ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY   ●     

SAT-10 Objective  ●

ARI Strategy or Activity    ●

ALHSGE●

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LESSON  10        Anchor Activity--Planet Brochure

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--10 & bullet 1

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  NS-7, ES-8

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

March 22-31

·        Students will select one of the 9 planets to research.

·        Students will design a Travel Brochure for that planet

·        Students will present their brochure to the class.

·        Students will work independently in class and at home. 

MON 03-22         Introduce  “Planet Travel Brochure”

(Lesson 10—Anchor Activity—

already glued in notebook)

TUE 03-23           Research Planet    

WED 03-24                   Research Planet    

THUR 03-25        ARMT-Reading

FRI 03-26            ARMT-Math

MON 03-29                   SAT-Reading

TUE 03-30           SAT-Math

WED 03-31                   Finalize Brochure

THUR 04-01        Present Brochure to Class

FRI 04-02            Present Brochure to Class

TEST on Lessons 1-8 SEM system

TUESDAY, MARCH 9

STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS      Lessons 1-8                

1.  We experience day and night because the earth rotates on its axis away from the Sun.  (The sun appears to move across the sky each day.)

2.  Rotation is the time it takes earth to turn once on its axis.

Revolution is the time it takes the earth to move around the sun once.  It   is not exactly 365 days so we have to add one day every 4 years.

3.  The moon’s period of rotation is 27.3 days and its revolution is the same as earth because we see the same side of the moon.

4.  The relative size and distance relationship between S-E-M are:

·        Moon is 30 earths from earth (384,000 km)

·        Earth is 150 million km from sun

·        Moon is 1/4 size of earth

5.  The Moon can appear as large as the sun even though we know the moon is smaller because the moon is closer to earth than the sun.  (Sun is 400 times farther away from Earth than moon and the sun is also 400 times larger in diameter than the moon.)

6.  Shadows change during the day because the as earth rotates the sun appears to move across the sky.  At sun rise and sun set, the shadows are longer than around noon when the shadows are the shortest.

7.  Shadow lengths change through out the year because when earth in tilted toward the sun the shadows are the shortest and when earth is tilted away from the sun the shadows are longer.

8.  Seasons occur because of the tilt of the earths’ axis relative to the sun.  (As earth orbits the sun, different parts of earth get more or less direct sunlight.)

9.  The factors that affect how hot or cold any one place on earth will be are:  the atmosphere and its weather, angle of sunlight, length of day, surface composition, and ocean all play a key role in daily temperatures.

10.  Looking at the moon from space, one half of the moon will always receive light from the sun because that side of the moon is reflecting the light from the sun.

11.  See notebook page 5.2 for your drawing and labeling of the phases of the moon.

12.  Solar eclipse:  (S→M→E)     ☼ ◦ ø

       Lunar eclipse: ( S→E→M)    ☼ ø ◦

13.  Solar eclipse occur because the moon crosses over earth’s orbital plane                                       as the M, E, S align and moon’s shadow falls on earth.

       Lunar eclipse occurs because the moon passes into earth’s shadow.

14.  Solar eclipse occurs during the new moon and lunar eclipse occurs during a full moon.

15.  We do not have eclipses every month because the moon’s orbital plane is tilted and when the moon passes between the sun and earth its shadow may fall above or below earth which will not cause an eclipse.

16.  The source of energy for earth is the sun’s radiation.

17.  Earth is protected from receiving too much solar radiation because the atmosphere absorbs, reflects, and scatters the sun’s incoming radiations.

18.  Sunspots are part of the sun’s surface and move across the sun from west to east indicating that the sun rotates on its axis. 

19.  Space weather is the conditions on the sun and in the sun’s extended atmosphere.  It affects our atmosphere, equipment, and space operations as well as spacecrafts, humans in space and occasionally human activities on earth.

20.  Auroras are light displays that occur near the poles when gases in earth’s atmosphere glow when hit by charged particles carried by solar winds.  They occur most often during sunspot maximum.

Study Guide Due Friday

LESSON 8--11    The Sun as an Energy Source

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--Obj. 8, 9

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  E-1 & 6

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

MON 02-23

HW:  8.0 S-E-M System Review  due Friday

• 8.1  Projecting Images of the Sun

TUE 02-24

• 8.2  Tracking Sunspots  p. 108  1-3

• 8.2a  Reflection questions #2 A-B
• 8.3  Space Weather p. 109 #1 -2

WED 02-25

8.4  Reading Activity pages 113-121

THUR 02-26

• 10.0 Planetary Chart--place in NB to complete for each planet.

Begin Lesson 11  The Solar System:  Designing a Scale Model

• Intro and Getting Started
• 11.0  KWL--What we know about the order of, size of and relative distances between the planets.

