Article/Video Links by Chapter
Ch 1 Charting the HeavensSimulations/ActivitiesInteractive: "Seasons"
Interactive: "Lunar Phases"
Interactive: "Penumbra / Umbra"
ArticlesArticle: "Constellations of the Western Zodiac"
Article by Mr. Jeter: "It's Written in the Stars"
Article:: "How the Ecliptic and the Zodiac Work"
Article" "Star Names", Space.com Dec'14
Article: "7 Biggest Mysteries in Physics"
Crash CourseTED TalksVideosVideo:: "Constellations" S2, Ep. 10
The Universe Video: "Total Eclipse" - Season 5, Ep. 7
Video clip: "Viewing a Solar Eclipse" (3 minutes)
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Ch 2a A Brief History of AstronomyCitizen ScienceCrash Course, # 13 Tycho vs Kepler, Galileo
VideosVideo: "History and Science of Ancient Astronomy" - The Great Courses
Video: "Ancient Greek Astronomy"
Video (3 min.) - Kepler's 1st Law
Video (2 min.) - **Kepler's 2nd Law
Video (1 min.) - Kepler's 2nd Law
ArticlesArticle: "Astronomy of Ancient Cultures"
Article: "Nabta Playa - World's First Astronomical Site"
Article: "Setting Earth Free" (in class)
Download Article: "Copernicus" Setting Earth Free
Download Article: "Tycho Brahe" Setting Earth Free
Download Article: "Kepler" Setting Earth Free
Ch. 2b Space ScienceSimulations/ActivitiesInteractive: "Gravity Cannonball Challenge!"
Interactive: "Kepler's 2nd Law"
Interactive: "Kepler's 3rd Law"
Interactive: "Escape Velocity"
Crash Course# 5 Newton's Laws
VideosVideo: "Gravity" - S2, Ep. 17 The Universe
Video: "The Edge of Space" S3, Ep. 11 The Universe
TED TalksArticlesArticle by Mr. Jeter: "Are You on Board with the New Space Race?"
Article about Mr. Jeter's flight: "Sky High School"
Article: "Elon Wants SpaceX on Mars by 2022"
Article: "Pod Wins Hyperloop Competition"
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Ch 3 TelescopesCrash CourseVideosVideo: "400 Years of the Telescope"
(in class only) Mr. Jeter on Radio / YouTubeTED TalksArticlesGallery "Top 10 Largest Telescopes"
Article about Mr. Jeter's trip: "ACEAP in Chile"
Wikipedia Table - "Historically Important Telescopes"
Article: New JWST Image of Jupiter
Article: "Wired Astronomy" (in class"
Article: "James Webb Space Telescope"
Article: "From Space to School" (in class
Article: "Hubble's Greatest Achievements" (in class)
Article: WFIRST - New Flagship Telescope
Article: "Radio Astronomy's Big Data Boom"
Article: Monster Scopes
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Ch 4 Mercury & the MoonCrash CourseVideosVideo: "Mysteries of the Moon" S2, Ep. 3
The Universe Video Clip (13 min.) - Apollo 11
ArticlesArticle: "Does Mercury Hold Clues..."
Article: "Mercury is No Dead Planet"
Article: "Our Two-Faced Moon" - Sky & Telescope - Download here:
Article: "What Should We Do w the Moon?" - (in class only)
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Ch 5 Venus & MarsCitizen ScienceSimulations / GamesInteractive: "Retrograde Motion"
Crash CourseTED TalksVideosVideo clip: 7 Minutes of Terror
ArticlesArticle: DAVINCI Mission
Article: "10 Weirdest Facts About Venus"
Article: "Life on Venus?" - Sept. 2020
Article: "US, Russia Mission to Venus?"
Article: "Japanese Spacecraft Arrives at Venus" Space.com, Dec.. 2015
Article: "Mission to Mars: All Plans..."
Article: "Mars Rover Curiosity Top 7..."
Article: "8 Cool Tourist Sites Mars"
Article: "Mars Curiosity: Facts and Information" Space.com, March 2015
Article: "MAVEN: Lost Atmosphere..."
Space.com, Nov. 2015 Article: "Mars Insight Mission" Space.com - Aug. 2014
Article: "Face to Face w a Giant" (class)
Article: "2018 Launch of InSight"
Article: "Dark Streaks in Martian Craters"
Article: "Mars Ice Home"
Article: "The Race to Mars"
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Ch 6 The Outer PlanetsCitizen ScienceCitizen Science: "Backyard Worlds: Planet 9"
Simulations/ActivitiesInteractive: "Solar System Builder"
Crash CourseVideos Video: "Jupiter: The Giant Planet"
S1, Ep. 4, The Universe Video: "Life on Europa" - PBS short
Video: "Saturn: Lord of the Rings"
S1, Ep. 8 The Universe Video: "The Outer Planets"
S1, Ep. 11 The Universe ArticlesArticle: "JUNO Spacecraft"
Article: Jupiter Rediscovered
Article: "Jupiter Just Got Hit..."
Article: "Cassini-Huygens" - Space.com, 2017
Article: "Captured Moons of the Giant Planets" - Astronomy Magazine, 2011
Article PDF - Neptune Rising
PLUTO DEBATEVIDEO: Pluto & Beyond - PBS
VIDEO: TED Talk - Planet 9
Article: "Pluto's Amazing Story" - Sky & Tel. - Oct. 2016
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Ch 7 Solar System DebrisCitizen ScienceSimulations / GamesCrash CourseVideosVideo: "It Fell from Space" This one may have to be watched in class.
