1. Thursday Take out your comic strip HW assignment to be checked.
*Quick write: (In your notebook)
Think about a time when you disagreed with someone. What was the disagreement about? How did you resolve the issue? Write a few sentences to tell your story. Be prepared to share.
*Did you hear? NASA has discovered 7 new exoplanets, possibly in a habitable zone!

2. Tycho Brahe- “Golden Nose”
mid 1500’s
Observed stars and planets-began to see definite patterns
His model of solar system was a “hybrid” of Ptolemy and Copernicus
Observed a supernova that lasted almost 18 months!
Click on Tycho!

4. The ladies dig my nose!

6. Johannes Kepler Late 1500’s 3 Laws of Planetary motion
Planets travel in a fixed path called an ellipse
Click on Kepler

7. Kepler’s Law
Kepler Video

8. Kepler Telescope
Can you guess what this telescope looks for? Click on telescope!

9. Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
The planets orbit the Sun in an ellipse
The planets move faster as they get closer to the Sun (Perihelion)and slow down when they are further out (Aphelion)
The further a planet is from the Sun, the longer its orbital period.
Kepler’s Laws improved the work of Copernicus
*COPY THESE INTO YOUR NOTEBOOK

10. Kepler’s Laws (Click here)
The planets orbit the Sun in an ellipse
The planets move faster as they get closer to the Sun and slow down when they are further out
Kepler’s Laws improved the work of Copernicus
Animation of Kepler’s Laws: Click HERE