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Science 12 Week 1
Monday
Syllabus
Textbook
Scramble
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Calendar
Formative
Assessment EO1
Notes Lesson 1
The Sky From
Earth
Homework Lesson
1 page 4-9
Notes Lesson 2
Earth in Space
Homework
Lesson 2
Page 10 - 17
Notes Lesson 3
Gravity & Motion
Homework
Lesson 3
Page 18-21
Inquiry Lab
SYLLABUS DUE
NOTEBOOK DUE
Notes Lesson 1 The Sky from Earth
Things you can see in the nighttime sky:
1. Satellites: objects which move around the Earth (moon)
2. Planets: objects which move around our Sun ( Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). Move across the sky throughout the year
in a region called the ZODIAC.
3. Stars: giant balls of hot gases….move east to west across the sky
4. Meteors: small objects which burn up in the Earth’s Atmosphere
5. Comets: balls of dust/ice which go around the sun
6. Constellations: patterns of stars which form pictures in the sky.
Different ones appear depending on the season. Some Visible all
year
Notes Lesson 2 Earth in Space
The Earth spins like a top in space around an imaginary line
through the poles called the AXIS. This motion is called
ROTATION. One rotation is one day.
The Earth moves around the sun in a motion called REVOLUTION.
This path is an ORBIT. Our calendar is organized around this
revolution….1 year.
SEASONS are caused by the tilt of the Earth’s axis as it revolves
around the sun. SOLSTICES are when the Sun is in the sky for the
LEAST (WINTER – December 21) and MOST (SUMMER June 21)
amount of time. EQUINOXES are dates when day and night are
12 hours each.
Notes Lesson 3 Gravity and Motion
LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION: all objects in the universe are
attracted to each other by a force called GRAVITY
MASS is the amount of matter in an object….WEIGHT is the
measure of a the force of gravity on an object. As distance
become greater, gravity decreases. Large objects exert greater
gravity.
INERTIA: an object’s resistance to motion. Newton’s First law of
motion states that objects at rest stay at rest; objects in motion
stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.
Gravity & inertia combine to keep the Earth in Motion around
the Sun.