Summer+School+-+Astro+&+Optics

=Summer School: Astronomy and Optics= June-July 2014

Tue 1 About the class, GTKY, card sort 2&3 GTKY, learning scientific notation and practicing Wed 1 Using Scientific Notation 2 Night Sky and Time 3 10,000,000 scale of the Solar System Thu 1 Body Geography - Time of Day 2 Phases of the Moon 3 Cosmic Voyage video Fri 1 Review moon phases Seasons in gym 2 Computer packet on seasons 3 Spectroscopes Mon 1 Flat Mirror experiment 2 Kaleidoscope and Exploring curved mirrors 3 Start EM Webquest Tue 1 Finish EM Webquest 2 Mirror lab 3 Start Mirror ray diagrams Wed 1 Finish Mirror Ray Diagrams 2 & 3 Start Astro Powerpoint project Thu 1 Finish Astro Powerpoint project 2 Of cars and towels and bending 3 Create a review board game Fri 1 Jeopardy Review 2 Test on Scale and Mirrors 3 Light through a block of glass Mon 1 Fabric of the Cosmos "What is Space" Video 2 Light Lab activities 3 Practice drawing refracted rays Tue: 1 Lens lab 2 Lens equations 3 Start NOVA hunting the edge of space telescope video Wed: 1 Finish "Hunting the Edge of Space" video 1 & 2 Build telescope and look out the windows 3 Start Vee Chart Project Thu: 1, 2, 3 Vee Chart Project, start Main Sequence activity Fri: 1 Final Project work time 2 Finish Main Sequence, start Galaxies 3 Finish Galaxies, start Hubble's Law

Mon 6/30 1 Finish Hubble's Law 2 Create and play review game 3 Test on lenses and the universe

Tue 7/1 1 Seeing Black Holes video 2&3 Work on final project (as agreed upon with Leslie

Wed 7/2 1 Hubble Space Telescope video 2&3 Work on final project

Thu7/3 Make-up work and finish project