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
SCALE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
What is a scale model of the solar system according to Bill Nye?
Bill Nye Demonstrates Distance Between Planets
SCALE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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?
SCALE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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
EARTH AND SKY9/11/2014
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
EARTH AND SKY9/14/2015
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)
EARTH AND SKY9/15/2015
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
EARTH AND SKY9/16/2015
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
EARTH AND SKY9/17/2015
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.
EARTH AND SKY9/18/2015
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.
CHAPTER 2 TRUE OR FALSE
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.
CHAPTER 2 TRUE OR FALSE
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
EARTH AND SKY9/21/2015
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
EARTH AND SKY9/28/2015
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
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