Homework Due 02.02.15

Make a organizational plan for your Exoplanet Travel Brochure. This will basically be a rough draft with a plan for all of your graphics and text.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B97ATcSpwzerVGlxUVNZbGgycm8/view?usp=sharing

Homework Due 01.29.15

Read "Meet The Dwarf Planets" and answer questions.

http://earth.ggould.com/assignments/Meet_the_Dwarf_Planets.pdf

Kepler 186f  (Documentary):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9us7sJNFkw

Homework due 01.27.15

Read 29.3

Answer questions 1-5 on p. 791

Homework due 1/22/15

Read chapter 29.2

Answer questions 1-5 on p. 785

Homework due 1.20.15

Read Chapter 29.1, pp 774 - 779

Do problems 1-5 on page 779.

Assignment: Write a paragraph comparing the inferences you made on the card sort activity before and after you learned more about stellar evolution.

Comet Hale Bopp

Homework due 1.13.14

Read Chapter 30.3; pp 821 828
Do Problems 1 -7 pg 825

Prepare for a quiz on Problems 1 - 7; pg 830

Homework due 1.9.14

Read Chapter 30.2, pp 813 - 820
Do problems 1 - 6 pg 820

Galileo discovers 3 moons

On this date in 1610, Galileo wrote a letter describing his discovery of three of Jupiter's moons. He had recently made some improvements to his telescope, and he discovered them in December. As he continued to observe them over the next few months, a fourth celestial body appeared, and he realized that they were actually orbiting the giant planet. Since most people at that time still believed in the Ptolemaic theory - that the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around us - it was an important discovery. It went a long way toward confirming Copernicus's controversial theory that the Earth went around the Sun.

NOVA - Hunting The Edge Of Space (The Ever Expanding Universe) - HD 1080p

Here is the link to the movie we've been watching.

Homework due 1.7.14

Read Chapter 30.1, pp 804 - 812
Do Problems 1 - 7 pg 812