Astronomy
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Astronomy Syllabus
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Unit 0 - Lab Safety (PPT / PDF / Review Concepts)
Lab Safety Contracts
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Unit 1 - How the Sun Works
Week 1: What is matter? What is energy?
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
Week 2: What is inside the sun? 
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF)
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF )
Elemental Disputes Article
Practice Test
Week 3: How can we measure the sun?
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF )
Side Quest - Generic Outline Tool
Week 4: Where does the sun's energy come from? 
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
PhET Gas Law Simulation
Week 5: Unit Assessment
Packet (Word / PDF)
Astro Side Quest (Word / PDF)

Unit 2 - The Life of Stars
Week 1: How long do stars last?
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
Week 2: Why do stars die? 
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
PhET Build an Atom
PhET Nuclear Fission
Week 3: What happens after stars die? 
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
More Challenging Option
Week 4: Unit Assessment
Packet (Word / PDF )

Unit 3 - How It All Began
Evidence for the Big Bang reading
Boost for the Big Bang Theory reading (PDF)
Big Bang Questions

Week 1: How can we determine size of the universe?
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
Week 2: How can the rate of expansion of the universe determine its age?
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
Week 3: What can we learn from background radiation? 
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
Week 4: Unit Assessment
Packet (Word / PDF )

Unit 4 - Navigating Space
Week 1: How and why do things orbit in space? 
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
Week 2: How can we predict orbits? 
Labwork Packet (Word / PDF )
Core Ideas (PPT / PDF)
Week 3: Unit Assessment
Packet (Word / PDF )

Final Exam