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INDEPENDENT STUDY : How It Works
OVERVIEW: Independent study is an opportunity for you to grow academically outside the traditional classroom.
WORK SETTING: You will be working in a location to be determined by your faculty mentor.
WORK CHOICES: You will be given different assignment types. Complete the required number of assignments of
each type (ex. Vocab = 6). You may complete these assignments in any order. However, turn in at least 2 of these
assignments each week to your faculty mentor. You will be credited for all the work that you complete.
Extra work will be given extra credit
TYPE #1: VOCABULARY (do 6 of these)
Notes: ___________________________________
* Write an accurate astronomical definition for each term listed on the sheet. Use the internet and Google each term.
Credit is given for each vocabulary list that you complete.
TYPE #2: RESEARCH FACT SHEETS (do 6 of these) Notes: ___________________________________
* Use the internet to find information related to different Astronomy topics. On a fact sheet, write down
12 interesting facts about this topic (use complete sentences). Credit is given for each completed fact sheet.
TYPE #3: TEXTBOOK READINGS (do 6 of these)
Notes: ___________________________________
* Complete the readings listed on the Text Readings page. Write answers to each of the Review Questions listed.
Credit is given for each set of text readings and REVIEW QUESTIONS that you complete.
TYPE #4: PICTURE PAGE or Power Pt (do 6 of these) Notes: ___________________________________
* Paste 5-6 cool pictures onto a blank MS word page. Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
TYPE #5: DVD MEDIA (watch 6 of these)
Notes: ___________________________________
* Watch any or all of the excellent dvd programs listed (ex. “Solar Max”). Obtain these programs (or similar ones)
from the public library. Write a 12 question quiz based on the program, and answer each of your questions.
TYPE #6: INDEPENDENT PROJECTS (do 1 of these) Notes: ___________________________________
* Complete any or all of the project choices. These can be completed at home, and each is given class credit.
How much credit you are given (up to double credit) depends on the quality of your work.
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VOCABULARY TERMS for Astronomy Unit
* Use textbook or reliable internet sources to find definitions for the astronomy terms listed below:
LIST ONE: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. day
2. month
3. synodic month
4. sidereal month
5. year
6. rotation
7. revolution
8. orbit
LIST TWO: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. Ptolemy
2. Copernicus
3. Tycho Brahe
4. Kepler
5. Galileo
6. Newton
7. Hubble
8. Herschel
LIST THREE: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. constellation
2. Orion
3. Pegasus
4. celestial equator
5. declination
6. right ascension
7. ecliptic
8. circumpolar stars
LIST FOUR: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. light year
2. optical telescope
3. refractor
4. reflector
5. radio telescope
6. Very Large Array
7. dobsonian
8. Hubble telescope
LIST FIVE: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. day
2. month
3. synodic month
4. sidereal month
5. year
6. rotation
7. revolution
8. orbit
LIST SIX: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. planet
2. moon
3. star
4. nebula
5. globular cluster
6. Andromeda
7. asteroid
8. comet
LIST SEVEN: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. fusion
2. corona
3. chromosphere
4. photosphere
5. year
6. radiative zone
7. convective zone
8. sunspot cycle
LIST EIGHT: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. solar system
2. terrestrial planets
3. gas giants
4. Voyager
5. Cassini
6. Mars rovers
7. Oort cloud
8. meteorite
LIST NINE: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. spectrum
2. emission lines
3. H-R diagram
4. main sequence
5. red supergiant
6. white dwarf
7. brown dwarf
8. supernova
LIST TEN: Use complete sentences to write definitions for the following terms:
1. pulsar
2. neutron star
3. black hole
4. galaxy
5. Messier objects
6. nebula
7. barred spiral
8. elliptical galaxy
RESEARCH (use a fact sheet)
* Use reliable internet sources to investigate astronomy topics listed below:
FACT SHEET ONE: Use the internet & search “History of Astronomy”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
FACT SHEET TWO: Use the internet & search ”Telescopes”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
FACT SHEET THREE: Use the internet & search “Earth’s Motions in Space”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
FACT SHEET FOUR: Use the internet & search “Moon Phases”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
FACT SHEET FIVE: Use the internet & search “The Cause of Earth’s Seasons”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms: dry dredgers
FACT SHEET SIX: Use the internet & search “Our Solar System”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
FACT SHEET SEVEN: Use the internet & search “Our Milky Way Galaxy”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
FACT SHEET EIGHT: Use the internet & search “Mars Rovers”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
FACT SHEET NINE: Use the internet & search “Apollo Missions to the Moon”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
FACT SHEET TEN: Use the internet & search “Great Observatories”.
