1. Accelerated Reading
Time until 1:49

2. Physical Science April 21, 2017 Student Planner
Place this in the proper place
Tonight is the Lyrids meteor shower. Complete your Skymap assignment

3. Smoking kills

4. Essential Question: Saturn’s rings are made of what?
Write your summary from Last Class’s notes on Last Class’s paper. Last class’s EQ was:
Essential Question: Saturn’s rings are made of what?

5. Summary:
We had a standard opening. We worked on notes and watched short videos on outer planets through (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
I learned

6. Topic/Objective:
Name:
Astronomy
Class/Period:
Date:
April 21, 2017
Essential Question: What is the last planet in our solar system?

7. Warm Up

8. Link
Write the following in your warm up: Today’s warm up is the Solar System booklet

9. Homework
Sky Map is due May 1

10. Today’s Work
Grade planners & check notebooks
Astronomy notes & videos
Solar System booklet
Collect vocab booklet, triad 5 ungraded notebooks, anything from triad 5 that was not graded.

11. Solar System booklet
Draw the image in the space above the data collection.
Find the data in your textbooks and record in correct space.
This can be done as you come into class daily

12. Uranus (your-an-us) -Tipped on its side
-Revolution- about 84 years
-One pole is in darkness for half of a Uranus year
-Thin rings
-Rotation- about 17 hours
-Made of hydrogen and methane gas
-27 moons
Video link

13. Neptune - Atmosphere is similar to Uranus
-Gives off heat which creates winds
-Warm gas rises and cool gas sinks which
sets up the wind patterns
-Narrow rings
-Rotation- about 16 hours
-Revolution- about 164 years
13 moons

14. Dwarf planets
Pluto -Too small and the orbital path is different from the other planets
-Revolution-248 years
-Very cold
Video link

15. Constellations
I. What are constellations
A. Manmade designs using stars as coordinates in the picture.
1. First catalogs of the stars date from 1830BC.
2. Modern names are from records written by Ptolemy about 100 AD.

16. 3. Used in astrology (predicting the future), mythology.
4. Southern hemisphere has different constellations which were identified in the AD.

17. II. Modern use of constellations
A. IAU (International Astronomical Union) divided the celestial sphere into 88 official constellations.
1. Allows area mapping of the sky
2. Continues use of Greek-Roman names
Video link or