Week 1
Lesson 1
Week 1: The Death of a Star
The final stages of a star's life is expalined as well as a review of first semester.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Week 2:Pulsars
In this week we will cover the discovery of Pulsars and we will discuss Neutron Stars. Video about Jocelyn bell Burnell
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Week 3: Special Relativity
This week we will look at Einstein's theory of Relativity and focus on special relativity. We will solve a time dilation problem and look at time paradoxes.
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Week 4: General Relativity
This week is the second part of our Relativity lesson with a look at General Relativity. We will look at videos of gravitational waves and we will discuss the concepts of spacetime and the nature of gravity.
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Week 5: The Milky Way
We will learn the parts of our galaxy and we will be able to draw a diagram of our galaxy.
     - activities include drawing a scale model of the solar system
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Week 6: Galaxies
This week we will look at different types of galaxies and how we classify them. We will pay a visit to the Galaxy Zoo where students can become student scientists by classifying a galaxy.
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Week 8:Dark Matter
In this lesson we will try to figure out what the mysterious substance of Dark Matter is and why we believe it exists. We will look at videos and discuss how we might detect Dark Matter.
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Week 8: Expansion of the Universe
We will talk about Edwin Hubble and how we know the universe is expanding. Students can map the expansion and calculate the Hubble constant.
 Week 9
Lesson 9
Week 9: Dark Energy-
We will look at the mysterious force driving the expansion of the universe and students will speculate on what that might be.
 Week 10
Lesson 10
Week 10  Cosmology and the Shape of the Universe
Students will make models that illustrate the possible shapes of the universe.
 Week 11
Lesson 11
Week 11: Astrobiology
Does life exist outside of our solar system? Students will calculate the Drake equation.
 Week 12
Lesson 12
Week 12: History of Space Travel
In this class we will read about the beginnings of the space program and will build a timeline of the events.
 Week 13
Lesson 13
Week 13: The International Space Station
In this class we will look at life on the ISS and students will have the opportunity to build a model of the space station.
 Week 14
Lesson 14
Week 14: Colonization of Space
Students will get to design their own space colony as we discuss what it would take to live somewhere else in the solar system.
 Week 15
Lesson 15
Week 15: Time travel
In this class we will discuss the possibilities of time travel. We will look at examples and tackle paradoxes that might occur.
 Week 16
Lesson 16
Week 16: Review and Final
Studnts wishing to get a grade for the class must complete the final