrow, September 11. Save in your Earth and Sky folder Homework:

Chapter 1 Review Questions page 22

Fill in the blanks and find the page # which supports your answer

Open the document in the S-Drive Nash Outbox Astronomy folder

Due Monday, September 14. Save in your Earth and Sky folder


Objectives: Measure the diameter of the sun

Analyze the validity of your measurement

Focus: What technique could be used to measure the

diameter of the sun?

Submit: Chapter 1 Figure Study (or on Monday)

Due: Chapter 1 Review (Monday)

Sky Viewing: Next Friday, September 18 at Snoqualmie Point Park 7:00 – 9:00 PM

MEASURE THE DIAMETER OF THE SUN

With a partner:

o Read the Lab Investigation

o Gather the materials

o Create your Solar Projector

o Setup your Solar Projector with ring stand and clamp and focus on the sun outside

o Please be very quiet outside.

o Complete the lab investigation table, analysis and critical thinking & application


Learning Target: Model the evidence for the Big Bang Success Criteria: Create a balloon model for the expanding universe

Explain how this model relates to the Big Bang

Skyward: Assignments recorded and class engagement updated

LOOK!! No assignments accepted after Wednesday for credit

Complete & Submit: Measuring the Diameter of the Sun

(Lab paper and your Solar Projector cards with partner names

Submit: Chapter 1 Figure Study to the folder in the S-Drive Inbox

Chapter 1 Review to the folder in the S-Drive Inbox

Sky Viewing: Snoqualmie Point Park 7 – 9 PM, this Friday, 9/18

Watch the weather to see if it is a “go”

EARTH AND SKY

Watch “Expansion of the Universe: Where is the Center?”

Perform the Big Bang Balloon Model and complete the worksheet for submission today

Refer to Chapter 1 for information to complete this worksheet

Tomorrow: How fast are you moving in the universe?

What is a light year?

Chapter 1 Quiz Preparation (quiz on Wednesday)


Objectives:

Connect space and time

Explain the validity of statements about space

Quiz yourself on your understanding of the universe and our place in it

Focus: How is it that when we are looking out in

space we are looking back in time?

Listen to Professor Frank Close explain this in the

Music by Alan Parsons entitled Temporalia in the Album, The Time Machine (techno)

Submit: Big Bang Balloon Model

Pick up: Papers (anything due by Practice Reading the Text is now

overdue and zero)

EARTH AND SKY UNIT

The Motion of the Earth (Cosmic Perspective)

Use chapter 1 to identify all the motion that we experience on the Earth. (6 different motions beyond your activity on Earth – list them and the speed)

Example: Earth Perspective: You on an airplane going to the restroom

1. Walking back and forth in the aisle

2. The plane flying through the sky

(and 6 more speeds (motions) in space)

3. ?

4. ?

5. ?

6. ?

7. ?

8. ?

Total

Speed ?

EARTH AND SKY

Test Your Understanding pages 22-23

Does it Make Sense?

o Open a word document and head it completely including your name, period and date, also title

o Complete like the Example. Type the statement by number and give the solution (criticism)

o Use the Summary of Concepts first for establishing your solution (criticism) or possibly refer back to the chapter.

Work as a team

Due on Wednesday, September 16

OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE

Chapter 1 Quiz Prep:

Quick Quiz: Letter answer and Page source

(found on page 23)

Power Point Slide Show of questions in S-Drive Nash Outbox

(open in slide show and do as directed – no paper, just think)

Read Chapter 1 again looking at the figures

Read the Big Picture page 21

Read Summary of Key Concepts pages 21-22


Objective: Demonstrate your knowledge of our place in the universe

Submit: Motion of the Earth (to S-Drive Inbox)

Your speed

Test Your Understanding

Quick Quiz

Review: Chapter 1 Quiz Prep in slide show mode

Now You are Ready for: Chapter 1 Quiz (fill blank/word bank)

Sky Viewing: Snoqualmie Point Park 7-9 on Friday (directions tomorrow)

JOSE JIMENEZ IN ORBIT

Listen to & understand:Jose Jimenez in Orbit

A record of those not laughing will be taken


Objectives: Describe the motions and patterns

of the objects in the sky

Sky Viewing: Friday, September 18, Cancelled. It is postponed to October 2 or 3. But, Sunday, September 27 we will be at Snoqualmie Point Park for the LUNAR ECLIPSE! So, come join BEAS and Mr. Ingram for that event.

