探索宇宙

Exploring the Universe will introduce students to the study of astronomy. What is beyond earth? What's the difference between a comet and asteroid? Who is Galileo? Curiosity is the catapult into the exploration of space.This class is designed to offer a semester worth of in-depth astronomy in a condensed period of time.  Each lesson is presented in power-point style with interactive quizzes, question and answer time, educational videos, and games.
*Each week a new topic is introduced  
* Students will receive information on how to implement hands-on experiments and activities that relate to our lesson.   
*Science vocabulary words will be introduced weekly
* Every class will have directions with printable sheets for homework to be completed. 
*Online quiz games will be used to review content. 
*No previous background knowledge is needed, only a love for learning!   A list of topics we will cover in class are....

week 1: Nicolas Copernicus, Earth's Movement,Tools for studying space
week 2: Galileo Galilei, Stars Heavenly Bodies
week 3: Asteroids,Comets, Meteors
week 4: Our sun,Structure of the sun,Solar Eclipse
week 5: Solar Energy,Our moon,Newton & the Apple
week 6: Motion & Phases of the moon,Mercury,Venus
week 7: Earth,Mars,Jupiter
week 8: Saturn, Uranus,Neptune
week 9: little Pluto, NASA,Space Exploration
week 10: In class review with games & take home test w/answer key