RSO Astronomy 2 Teacher Guide
Unit I. Universe and Cosmology
Weblinks
An original, and a bit cheesy, song about the electromagnetic spectrum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOGNVH3D4Y&list=PL249113232EE15DCA
This 32-minute video from NASA is an introduction to electromagnetic radiation and some of the telescopes used to study them. It also discusses some of the discoveries using electromagnetic radiation that have led to a better understanding of the radiation. I highly recommend taking the time to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPcAWNlVl-8
This is a movie of some galaxies seen using the Hubble Space Telescope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXDVGi_lK0
Voyager at the Final Frontier from NASA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFnJzyxd78o
This is about the James Webb telescope that is under construction: http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAWebbTelescope
These are about the Mars Rover Curiosity from The Jet Propulsion Lab. If you like these there are many more from that source and from NASA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIpFgump7so, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boyXQuUIw, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8OUL9QYNpI, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUVmyI9yjyU
An hour-long video about a new kind of technology that warps space and time, so that distances in space are more accessible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M8yht_ofHc
Math This Week
A link to a series of free tutorials explaining the topic of scientific notation from Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/exponents-radicals/scientific-notation/v/scientific-notation
Lab- Model This: Investigating Shadows
Teaching pedagogy of the importance of modeling in science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDgulnEVE10
Podcast
This podcast is about the big bang: http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/10/episode-58-inflation/
Web/Video
Doppler effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ykNQijOC8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4OnBYrbCjY
Very good video explaining the scientific definition of the word theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItxVLu8J_d0
NASA demonstrates the big bang in 14 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOhzLnD1xW8
This long talk explains what led to the modern understanding of the formation and origin of the universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxjNlIZ5jM
On Edwin Hubble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVApTLE7Csc&list=TLFPLTR06xGZU
Proof for the big bang explained: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyCkADmNdNo
Weblinks
The mass versus weight song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whMAIGNq7E
The life cycle of stars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM9CQDlQI0A
Stephen Hawking: the Birth of Stars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EnBBIx6XkM
They use the period table in their explanation of nuclear fusion, which I really like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKqvjEE0wFg
Nuclear fusion in 2 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3Q98bolK8
Scientists are trying to make stars on earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgD5JZ02YGY
These adults cannot answer the question where the sun gets its energy, but I bet RSO students can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux33-5k8cjg
Nice explanation, good illustrations: Stars: The Life and Death of Stellar Fusion Engines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj5R81V2buM
Plasma explained: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkeSI_B5Ljc
The Birth of a Black Hole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8grTbzAo0PA
What is inside a black hole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYKyt3C0oT4
30 second video showing a Cepheid variable star: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caYeTinG2GM
Hubble’s view of a Cepheid variable star: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEHHFLxmazI
The International Space Station detects
dark matter (Neil deGrasse Tyson): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiSx9TzzLt4
A good black hole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de0r1UOQ8gc
Math this Week
There are several tutorials concerning calculations with the law of universal gravitation on YouTube. Here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-wKcp9ABU
Weblinks
Stephen Hawking on supernovas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXV9mtY1AoI
A song about the difference between
stars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCUS2uNGw7k
The H-R Diagram explained: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIoA1P30HrM
Explains emission and absorption spectrum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4yg4HTm3uk
Good video about spectroscopy of stars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_KyYFYNvpI
The parallax shift: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rqXj5CLFs
The parallax shift, a mathematical explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rqXj5CLFs
William Huggins: http://www.nndb.com/people/389/000103080/ and https://uh.edu/engines/epi1845.htm
Unit II. Our Solar System
Weblinks
How the Sun Will Die: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iauIP8swfBY
A rather advanced 49-minute video from NASA called “Crash Course on Our Solar System and Beyond.” This could be watched at the beginning or the end of this unit. About 15 minutes in it goes into information not covered in depth or at all in this text, but it is very interesting information: https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=QfOF0bRBFJ4
Pierre-Jules-César Janssen: http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele002.html
http://www.universetoday.com/53563/who-discovered-helium/
Book
Adventures in the Solar System: Planetron
and Me by Geoffrey
T. Williams. A link to the inexpensive audio book version: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E97ZVO/?tag=pandpres-20
Weblinks
A simulation of Kelper’s laws: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/flashlets/kepler6.htm and https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsHistory/page2.php
Newton’s laws of motion: http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=30232&CategoryID=281
For the Lego Maniacs out there: Newton’s laws with Legos: http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=30232&CategoryID=281
Lab- Kepler’s 1st Law: The Law of Ellipses
Before starting the lab, students watch this NASA video about Kepler, his laws, and the history of planetary models: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/video-view.cfm?Vid_ID=303
"Mysterious Orbit of Mercury” by Neil deGrasse Tyson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSXNE0pNtr8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSXNE0pNtr8
Two Scientists, a Theft, and a Possible Murder:
http://www.nndb.com/people/342/000086084/
http://www.nndb.com/people/559/000024487/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsHistory/page2.php
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/tycho.htm
Podcasts
I love to mix art with science. Here is the original radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g , about a purported Martian invasion of earth.