Write down 12 interesting facts in the form of complete sentences. Record the two most helpful web sites.
Helpful search terms:
TEXT READINGS for Astronomy Unit
* Answers to QUESTIONS are to be neatly written or printed using complete sentences *
TEXTBOOK: _____________________________________________
AUTHOR: ____________________________________________
READING #1: Text CHAPTER: _____ Pages: ___________ Answer Questions: _____________________
READING #2: Text CHAPTER: _____ Pages: ___________ Answer Questions: _____________________
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READING #10: Text CHAPTER: _____ Pages: ___________ Answer Questions: _____________________
READING #11: Text CHAPTER: _____ Pages: ___________ Answer Questions: _____________________
READING #12: Text CHAPTER: _____ Pages: ___________ Answer Questions: _____________________
Make a PICTURE PAGE (or Power Pt)
* find 6-8 cool pictures and paste them on a MS Word page (or PPt). Include 1-2 facts with each picture*
PICTURE PAGE ONE: “Telescopes” Paste 6-8 cool telescopes pictures onto a blank MS word page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE PAGE TWO: “Seasons” Paste 6-8 cool seasons pics onto a blank MS word page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE PAGE THREE: “Celestial Sphere” Paste 6-8 cool celestial sphere pics onto a blank page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE PAGE FOUR: “Moon Phases” Paste 6-8 cool moon phases pictures on a blank MS word page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE PAGE FIVE: “Sun” Paste 6-8 cool Sun pictures on a blank MS word page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE Pg VI: “Solar System” Paste 6-8 cool solar system pictures onto a blank MS word page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE Pg VII: “Galaxies” Paste 6-8 cool galaxy pictures onto a blank page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE Pg VIII: “Mars” Paste 6-8 cool Mars pictures onto a blank MS word page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE Pg IX: “U.S. Space Program” Paste 6-8 cool space program pics onto a blank MS word page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
PICTURE Pg X: “The Moon” Paste 6-8 cool moon pictures on a blank MS word page.
Beneath each picture, type 1-2 interesting facts.
View DVD MEDIA
* Watch any of the programs listed below. Write a 12-question quiz (w/ answers) for each program viewed *
DVD #1: “95 Worlds and Counting”, Discovery Channel
“Go to where the real action is ..... the moons! Discover Europa; a moon that may have the only other liquid
water ocean in the solar system. There are moons so small that a good jump sends you a mile or more into the air!
DVD #2: “Destiny in Space”, IMAX
“In the vast blackness of space, Earth (our home) appears tiny and beautiful amidst a sparkling background of
stars. Could we leave Earth and travel to new worlds ourselves? Are we alone in the universe?
DVD #3: “Solar Max”, IMAX
All the images in this film are real. So, adjust your sun glasses, and prepare to see our Sun,
an average star, in all its beauty and violence .... violence that peaks every 11 years as a “SOLARMAX”!
DVD #4: “Roving Mars”, Disney IMAX
“On January 3, 2004, a small rover named Spirit, cushioned inside a bunch of balloons, hurtled through the
martian atmosphere and crash-landed onto the dusty surface of Mars. It’s twin, Opportunity was close behind.
DVD #5: “Space Station”, IMAX
Climb aboard the space shuttle and head for orbit and a rendezvous with the ISS, the international space station.
We’ll follow the astronauts as they go about their scientific duties while orbiting 220 miles above Earth!
DVD #6: “400 Years of the Telescope”, PBS Science Special,
Follow the history of the telescope from the days of Copernicus to recent findings from the Hubble Telescope.
DVD #7: “Monster of the Milky Way”, NOVA
Does a supermassive black hole lurk at the center of our Milky Way galaxy?