• 11.1 Designing a Model of Solar System p. 147
  • Completing the data on WS 11.1
• 11.1a  Reflection Questions p. 148 #2 A-E

FRI 02-27

Correct Lesson 1-8 Study Guide

TEST Tue March 9

LESSON 7           The Sun as an Energy Source

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--Obj. 9 + bullet 1

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  E-1

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

MON 02-22

• Set up notebook for inquiry 6.2

6.2:  Analyzing the Geometry of Eclipses

6.2a  ●Reflecting on what you have done:  p.  80 #2 A-D

TUE 02-23

• Check and go over HW 6.2a
• Begin Lesson 7, intro. and getting started p. 88-89
• ●6.0  KWL  Solar Energy
• Set up notebook w/scientific method for Inquiry 7.1

WED 02-24 In the Science Lab:

7.1:   ●Investigating the Effects of Radiant Energy p. 90-91

HW:  7.1a  Reflection Questions  p. 91 #2 A-E

THUR 02-25

7.2  Our Sun’s Energy● 

• Read pages 92 and 98-101
• Answer questions as you read  

FRI 02-26

• FIELDTRIP:  Go to  GHS  to watch the play “Godspell”
• Finish 7.2  reading activity

TEST****WEDNESDAY 2-10*** TEST

LESSONS 1,2,3,4, + Sun and Stars    STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS

1.       Copernicus—Sun centered theory

Kepler—all planetary objects orbit around the sun (sun centered theory)

Ptolemy—Earth centered theory

Galileo—Earth wasn’t the center of the Universe (sun centered theory)

2.       Galileo was the first to use the telescope.

3.      Kepler said planets move in an elliptical orbit around the sun.

4.      Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun and the moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than the sun.

5.      The moon is ¼ the size of the Earth.

6.      Winter—shadows are longer and make an arch pattern

Summer—shadows are long at sun rise and sun set but short in the middle, and are almost in a straight line.

7.      Ananazi were ancient people in the southwest (early Native Americans) who developed a calendar using rocks.

8.      Add altitude from page 4.4 to this list with its definition.

9.      Seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth’s axis.

10.  When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

11.  Polaris is the star over the Earth’s North Pole and indicates latitude in the Northern Hemisphere.

12.  Circumpolar stars are stars that can be seen all night during the entire year because they are above the Earth’s axis.

13.  Stars appear to be moving in the night sky because Earth is rotating on its axis.

14.  Equinox is when the Sun is over Earth’s equator and neither hemisphere tilts toward the sun.  They occur on the first day of spring, March 21 and the first day of fall, September 21.  We will have equal day and night on these days.

15.  The Sun rises from the East and sets in the West.

16.  Ursa Minor is a constellation which is a region in the sky.

17.  During summer in the northern hemisphere the earth would be tilted toward the sun.

18.  As the night progressed, star A would move out of sight below the horizon, star B would move around the North Star and not disappear, and the North Star would remain in the same place.  Star B and the N. star appear to be circumpolar stars.

LESSON 5           Investigating Lunar Phases

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--Obj. 8; 9 + bullet 1

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  E-1 & 6

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

MON 02-08

Go over and correct Study Guide

TUE 02-09

• Begin Lesson 5 Intro and Getting Started p. 62-63
• ●Set up NB for inquiry 5.1

Inquiry 5.1:   Investigating the Moon’s Reflected Light p. 64-66

• Conclusion:  p. 66 #2 & 3
  • ●Draw a circle connecting all 8 of your completed Moons on WS 5.2.  The cut along that circle.  Glue this circle at just the top on the back of

NB p. 5.1.

• HW:    5.1a:  Reflection Questions p. 66 #1 A&B

WED 02-10

TEST:  Sun Earth Moon System

5.1b:  Apollo 11

• Read pages 70 - 73
• ●Answer questions from WS in your notebook

THUR 02-11

• Go over and check Reflection questions
• ●Set up notebook for inquiry 5.2

5.2:  Modeling Lunar Phases p. 67

• HW:    5.2a:  Reflection Questions p. 67 #2 A-D

FRI 02-12

• Go over and check Reflection questions

●Moon phase poster:  Use Inquiry Master 5 to identify the lunar phases.

• P. 67 #4.    Draw the Sun and Earth on a large sheet of paper. Cut the lunar phases from the WS, glue on a large sheet of paper, and label each phase using

pages 68-69.

STARS,     H-R DIAGRAM,   AND     CONSTELLATIONS

Add-ins not supplied by AMSTI

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--Obj. 8, 10 bullet 2,3

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  E-6

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

MON 02-01

• 4.3View Chapter 19 CD:  STARS
  • Stars
  • The Life Cycle of Stars
  • Galaxies
  • Formation of the Universe
• 4.3a Life Cycle of a Star notes
• 4.3b H-R (Hertzsprung-Russell) diagrams

TUE 02-02

• Go over the HR diagram
• 4.3c  Spectral Class Chart
  • Color each row the appropriate color lightly

WED 02-03

• 4.4View Chapter 19 from Holt Science CD:  Studying Space
  • Astronomy
  • Telescopes
  • Mapping the Stars

• 4.4a  Notes of Constellations

4.5  Study Guide for SEMS Test

THUR 02-04

Construct Planisphere:

File folder

Brass brad

Scissors

FRI 02-05

• Work on Study Guide of SEMS Test

LESSON 5           Investigating Lunar Phases

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--Obj. 8; 9 + bullet 1

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  E-1 & 6

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

MON 02-08

• Begin Lesson 5 Intro and Getting Started p. 62-63
• ●Set up NB for inquiry 5.1

TUE 02-09

Inquiry 5.1:   Investigating the Moon’s Reflected Light p. 64-66

• Conclusion:  p. 66 #2 & 3
  • ●Draw a circle connecting all 8 of your completed Moons on WS 5.2.  The cut along that circle.  Glue this circle at just the top on the back of

NB p. 5.1.