Here are podcasts about the planets, the asteroid belt and astronomy in science fiction:
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/08/episode-49-mercury/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/08/episode-50-venus/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/08/episode-51-earth/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/09/episode-52-mars/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/09/episode-55-the-asteroid-belt/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/09/episode-53-astronomy-in-science-fiction
Weblinks
This article describes how the mystery of Mercury’s orbit was solved: http://io9.com/the-200-year-old-mystery-of-mercurys-orbit-solved-1458642219
Planetary evolution video from NASA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOX2qKRiE6M
Stephen Hawking, Formation of the Solar System: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhy1fucSRQI&list=TL1QJ7tvOx6uQ
Very cool short video of one rotation of Mercury: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8497927473/?likes_hd=1
What spaceship Messenger saw as it left Earth on its way to Mercury: http://messenger-education.org/students/animations.php
NASA’s Messenger Mission homepage: http://messenger-education.org/students/animations.php
Venus crossed in between earth and the sun in 2012; here it is on video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9rM8ChTjY
Mars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlXuUxFTcLs
Views of Mars in this 25 minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgMXPXdqJn8
People might establish a colony on Mars. Here are a series of videos about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4tgkyUBkbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5k0MtlWPOs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74pA5YH-ehY
A game about training to go into space: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/492736/
This shows a view of what you would see if you were launched into space: http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/games/shuttle/
Weblinks
A good article about the Rosetta Mission that landed the spacecraft Philae on a comet: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/rosetta-philae-future-comet-missions/
During Galileo’s time the heliocentric model was called the Copernican model. Here is a brief history about Copernicus: http://www.biography.com/people/nicolaus-copernicus-9256984/videos/nicolaus-copernicus-mini-biography-35737155885
Two short videos about Galileo: http://www.history.com/topics/galileo-galilei/videos#beyond-the-big-bang-galileo-galilei
http://www.biography.com/people/galileo-9305220/videos/galileo-planetary-philosopher-19583043911
The Kuiper belt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZLtjyDVgYY
The Grand Tour of the Solar System: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHwJcuR-gPY
Jupiter’s moons are the topic of the next videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6W9RDK-jkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAejrPirGxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C84cYlHzn4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iaLQqdIw88
Saturn and its moon Titan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4LTFBO10Q
Saturn’s ring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnApR8fdKRo
Uranus’ tilt and its moons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73VkwP0dQbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtKKVpONlgs
Neptune’s moons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXJBdv4DRJE
Comet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZlenAvqLCI
Podcasts
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/10/episode-56-jupiter/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/10/episode-57-jupiters-moons/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/10/episode-59-saturn/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/11/episode-61-saturns-moons/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/11/episode-62-uranus/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/11/episode-63-neptune/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/11/episode-64-pluto-and-the-icy-outer-solar-system/
http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/12/episode-65-the-end-of-our-tour-through-the-solar-system/
Unit III. Homeward Bound
Weblinks
Either read or watch The Martian by Andy Weir. The main character Mark Watney is very good at reading a map! NASA even has a map of his journey: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/follow-mark-watney-s-epic-trek-on-mars-with-new-nasa-web-tool/
For the best source I found about topo maps go to: http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/ , for maps, videos, and tutorials
This is a great video tutorial about topo map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqPMYGDxCr0
Simple, but good instruction on map reading: http://www.nps.gov/webrangers/activities/readingmap/
An online article about mapping the universe in three dimensions: http://voyages.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Plate-Packet-Introduction-2015.pdf
The universe in 3-D: https://in-the-sky.org/ngc3d.php
This is the first of nine videos about understanding four-dimensional objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFVlzRE_3-o
A very good video about the basics of latitude and longitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKF6fYqh1OA
Mapping basics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=widWLhIIbzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DkiuaFCuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6aPerEPbvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-SWKtWEcU
A video showing how to geocache: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmuqyqDiGJU
Famous Maps
Astronomers have mapped the universe! When looking at the map of the universe you will notice it has a boundary, called containment. Beyond the containment is before time began. It is really fascinating stuff.
Detailed mapping of the universe: https://futurism.com/videos/detailed-map-date-place-universe/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlOjSQeO1Dg
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/our-science/research-areas/extragalactic-astronomy/local-universe/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/multimedia/pia16873.html#.VNz28vnF98E
Weblink
Geologic timescale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTHDHQ9eE5c
This is a series of 45-minute videos “How the Earth Was Made”: http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-earth-was-made
A seven-layer density experiment done by Steve Spangler, it is a good visual demonstrating differentiation based on density: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3kodeQnQvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyXDWG22MAI
A video by NASA called, Exploring Ozone. I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUfVMogIdr8&list=PL255992B774AC5C83
A lyrical video about geologic time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PQURsc2SYs&list=PLWWWr6aWugTXYsMlCK2tTnkTF-yOpj6ij
Famous day: http://www.wikihow.com/Celebrate-Earth-Day
Weblinks
Here is a nice article with an embedded video. The narrator goes into solar day and sidereal day, in addition to how fast Earth rotates. Plus he has funny little jokes that flash at times across the screen: http://www.universetoday.com/26623/how-fast-does-the-earth-rotate/
Good visual and explanation showing Earth’s movement through space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82p-DYgGFjI
Stonehenge and sun dials (for those who like history with their science): http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=14011&CategoryID=2793
Milankovitch cycles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFfwIOzVlh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbJrvtxWNE
Earth Has the Moves
The numbers for the total speed table came from the following sources: http://solar-center.stanford.edu/FAQ/Qsolsysspeed.html
Milankovich Cycles: Famous Movements Through Space: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Milankovitch/
Weblinks
NASA: Tour of the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iSZMv64wuU
NASA: Evolution of the Moon, there are no words with this just pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKmSQqp8wY
History Channel: The Phases of the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXseTWTZlks
A film of the total eclipse of the sun on 11/13/2012 is from Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHb5ruGUyw
Explains solar eclipses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_201ttTSG30
What is a Lunar Eclipse?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49O2MsT1txU
How do Tides Work?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohDG7RqQ9I
Synchronous rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZIB_leg75Q
Apollo Space Program
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/what-was-the-saturn-v-58.html#.Uv5WrvldUg8
http://www.ninfinger.org/rockets/catalogs/vr5105/vr5105.pdf
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/what-was-apollo-program-58.html#.Uv5Nl_ldUg8