DVD #8: “Hubble’s Amazing Rescue”, NOVA
In the spring of 2009, NASA sent a shuttle crew on a risky mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
The astronauts must carry out the first ever in-space repairs of Hubble’s defective instruments, a daunting task.
DVD #9: “The Search for Longitude”, NOVA
Based on the best-selling book Longitude by Dava Sobel, this is the story of how an unknown genius, John
Harrison, discovered the key to navigating the open seas and solved one of civilization’s greatest challenges.
DVD #10: “The Life and Death of a Star”, The UNIVERSE (season 1)
Ignited by the power of the atom, burning with light, heat and wrath, stars are anything but peaceful. They
collide, devour each other, and explode in enormous supernovas--the biggest explosions in the Universe.
DVD #11: “Nasa Moon Landing Hoax”, MYTH BUSTERS (season 6)
On this episode of Myth Busters, the team tackles the tallest tale of all in Moon Landing Hoax Hour.
Did NASA pull off the greatest cover-up in human history?
DVD #12: “The Search for Cosmic Clusters”, The UNIVERSE (season 4)
They are the one-stop-shopping places for learning all about the nature and variety of stars. Clusters are unique,
as all their stars were born at about the same time, from the same material & are about the same distance away.
DVD #13: “Another Earth”, The UNIVERSE (season 3)
Could we be unique in the universe or is there another planet similar to earth somewhere in the cosmos?
Is it possible that Alpha Centauri, our nearest star, is home to another earth-like planet?
DVD #14: “The Moon”, The UNIVERSE (season 1)
Our Moon! It's so close...yet so far away. For thousands of years, mankind has found comfort in its presence.
It's been a lantern for nighttime travelers...a timekeeper for farmers...and a target for space exploration.
DVD #15: “Secrets of the SUN”, The UNIVERSE (season 1)
There are billions of stars in the Universe, but one alone dominates our celestial neighborhood, the Sun.
It's so large that within its boundaries you could fit one million Earths. The Sun is a source of tremendous energy.
INDEPENDENT PROJECTS
* complete any of the projects listed below*
Project #1: Observatory Road Trip
Put together a brochure detailing a family vacation/road trip to two famous U.S. observatories.
(Or, make a visit to an Observatory with your parents, save your entrance ticket, and take three pictures).
Project #2: Space Exploration COMIC BOOK (8 pages)
Use your artistic talents to sketch some humorous comics that tell the story of space exploration.
Project #3: MODEL Rocket (or Mars Rover)
Build your own model rocket. Kits are available at Hobby Lobby (as well as other places). Recommended
kits included: “Big Bertha” , “Nova Payloader”, & “Stinger”. Other kits that have balsa wood fins and
paper body tubes are fine (however; no plastic snap-together kits). Most kits range in cost from $10-$15.
It is not necessary for you to purchase an expensive rocket.
Plans and materials can be provided for a homemade rocket, including a giant Saturn V moon rocket.
Another option is to construct a model of one of the Mars rovers (ex. Spirit, Opportunity).
Project #4: ART POSTER of the Solar System , the S u n , or Our Place in the Universe.
For this project, you will fill a poster board (20” x 30”) with drawings, sketches, diagrams, or pictures.
You have four choices: 1. The Earth, Sun, & Moon
2. Stars
3. Constellations
4. Galaxies
Project #5: Student ASTRONOMER
You will organize a star party of your own. You must bring at least 8 friends/family with you.
Find a virtual sky map to see what’s up in the night sky this time of year. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
Determine at least six targets that you want to find and observe. Check with your teacher to see if he/she can
help you by providing a telescope and/or technical support. Bring your own telescope(s) if you want!
Record your event on digital images/video.
Project #6: Astronomy MAGAZINE or MINI-BOOK
Publish a 4 page magazine or mini-book about some of the most interesting astronomy topics.
Your magazine should contain accurate facts, cool pictures, and/or fun activities. (4 pg minimum, 8 pg max).
Project #7: Your Own Idea?
Discuss your own idea with your teacher advisor. Get your idea “OK’d” before you start on it.
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