Mon., Jun. 10, 2013

Objectives: Launch!
Announcements: Evaluation

Voting:

• Best Design/Theme
• Best "overall" Flight
• Highest Flight
• Coolest/Wackiest Flight

Enjoy your summer

Fri., Jun. 7, 2013

Objectives: Construct a Rocket 
Announcements:  Flights Mon.

Construct a water bottle rocket
Test for stability 
Grading

Thurs., Jun. 6, 2013

Objectives: Construct a Rocket 

Announcements:  Rocket Grades

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Practical Rocketry (Reading)
Quiz When finished (See me)
Construct a water bottle rocket
Stability Testing

Wed., Jun. 5, 2013

Objectives: Construct a Rocket 

Announcements:  Rocket Grades

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Clay, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Practical Rocketry (Reading)
Quiz when finished (See me)
Construct a water bottle rocket

Tues., Jun. 4, 2013

Objectives: Finish all 

Announcements:  All assignments due
by E.O.P

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Practical Rocketry (Reading)
Quiz When finished (See me)
Construct a water bottle rocket

Mon., Jun. 3, 2013

Objectives: Final Exam (???)

Announcements:  All assignments due
tomorrow

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Final Exam (Need more time?)
Practical Rocketry (Reading)
Quiz When finished (See me)

Fri., May 31, 2013

Objectives: Final Exam

Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Final Exam (day 2)
Practical Rocketry (Reading)
Quiz When finished (See me)

Thurs., May 30, 2013

Objectives: Final Exam

Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Final Exam (day 1)

Wed., May 29, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Get grades for:

HR Diagram
Stellar Evolution Questions
When you're done:  Rocketry Reading

Tues., May 28, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Get grades for:

HR Diagram
Stellar Evolution Questions
When you're done:  Rocketry Reading

Fri., May 24, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Get grades for:

HR Diagram
Stellar Evolution Questions
When you're done:  Rocketry Reading

Thurs., May 23, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Get grades for:

HR Diagram
Stellar Evolution Questions

Wed., May 22, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit (Bottles, Duct tape, Cardboard,
Cereal boxes, Black electrical tape, hot glue)
Finish HR Diagram

HR Diagram powerpoint
Stellar Evolution Questions

Tues., May 21, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Bring a 2 Liter bottle
Extra Credit***
Finish Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)

Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram...
What it tells us about stellar evolution

Mon., May 20, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Stellar radius
Finish Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)

Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram...

Fri., May 17, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: None
Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...

Thurs., May 16, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: None
Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...

Wed., May 15, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: More on redshift & blueshift

Finish Relativity Theory Vids 1|2|3|4
Star graphing lab:
Basic Data (handout)
Graph starter...

Tues., May 14, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Unusual type stars

Relativity Theory 1|2|3|4

Mon., May 13, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars

as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  No assignments accepted
after Jun. 4*

Opening Data: Stellar Class & Color

Relativity Theory 1|2|3|4

Fri., May 10, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars
as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  
Opening Data: Stellar Evolution


Relativity Theory 1|2|3|4

Thurs., May 9, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars
as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  None
Opening Data: Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 0107-0111) 
Stellar Evolution


Relativity Theory 1|2|3|4

Wed., May 8, 2013

Objectives: Explore changes in stars
as they run out of hydrogen
Announcements:  The Expanding Universe
What's the Universe expanding into?
Red shift & blue shift revisited 
Opening Data: Stellar Evolution - Video (Universe: 0107-0111) 
Stellar Evolution

Tues., May 7, 2013

Objectives: Explain how doppler effect 
indicates our universe is expanding
Announcements:
Opening Data: Sagan on the Drake Equation

Exoplanets & Kepler
Hubble images a planet 
The Doppler Effect

Audio Doppler Effect
Center of the Universe

Mon., May 6, 2013

Objectives: Interplay of science vs. religion
in the public consciousness
Announcements:
Opening Data:  None
Contact Essay Questions

Thurs., May 2, 2013

Objectives: Interplay of science vs. religion
in the public consciousness
Announcements: Grades/Assignments
Opening Data:  None
Contact 
Contact Essay Questions

Wed., May 1, 2013

Objectives: Interplay of science vs. religion
in the public consciousness
Announcements: Grades/Assignments
Opening Data:  None
Contact

Tues., Apr. 30, 2013

Objectives: Interplay of science vs. religion
in the public consciousness
Announcements: Grades/Assignments
Opening Data:  None
Contact

