Monday
Objective: Finish Apollo 13 if needed; students will work on a moon activity/creative thinking assignment. Goal: 100% completion of assignment, 100% passing assignment with a B+ grade or higher
Text: none
Vocab: none
Homework: finish creative thinking assignment
Objective: Finish Apollo 13 if needed; students will work on a moon activity/creative thinking assignment. Goal: 100% completion of assignment, 100% passing assignment with a B+ grade or higher
Text: none
Vocab: none
Homework: finish creative thinking assignment
Tuesday
Objective: take quiz over moon cycles/phases/facts. Begin discussing solar system. Geocentric vs heliocentric systems, early astronomers, intertia, & orbit
Text: 670-675
Vocab: inertia, gravity, ellipse, heliocentric, geocentric mnemonic device
Homework: Read 670-675
Text: 670-675
Vocab: inertia, gravity, ellipse, heliocentric, geocentric mnemonic device
Homework: Read 670-675
Wednesday
Objective: Inner planets; review gravity & inertia; discuss retrograde motion
Text: 682-689
Vocab: Phobos, Deimos
Homework: read 682-689
Thursday
Objective: Discuss the outer planets, including surface composition & atmosphere
Text: 690-697
Vocab: none - review planet names and mnemonic devices
Homework: study notes for 15 minutes
Objective: Discuss the outer planets, including surface composition & atmosphere
Text: 690-697
Vocab: none - review planet names and mnemonic devices
Homework: study notes for 15 minutes
Friday
Objective: Watch a video about the formation of the solar system (stream from Netflix)
Text: none
Vocab: none
Homework: none