• HW:    5.1a:  Reflection Questions p. 66 #1 A&B

WED 02-10

TEST:  Sun Earth Moon System

5.1b:  Apollo 11

• Read pages 70 - 73
• ●Answer questions from WS in your notebook

THUR 02-11

• Go over and check Reflection questions
• ●Set up notebook for inquiry 5.2

5.2:  Modeling Lunar Phases p. 67

• HW:    5.2a:  Reflection Questions p. 67 #2 A-D

FRI 02-12

• Go over and check Reflection questions

●Moon phase poster:  Use Inquiry Master 5 to identify the lunar phases.

• P. 67 #4.    Draw the Sun and Earth on a large sheet of paper. Cut the lunar phases from the WS, glue on a large sheet of paper, and label each phase using

pages 68-69.

LESSON 4           Seasons on Earth

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--Obj. 8, 10 bullet 2

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  E-6

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

MON 01-25

• Begin Lesson 4 Introduction and Getting Started p. 42-43
• 4.0a  Reasons for the Seasons  Read pages 54-57; answer (1-3)

TUE 01-26

Inquiry 4.1  Investigating Seasons on Earth

• ● Set up notebook using the scientific method
• Begin the inquiry p. 45-58

WED 01-27

• Finish Collecting data for inquiry 4.1
• HW:    4.1a  Reflection Questions p. 49 #2 (A-F) 

THUR 01-28

• Go over and check Reflection questions
• 4.2  p. 50 #1:  Steering by the Stars; Read pages 58-61 and answer questions (1-5)

FRI 01-29

• Correct 4.0  Words to Know  HW check

LESSON 2 Introducing Sun-Earth-Moon System

LESSON 3  Tracking Shadows

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--Obj. 8, 9 bullet 1, and 11

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  E-6

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

MON. 01-18

MLK  Holiday

TUE. 01-19

• On WS 3.1 record all times on  WS
  • ●Plot all times on Graph 1

3.1a  Reflection Questions p. 26 #4 (A-E)

WED . 01-20

• ●SET UP NB for Inquiry  3.3

Inquiry 3.3:  Modeling Winter and Summer Shadows  p. 31-33

• 3.3a Reflection Questions p. 33 #3  A-E

THUR. 01-21

• 3.3b  p. 35 #5

• ●  “The Sun”  Reading Comprehension Sheet--Read pages 36-41  completing worksheet.  On page 41 answer 1-3 on the back of 3.5.  Turn in for a grade. 

FRI. 01-22

Finish reading worksheet to turn in for grade.

1.3 Read Astronomy : Looking Back pages 9-11

• Answer questions 1-3 from page 11

1.3a  Read Starry Messenger and complete worksheet.

MON. 01-11

• Finish  Starry Messenger

1.3b  Divide note into quadrants. 

• Put Astronomer’s name in each quadrant.  List nationality and beliefs about the Earth-Centered System.

TUE. 01-12

• Lesson 2 Introduction
  • Voc. in glossary:  Galaxy, Rotation, Revolution, 1 astronomical unit and axis.
• Getting Started # 2:  Read Folklore p. 16-17

●2.0  Answer questions p. 17 (1-2)

WED. 01-13

Inquiry 2.1:   ●Demonstrating What we know about the Sun-Earth-Moon System #1, and #2 3 p. 14

THUR. 01-14

Inquiry 2.2:  Scaling the Sun-Earth-Moon System #2 

• Read pages 18-21 as you read answer A-K p.15

FRI.  01-15

LESSON 3  Tracking Shadows

• Introduction and  Getting Started p. 22-23
  • Vocabulary in Glossary:  Solar Noon, Horizon, Angular Separation
  • ●Set up notebook for  Inq. 3.1

Inquiry 3.1  Analyzing Shadows

• ●Record data on  WS
• Read:  Solar Noon p. 26

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LESSON 1           EARTH     IN     SPACE

●ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY--Obj. 8

●SAT-10 Objective Content Standard:  E-6

●ALHSGE  n/a

●ARI Strategy or Activity   

MON 01-04  TEACHERS WORK DAY

TUE 01-05

Begin Earth in Space

Lesson 1:  Thinking About Earth as a Planet

• ●Set up notebook with Table of Contents and Glossary
• Go over vocabulary for Lesson 1
• Go over introduction and getting started p. 2 & 3
• ●1.0  Brain storm about Things I know about the Solar System and Earth in space.

Make 2 columns in your notebook labeling the left:  Things I know and label the right Things I NOW know.

WED 01-06

• Inquiry 1.1:  Examining Our Ideas about Space p. 4-6 answering questions A-J in notebook.

THUR 01-07

• Finish questions A-J

●Record answers on sticky notes and place in folders