GattoScience

This is the entire first unit, Astronomy, in the Earth and Space course. This includes all lessons and homework from each lesson posted, as well as the unit plan.

This bundle contains the unit plan with - textbook homework (if using Textbook Glencoe Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe, Student Edition)- all lessons and worksheets for certain lessons - major unit project - mini lab assessment

In this lesson, the students will learn and the Structure of the Solar System. This lesson covers the different zone of our solar system, the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud and also covers the classification of planets and Trans–neptunian objects. The lesson also comes with a question sheet for homework, with additional video links.

The students will learn about electromagnetic radiation and review magnification. They will then learn about refractive vs reflective telescopes, Space telescopes and Radio telescopes. There is also an introduction to the difference between pulsars and quasars. The student copy contains an abbreviated lesson as well as homework questions. This folder contains the lesson and student worksheet.

In this first lesson of the unit, the students will learn about the Formation of the Solar System. Since the lesson is long, there is an accompanying student worksheet. The students will then watch a movie (link included) and complete the video worksheet included. Lesson sheet Download includes: - powerpoint, lesson worksheet, video worksheet, answer to video worksheet

This is a very detailed lesson on the different types of measurements used to measure large astronomical distances. This lesson teaches the students astronomical units, light years, parallax and parsecs. We also discuss variable star comparison (intrinsic and extrinsic variation) and a brief introduction to red shift. This folder contains the lesson, a student copy of the lesson, a homework sheet and an answer key.

In this lesson, the students learn how to measure distances in the night sky. We learn about latitude and longitude, the celestial sphere, right ascension and declination, and altitude and azimuth. The students then practice locating objects in the night sky. This folder includes a lesson, homework sheet and answer key.

This is the second of 2 lessons on the Precambrian period. This lesson focuses on the formation of the atmosphere, outgassing and oxygen, the formation of the Oceans and ends with the origin of life (proterozoic life, ediacaran biota). At the end of this lesson, students begin watching "How the Earth Was Made" on youtube, to be continued the next day. In this download, you will receive the lesson as well as the movie question sheet for How the Earth was made (link included in lesson).

The students will learn about the principles of Uniformitarianism. They will learn about cross-cutting relationships and examine the 3 types of unconformities. Then the students will learn the different between relative and absolute age dating and identify different types of absolute age dating. This download comes with a lesson and homework sheet.

This is the introduction to the unit. In this lesson, the students learn what the Rock Record is and its' importance to learning about the history of the Earth. The students will be briefly introduced to the different types of rocks and the rest of the lesson will focus on how geologists use the rock record. The Grand canyon will be used as an example of using the rock record to explain history. This lesson also has an accompanying student homework sheet.

In this lesson, the students learn about the characteristics of stars, apparent and absolute magnitude, composition, Wein's law, and the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. The students also receive a worksheet to practice classifying stars in the letter group based on colour and temperature.

In this lesson, the students learn about a brief history of astronomy and how it has evolved. The lesson is divided into 5 parts: 1) Universal Appeal 2) Greek Geocentric Model 3) Ptolemy and Epicycles 4) The Copernicum Revolution 5) Kepler's Three Laws The folder contains the lesson and homework sheet.

The students will learn, in detail, the life cycle of a star and then work on the accompanying homework.

The students are required to watch the NOVA movie on youtube, and complete the movie worksheet questions. Answers to the questions are included.

These reflection questions were created for the senior level student after they have watched the movie "The Martian".