REAL Science Odyssey: Astronomy 2 Student Pages
Short Description
Grade Level: 6th–10th grade
Astronomy 2 Student Pages | REAL Science Odyssey Homeschool Astronomy
Format: PDF, color interior (Available only as an eBook)
Pages: 133
Grade level: Appropriate for 6th–10th grade
Product type: eBook of the Student Pages to use with the RSO Astronomy Level Two course
What are the Student Pages?
The Real Science Odyssey Astronomy 2 Student Pages provide an additional copy of the pages from the Astronomy 2 course that are consumable. This includes all of the lab sheets, Show What You Know quizzes, Famous Science Series research assignments, and Unit Tests found in the main student textbook. The Student Pages are intended for those using the textbook with more than one student. They do not provide anything "extra" to the course.
RSO Astronomy 2 Student Pages
RSO Astronomy 2 Student Pages, written by Blair Lee M.S., is a comprehensive astronomy course at the middle school- to high school-level (grades 6 through 10). But unlike many science textbooks, RSO Astronomy 2 is not a dry collection of facts and worksheets, but rather an in-depth course that engages young people's minds while they actively participate in learning astronomy.
RSO Astronomy 2 Student Pages has been created specially for home and small group use. The course assumes no science background for teacher or student, and there's no need for an expensive laboratory. Astronomy 2 uses natural settings that encourage students to explore the world and the sky around them. The materials needed for labs and activities are commonly found items.
The course is contained in two books (student text and teacher guide). The student text starts each chapter with an entertaining written lesson that is followed by several components intended to reinforce the lesson, address different learning styles, and engage students in hands-on learning and research. These components include lab sheets, lab reports, problem sets, activities, famous science research assignments, poetry, quizzes, and tests.
The teacher guide provides all the help a science novice needs to assist her student, including suggested course scheduling, summaries, additional material and explanations, sample reports, learning objectives, answers and suggestions, and test answer keys. Divided into 12 chapters, Astronomy 2 provides a complete semester-long astronomy course that is generally completed in 12 to 16 weeks. Some lab work, such as monitoring the sun and the moon over an extended period of time, is continued after completion of the main course.
RSO Astronomy Level 2 Topics:
- Light-year and astronomical unit
- Electromagnetic radiation and spectrum
- Tools of astronomy
- Space exploration
- Scientific modeling
- Enormity and size of the universe
- Big bang model and theory
- Doppler effect
- Origin and structure of matter and elements in the universe
- Black holes
- Dark matter
- Properties of light
- Structure, types, and origin of stars
- Law of universal gravitation
- Timeline of formation
- Structure
- Nebular hypothesis
- Conservation of momentum
- Heat transfer
- Life cycle of the sun
- Structure of the sun
- Planetary motion models (history)
- Kepler's laws
- Newton's laws
- General theory of relativity
- Accretion model
- Properties of the rocky planets
- Properties of the gaseous planets
- Planets' moons
- Shape of Earth
- Mapping a planet
- Interpreting topographic maps
- Formation and structure of early Earth
- Earth's rotation, tilt, and revolution
- Earth-sun-moon system
- Cause of the seasons
- Moon formation and structure
- Tidal effect of the moon
- Eclipses and moon phases
Important Copyright Information:
If you choose the eBook version of this course, you are purchasing a license to use the PDF for your own children. You may make copies for your own children, but you may not share (email, download, print and distribute, resell, etc.) this eBook or any portion of this eBook with others.