Mr. Ingram will be here in class to discuss sky viewing on Friday, September 25.

Homework: Chapter 2 Reading Steps

DISCOVERING THE UNIVERSE

Patterns in the Night Sky:

Which way do the star

move around Polaris?

What did the ancients call

the night sky?

Is it still useful?

DISCOVERING THE UNIVERSE

Stargazing: How the Sky Works

Open the video found in the Astronomy folder

in the Outbox of Nash S-Drive

Open the Video Guide and save it to your Earth and Sky Unit folder in your H-Drive

Watch the video and complete the video guide as you watch it, being able to maneuver on your own.


Objectives: Describe the patterns of the Moon

and explain why they occur

Quiz Corrections: Chapter 1 in Learning Lab on Monday

or before school. Put it on your calendar

(Raise your grade to 12/15, 80%)

Quiz: Chapter 2 Reading Quiz

Write True or False to the questions on the power point

Use the text to write the correct statement as you check

Gizmo: Phases of the Moon

3-D Eclipses

Questions: Why do we see phases of the Moon?

How do eclipses occur?

CHAPTER 2 TRUE OR FALSE

Patterns in the Sky

Constellations actually have borders, like the states in the United States.

The celestial sphere shows the different distances of stars from Earth.

You can use your hand to determine the separation between objects in the sky or the sizes of the objects.

The celestial sphere rotates in the same direction as Earth rotates.

The night sky virtually stays the same throughout the year so that at any time during the year you can observe a particular star or constellation in the same position at the same time of night.


The Moon, Our Constant Companion

The Moon appears to move eastward night after night due to its orbit around the Earth

The phases of the Moon occur due to the orbit of the Moon around the sun and the Moon’s tilt on its axis.

Half the Moon is always illuminated by the sun. When the Moon is between the Earth and the sun,

the world always experiences a lunar eclipse. When the Earth is between the Moon and the sun

the world always experience a solar eclipse.


The Ancient Mystery of Planets

o As many as 5 planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter can be seen with the naked eye.

o Unlike stars, the planets appear to go backwards at different times during the year, night after night and then proceed to go forward again.

o The Greeks derived and accepted the real explanation for the backwards movement of the planets, the Sun centered solar system.

o All stars change position in the sky during the year, from our perspective, due to the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

o The concept of the Sun-centered solar system actually was proposed almost 2000 years before actually being accepted by most people.

GIZMO

Gizmo:

Go to S-Drive Outbox for Astronomy Chapter 2 and

click on the Icon and save it to your Reference folder

Receive the Class Code through Dyknow and paste it

or type it in at Gizmo for Enrolling in a Class.

Then follow the steps to set up yourself with username and password. Keep in Reference!!

Open the Explore document for the gizmo of your choice found in

the Chapter 2 folder

Click on the Gizmo of your choice: Phases of the Moon or

3-D Eclipses and follow the steps from the Explore Worksheet

THE CHANGING APPEARANCE OF THE SUN & MOON

Gizmo Assignments:

Phases of the Moon 3-D Eclipses

Choose one and do the following:

1. Obtain the Worksheet from the S-Drive Outbox Chapter 2 Folder

and complete as your work through the Gizmo

2. When finished, complete the Assessment

3. Submit Gizmo through Dyknow when requested

EARTH AND SKY CHAPTER 2

Due Dates:

