Week

Reading Assignment

Two homework assignments are due each week, one on Thursdays, and one on Sundays, to be submitted before 11:55 PM PDT.

Chapter Quiz
Due Dates 

 1

Chapter 1

Topics of the Week:

• Who are you?  What kind of learning matches your preferences best?  How far away are the planets and stars?
   

• What do you think about Astrology?  Do you read your horoscope?  Do you *believe* it? :) 
   

• Due Thursday 6/26 HW#0: Biographies, VARK, and our Online Class
   

• Due Sunday, 6/29 HW #1: Sunsigns and Astrology: Where was the Sun when you were born?

completed by Sunday 6/29

 2

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Topics of the Week:

• Why are there seasons?  When is the Earth closest to the Sun? How do most people explain seasons?
   

• How does Astronomy influence poetry, literature, and the arts?
   

• Due Thursday, 7/3   HW #2: The Reasons for Seasons
   

• Due Sunday, 7/6  HW #3: Astronomical Poetry

completed by Thursday 7/3

Lunar Phases

completed by Sunday 7/6

Chapter 1 quiz completed by Thursday, 7/3

Quiz on Chapter 2 completed by Sunday 7/6

 

 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Topics of the Week:

• What does the Moon look like in Timbuktu when it is full in Hayward?  Do Full Moons really affect people on Earth?
   

• Is there gravity in space? What were the results of the survey?
   

• Due Thursday, 7/10  HW #4: Moon phases & Eclipses around the world
   

• Due Sunday, 7/13  HW #5: Magnetism & Gravity Survey

completed by Thursday 7/10

Orbits & Kepler's Laws

completed by Sunday 7/13

 4

Chapter 6

Topics of the Week:

• What do you picture when you think of "an astronomer"? Could YOU be a scientist?
   

• Does gender matter in doing science?
   

• Due Thursday, 7/17  HW #6: The Nature of Science
   

• Due Sunday, 7/20  HW #7: Women Hold Up Half the Sky
   

completed by Thursday 7/17

Light & Spectroscopy

completed by Sunday 7/20

Quiz on Chapter 5 completed by Thursday 7/17
 

Quiz on Chapter 6 completed by Sunday, 7/20

  5

Topics of the Week:

• How much of our ongoing federal budget is spent on Space?  Is the expense worthwhile?
   

• What is the difference between good science and bad science?
   

• Due by Thursday, 7/24  HW #8: NASA budget
   

• Due by Sunday 7/27   HW #9: Good Science vs. Bad Science: Asteroid XF11

completed by Thursday 7/24

Formation of the Solar System

completed by Sunday 7/27

 6

Chapter 8

Toipcs of the Week:

• What current topics about solar system astronomy are being discussed in the news?  
   

• How important are ethics to the process of Science? Why?
   

• Due by Thursday, 7/31  HW #10: Science in the News - Sharing a current article about astronomy and the scientific process.
   

• Due by Sunday, 8/3  HW #11: Ethics in Science

 completed by Thursday 7/31

Shaping Temperature of Terrestrial Planets

completed by Sunday 8/3

 7

Chapter 10

Questions of the Week: 

• What have we learned about the planets and our Moon from NASA probes?
   

• Is Pluto a Planet?
   

• Due by Thursday 8/7  HW #12:  Global Warming Part I: Is Our Sun the Cause?
   

• Due by Sunday, 8/10  HW #13: Global Warming Part II: What Should We Do?

completed by Thursday 8/7

Doppler Effect

completed by Sunday 8/10

Quiz on Chapter 10 completed by Sunday, 8/10

 8

Chapter 18

 Questions of the Week:

• How do you think society would (will?) react to the discovery of intelligent life in space?  Why?
   

• Due by Thursday, 8/14  HW #14: Rent & Watch the movie, CONTACT

Final Exam (3 Essays, submitted by email)

The exam window opens Sunday, 8/10. The Exam must be completed and received by Thursday 8/14 at 11:55 PM PDT

completed by Thursday 8/014

Black Holes (optional)

completed by Friday 8/15

AND

Final Exam

 completed by Thursday, 8/14

Any extra credit work due by Friday, 8/15, please