Monday, January 13, 2014

Week of January 13, 2014 ( minus Friday)


Space FOOD
http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/how-do-they-do-it/videos/how-do-they-do-it-space-food.htm

Monday & part of Tuesday- Present ISS Keynotes.
Due: worksheet over keynotes.

More ISS !
http://iss.jaxa.jp/kids/en/life/

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ISSRG/

Tour of ISS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doN4t5NKW-k
 Play with your food-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazzp4XluQs
Water experiments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntQ7qGilqZE



Thursday- Finish ISS presenations
Go over experimental controls.
Field trip permission forms & details.
Discuss homework assignment.
Writing assignment-
Think of an experiment you would like to do on the ISS in microgravity. What would be the control?  Write eight sentences ( minimum). Be sure you write complete sentences that make sense.

ISS worksheet due with homework assignment Friday.

Friday-
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segwayed/lessons/CometsTale/com.html
Begin spectroscopy.
EMS Reading-
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html 
List the 7 types of waves from lowest energy to highest energy.
Define photon.
Why do we put telescopes in orbit?

Watch closely-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_KyYFYNvpI


SPECTROSCOPY- the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra
SPECTRA- the group of colors that a ray of light can be separated into including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet : the colors that can be seen in a rainbow
SPECTROSCOPE- an instrument for forming and examining spectra especially in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum 

SPECTROSCOPY LAB- Monday

Online analysis of minerals in space- Mars and Moon
read background ... do activity
http://ser.sese.asu.edu/SPECTRA/index.html
In notability-
1. read background information
2. what is albedo?
3. find a picture of each of these minerals.


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