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Students will have an opportunity to learn about the inner planets, namely, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. We will identify each planet’s pattern of rotation and the length of each along with each period of revolution, as we will focus on … Continue reading →

Students who wish to earn extra credit may choose to take an active part and participate in the creation of a poster-project based on the solar system, using the attached, simplified outline as a reference point on its requirements. Actual … Continue reading →

The students will construct and explain orally the layers of the sun by using their textbook, notebook, pencil, construction paper, scissors, ruler, and glue to simulate the makeup of the sun based on its characteristics. Students are expected to complete … Continue reading →

Students are to complete the five (5) assigned Frayer models on the terms below. Remember that each term needs to be defined in your own words after understanding its meaning, provide two characteristics, as well as an example or illustration, … Continue reading →

Students will have an opportunity to learn about our star: The Sun. Students will focus upon the sun’s basic structure and composition, how it generates energy, and describe its activity and how this activity affects our planet, Earth. Students are … Continue reading →

NOTE: STUDENTS ARE NOT BEING TESTED ON SECTION 5 OF CHAPTER 4, SMALL SOLAR BODIES, SINCE WE WILL BE HAVING A TEST ON CHAPTER 4, SECTIONS 1, 2, 3, AND 5 AS WELL AS OUR SUN, SECTION 2 OF CHAPTER … Continue reading →

Due to your ongoing dilly-dallying during 4th hour in the last  fifteen (15) minutes of class, you are to go online (no books will be borrowed) and complete the following Chapter review at home: Astronomy  Chapter 2: Review Answer the … Continue reading →

Effective with our next classroom science video, students are to follow the attached handout whenever students view a new topic that will normally counts for a classwork score. Therefore, each student is expected to have a copy of the attached … Continue reading →

BELLWORK #32 Briefly answer the following questions. 1) Contrast a white dwarf with a red giant in terms of their                                 characteristics. 2) Examining the … Continue reading →

NOTE: STUDENTS ARE NOT BEING TESTED ON SECTION 5 OF CHAPTER 4, SMALL SOLAR BODIES, SINCE WE WILL BE HAVING A TEST ON CHAPTER 4, SECTIONS 1, 2, 3, AND 5 AS WELL AS OUR SUN, SECTION 2 OF CHAPTER … Continue reading →