Mon., Apr. 29, 2013

Objectives: Interplay of science vs. religion
in the public consciousness
Announcements: Grades/Assignments
Opening Data:    Carl on the Rosetta Stone
Contact

Fri., Apr. 26, 2013

Objectives: Interplay of science vs. religion
in the public consciousness
Announcements: Grades/Assignments
Opening Data:   Who's Carl Sagan?
Pale Blue Dot
Finish:  Calibration Curve
Observe & record data for mystery element
Determine the wavelengths for the visible lines in the spectrum of the mystery element
Contact

Thurs., Apr. 25, 2013

Objectives: Analyze mystery elements
and identify them based on spectrum
Announcements: Grades/Assignments
Opening Data:  Major Meteor Showers
Thatcher & Lyrids
Finish:  Calibration Curve
Observe & record data for mystery element
Determine the wavelengths for the visible lines in the spectrum of the mystery element

Wed., Apr. 24, 2013

Objectives: Analyze mystery elements
and identify them
Announcements: 
Opening Data:  Lyrid Meteor Shower
Finish your spectroscope 
Observe & record data for mercury
Create a calibration curve for your spectroscope
Observe & record data for mystery element
Determine the wavelengths for the visible lines in the spectrum of the mystery element

Tues., Apr. 23, 2013

Objectives: Analyze mystery element
and identify them based on spectrum
Announcements: Last Day...
Opening Data:  Meteor Showers
Thatcher & the Lyrids
Finish:  Create a calibration curve for your spectroscope
Observe & record data for mystery element
Determine the wavelengths for the visible lines in the spectrum of the mystery element

Mon., Apr. 22, 2013

Objectives: Discover how excited atoms
& molecules give off visible light and can
be analyzed and identified
Announcements: Got a cereal box?
Opening Data:  Another way to excite atoms
Finish your spectroscope 
Observe & record data for mercury

Fri., Apr. 19, 2013

Objectives: Discover how excited atoms
& molecules give off visible light and can
be analyzed and identified
Announcements: Got a cereal box?
Opening Data:  Electromagnetic 
Spectrum Song
Finish Flame Test lab
Build your spectroscope

Thurs., Apr. 18, 2013

Objectives: Discover how excited atoms
& molecules give off visible light and can
be analyzed and identified
Announcements:  You need a cereal box 
by Mon. - tomorrow, really
Extra credit for up to 5 additional
Opening Data:  Spring Star Parties

Lab Activity: Flame Test
Build your spectroscope

Wed., Apr. 17, 2013

Objectives: Discover how excited atoms
& molecules give off visible light and can
be analyzed and identified
Announcements:  You need a cereal box 
by Mon.
Extra credit for up to 5 additional
Opening Data:  Diffraction of light

Diffraction Gratings 

Lab Activity: Flame Test

Tues., Apr. 16, 2013

Objectives: Describe the electromagnetic
spectrum in terms of fields, waves,
wavelenths & frequency 
Announcements:  You need a cereal box 
by Thurs.
Extra credit for up to 5 additional
Opening Data:  Telescopes and viewing the sky
 





EM Spectrum Fill-in

Lab Activity: Flame Test

Mon., Apr. 15, 2013

Objectives: Describe the electromagnetic
spectrum in terms of fields, waves,
wavelenths & frequency 
Announcements:  Bring a cereal box
Extra credit for up to 5 additional
Opening Data:  Spectral response of human eye
Aricebo

VLA
EM Spectrum
EM Around Us 

Fri., Apr. 12, 2013

Objectives: Describe the electromagnetic
spectrum in terms of fields, waves,
wavelenths & frequency 
Announcements:  Bring a cereal box
Extra credit for up to 5 additional
Opening Data:  Identifying Things in Space
Copy Questions in your journal
Answer from your own knowledge, 
use your journal or look it up on the 
internet...but give full information with
some background.  Full sentences answers
please. (In most cases answers should be
2, 3 or more sentences)

Thurs., Apr. 11, 2013

Objectives: Examine how astronomers 
view the stars
Announcements:  Bring a cereal box
Extra credit for up to 5 additional
Opening Data:  Milkyway Galaxy in
various wavelengths of light
Forms of light
EM Spectrum
EM Around Us 

Wed., Apr. 10, 2013

Objectives: Assessment
Announcements:  Bring a cereal box
Extra credit for up to 5 additional
Opening Data:  None
Let's get grades for:

• Movie Focus Questions  
• follow-up questions (finish)

When you show me your answers...DOTM