Chapter 2 Reading Quiz (card checked and correct statements) Monday, 9/21

How the Sky Works: Stargazing due Tuesday, 9/22

Gizmos, Moon Phases and 3-D Eclipses due Wednesday, 9/23

Monday work & topic: Completion Day and more about the Moon


Learning Target: Describe the patterns in the sky including phases of the Moon and eclipses of Sun and Moon

Success Criteria: Assessment of gizmo phases and eclipses

Corrected misstatements of the patterns in the sky

Submit: Checked Chapter 2 Reading Quiz and correct statements

Gizmos: Phases of the Moon and 3-D Eclipses due Wednesday

- Complete the assessments

Finished? How the Sky Works: Stargazing due tomorrow

Announcement: Unit 1 Test Thursday (be ready for Essential Question)

Event: Sky Viewing & Moon Measuring w/Mr. Ingram on Friday in class

Chapter 1Quiz Correctionsand other workIn Learning Lab Today and Wed

EARTH & SKY UNIT 9/22/2015

Learning Target: To investigate the causes for the sky patterns and motions

Success Criteria: Align the cause and effect of the patterns

and motions of the objects in the sky

Field Trip: Need the form signed and $7 paid to Ms. Mamon, cashier

By Monday, September 28

Anyone not going? Anyone riding with parents?

Parent chaperones??

Submit: How the Sky Works: Stargazing (period, folder in Inbox)

Cause/Effect Question: Why do we see the sun here in Seattle at 66 degrees above the southern horizon at noon on summer solstice but only about22 degrees at winter solstice?

EMPLOYABILITY

Look at your employability grades

Notice the Class Engagement of 100 points

The Comments are in code:

OT = Off Task

TK = Talking during instruction or silent work

D = Disruptive (distracting others)

AB = Absent (-3 points, can be retrieved by submission of work,labeled “absent”)

LT = Tardy (-2 points)

B = Behavior (general disregard of rules)

UP = Unprepared (e.g. laptop not here or not charged)

W = Late or missing work

NFD = Not following directions

Except for absence points, you may not retrieve lost points. If you argue you will simply lose more points.

Formative CodeINC IncompleteNFD Not following directionsLT Late WorkCCS Check, Correct and Score

POP QUIZ PHASE OF THE MOON

What phase are we in right now? 5 points

What direction are the phases going? 2 points extra

EARTH AND SKY

Can you explain why we see the motions of objects and the patterns that are made by and between objects in the sky?

Team Work (but write all on your own paper)Causes for the Motion and Patterns in the Sky (worksheet in Outbox or hard copy)

Read the effect (what we see in the sky) and determine the cause

Think: What are the objects in the sky and Earth doing to create the effect?

Example:

Effect Cause

Southern Hemisphere The sun’s distance from a planet does

more moderate climate affect the climate. However, so

than the Northern Hemisphere does the type of surface of the planet.

even though the sun is closer The Southern Hemisphere has considerably

during their summer and more ocean surface than the Northern

further away during their Hemisphere which moderates temperature.

winter (see Cosmic Perspective pages 39-40)

DUE DATES

How the Sky Works: Stargazing Today, 9/22

Gizmos (Phases of the Moon

& 3-D Eclipses Explore Worksheets

& Assessments )Tomorrow 9/23

Causes for the Motion

& Patterns in the SkyThursday 9/24

Study for Unit 1 Earth & Sky Test Tomorrow 9/23

Unit 1 Test (MC, T-F and EQ) Thursday 9/24

Sky Charts and Moon Measure Friday9/25

Field Trip form and fee paid Monday 9/28

EARTH & SKY UNIT 9/23/2015

Learning Target: To investigate the causes for the sky patterns and motions

Success Criteria: Align the cause and effect of the patterns

and motions of the objects in the sky

Field Trip: Need the form signed and $7 paid to Ms. Mamon, cashier by Monday, 9/28

Anyone not going? Anyone riding with parents? Parent chaperones??

