ASTROMONY CLASS

I COULDN'T SLEEP LAST NIGHT because my mind kept whirling about Astronomy Class and I just had to get the lesson plans done. So around 1AM I got up & stayed up till about 2:30 doing them. This class is for G&C and they will do most of it on their own. They will have notebooks that they will turn in weekly so I can check their progress. Brian said he'd teach some things to them. They'll look up some library books, I'll see what I can get from Netflix, and Brian will play a game with them, called Hard Vacuum.

ASTROMONY CLASS is 9-10:30AM

DAILY- go to APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ Read about the picture. Click on links to learn more. Record new facts in your notebook.

THAT is an APOD picture from their website.

CONSTELLATIONS:

Learn the March, April, May, June Constellations. Choose 8 to learn. (DO & Turn In 2 a week.)

• Draw(just the stars involved) your chosen Constellation.
  
• Find out if there is a story about it- write short description.
  
• List a couple of the stars (names) in your constellations.
  
• Try Wikipedia for the constellations info.
  
• http://www.allthesky.com/constellations/const.html (North
  
• http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellationmonth_list.html
  
  • (Remember your list of what is in the NORTH - this site doesn't list North and South
    
• http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~jeffery/astro/skymap/
  
• Scroll Down a bit: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/
  
• CURRENT Night Sky(click on LA): http://www.astroviewer.com/
  
• There will be a Telescope/ Star Gazing Nights- maybe even with the Star Gazing Group in S.L.O.

LESSONS:

1. Wobbles:
   
   1. http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Wobble/Wobbles.htm
      
   2. source: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/EdActivities.html
      
2. Learn the Different Types of Galaxies (take notes and draw pictures) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy
   
3. Learn the stages of a star's life cycle (notes and pictures) http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/ASTRO-F/Outreach/starlife_E.gif
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
   
4. if you still have time during your MayTerm Astronomy Study then:
   
   1. Spend Time doing research of any Astronomy Topics you choose
      
   2. research it. Take notes, draw pictures, save URLs of websites used, etc