Submit: Gizmos PHASES OF THE MOON and 3-D ECLIPSES to appropriate folders

The Assessments are done (10 pts for Explore & 5 per Assessment – or fewer)

Complete with your team: Causes for the Motions and Patterns in the Sky

Check, Correct & Score: How the Sky Works: Stargazing (Key on Swift)

Both due tomorrow

EVENT TODAY

What solar event is taking place today? (full name)

With what does the ecliptic intersect on the celestial sphere?

REDEEM YOURSELF FROM YESTERDAY

UNIT 1 EARTH AND SKY9/24/2015

Learning Target: Our position in the universe and patterns in the sky Success Criteria: All work completed and submitted for the unit

All vocabulary and concepts on the unit map reviewed and understood

Ready with supporting details to respond to essential question

Submit: Causes for the Motions and Patterns in the Sky (one team paper – keep your own

to check on Swift

How the Sky Works: Stargazing CCS

Gizmos?? Phases of the Moon and 3-D Eclipses (assessments completed on line?)

All submitted to the appropriate folder in the S-Drive Inbox Field Trip: Need the form signed and $7 paid to Ms. Mamon, cashier by Monday,

9/28

Anyone not going? Anyone riding with parents? Parent chaperones??

See next slide for review and preparation for Unit 1 Test

TEST PREPARATION

REVIEW UNIT 1 MAP IN YOUR H-DRIVE FOLDER

Open the “Earth and Sky Unit Review” power point Set it in Slide Show Click through the Slide Show allowing the questions and the

answers to appear in order Try to answer the questions before revealing the answers Go through it twice!!

Essential Question Paragraph Choose one to write a paragraph with topic sentence, at least 3

supporting details and a closing sentence. Visit the Summary and Big Idea pages for guidance You may use a 3x5 card for notes that you wish to include

Essential Questions: How do models help us understand the size and scope of the

universe? What is it about science that allows us to change our ideas of

the universe?

EARTH AND SKY 9/25/2015

Dave Ingram (Boeing Employees Astronomical Society)

Presentation discussion of the Lunar Eclipse and other features of the sky

Lunar Eclipse Watch @ Kentridge (tennis courts) 6:30 Sunday, 9/27

Sky Viewing Party @ Snoqualmie Point Park on Friday, 10/2, 6:30 t0 8:30


Objectives: Demonstrate your knowledge of the

size, scale and motions of the universe

Review: Earth and Sky (slide show)

Submit: Unit 1 work

Test: Multiple Choice

Essay: Essential Question

Field Trip Form & Receipt? (last day of 5 points, then 4, 3, 2, 1)

EARTH AND SKY TEST

Steps Today7:35 to 7:45 Go to the S-Drive Outbox or Swift Website and open and review the slide show Submit any work still due. Do Learning Lab today if necessary. All Unit 1 work is 0 after today

7:45 – 8:05 Place your notecard inside your computer and close it Take the multiple choice (35 question) test on scantron. DO NOT HOVER !! Submit your scantron and test to the front lab counter

8:05 – 8:25 Open your laptop and deactivate wifi. Open a word document with your name period and

date and Essential Question 1 or 2. Write a paragraph response with an opening thesis statement, supporting statements and closing remark. (10 points)

Save to your desktop.

8:25 – 8:30 Activate wifi and send through Dyknow when requested. Save to your Earth and Sky folder

in your

H-Drive

EARTH AND SKY UNIT TEST

Essential Questions: How do models help us understand the size and scope of the

universe? What is it about science that allows us to change our ideas of

the universe?Open your laptop and deactivate wifi. Open a word document with your name period and date and Essential Question 1 or 2. Write a paragraph response with an opening thesis statement, supporting statements and closing remark. (10 points)

Save to your desktop

At 8:25 activate your wifi and send your Essential Question answer via Dyknow