TED TalksArticlesArticle: "Asteroid is Alien Visitor"
Article: "Ceres... Closest Dwarf Planet"
Article: "Floating Asteroid Colony..."
Article: "Goodbye, Rosetta!"
Article: OSIRIS-REX Overview (2023)
Article: "Meteorite-Made Relics..."
Article: "Meteors that Changed the World" (in class, or download PDF)
Article: Deep into Dawn - Ceres
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Ch 8 The SunCitizen ScienceActivities / SimulationsCrash CourseVideosVideo: "Secrets of the Sun"
Video: "Magnetic Storm" - In class
Video clip: "Earth's Magnetic Pole Flip"
TED TalksArticlesArticle" "Here Comes the Sun" - In class
Article: Near Limitless Clean Power
Article - "Major Breakthrough in Fusion"
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Ch 9 Measuring the StarsCitizen ScienceActivities/SimulationsBlackbody Curve Interactive - Try it!
Online Stellar Spectrum Activity - Try it!!
Interactive: "Bohr Atom"
Interactive: "Doppler Effect"
Crash CourseVideosVideo: "Sisters of the Sun" (in class only)
Video (5 min.) - VFX Artist - Size of Stars
TED TalksArticlesInfographic: How to Tell Star Types Apart
Article: "What is Parallax?"
Article: "How Far the Stars?"
Article: "Starlight Detectives" (PDF only)
Image: Gaia Spacecraft's Sky Map
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Ch 10 ExoplanetsCitizen ScienceSimulations/ActivitiesKepler Exoplanet Transit Hunt!! - Try it!
Kepler Interactive Activity (in class only)
Crash CourseVideosVideo: "Alien Planets" S2, Ep. 1 Universe
Video: "Another Earth" S3, Ep 9 Universe
Video: "The Search for a Second Earth" - How the Universe Works
Video clip: "TESS" (4 min. YouTube)
TED TalksArticlesArticle: Potential Hab. Planet 31 ly Away
Article: "NASA's Kepler Discovers 1st..."
Article: Wolf 1061: Super-Earth 14 Light Years Away
Article: "10 Exoplanets... Could Host Life"
Article: "Meet TESS"
Article: " 7 Earth-sized Worlds!"
Article: "8 Newfound Alien Worlds"
Article: "Hunt for Aliens... 'Transit Zone'"
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Ch 11 STARSCitizen ScienceSimulations / ActivtiesInteractive: "Binary Stars"
Crash CourseVideosVideo: "Nebulas" S2, Ep 14 Universe
Video: "Dark Future of the Sun"
S5, Ep 8 The Universe Video: "The Life and Death of a Star" - Pt 1 S1, Ep The Universe
ArticlesArticle: "Star Facts: Stellar Evolution
Article: "Sextuple Star Systems"
Article: "What Are Star Clusters?"
Article: "Weirdo Stellar Corpses w Creamy Filling"
Article: "X-Treme Stars of the Cosmos"
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Ch 12 The End of StarsCitizen ScienceSimulations / ActivitiesInteractive: "Gravitational Lensing"
Video ClipsSciShow - NOVA Explained
Crash CourseVideosVideo: "Cosmic Holes" S2, Ep 2 Universe
Video: "Supernovas", the Universe S2
Video: "Death Stars" S4, Ep 1 Universe
Video: "The Life and Death of a Star" - Pt 2 The Universe
Video: "A Sky Full of Ghosts" - Cosmos Series (in class only)
YouTube video: "Binary Star Collision Produces Light, Gravitational Waves"
Video: "Riddle of the Black Holes" -
Through the Wormhole (in class only) TED TalksArticlesArticle: "What is a Supernova?"
Article: "What is a Black Hole?"
Article: "The Truth About Black Holes" - Nat'l Geographic
Article: "What Happens at the Center of a Black Hole?"
Article: "The Science of Interstellar"
Article: "Jocelyn Bell Rewarded (Finally)"
Article: "GRB in a Galaxy Far Away"
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Ch 13 GALAXIESCitizen ScienceSimulations/ActivitiesInteractives: "Dark Matter"
Crash CourseVideosVideo: "The Milky Way" - Universe, S2
(in class only) Video: "Alien Galaxies"
S1, Ep 9 The Universe TED TalksArticlesArticle: "Milky Way's Structure Mapped"
Article: "What is Dark Matter?"
Space.com, May 2013 Article: "Farthest Galaxy Yet Smashes..."
Article: "How Many Galaxies Are There?"
Space.com, April 2014 Article: "Giant Galaxies May Be Better Cradles for Habitable Planets"
Space.com, Aug. 2015 |
Ch 14 CosmologyCitizen ScienceCitizen Science: "Space Warps"
Simulations/ActivitiesInteractive: Scale of the Universe 2
Interactive: Scale of the Universe 1
Interactive: "Cosmology"
Infographic: "History & Structure of Univ."
Crash CourseVideosVideo: "Dark Matter" S2, Ep 6 Universe
Video: "Is There an Edge to the Universe?" - Through the Wormhole, S2
Video: "Microscopic Universe" S6, Ep 12 The Universe
TED TalksArticlesArticle: "Dark Energy Getting Weaker?" Space.com 2024
Article: "Hubble Constant Controversy" Sky & Tel. -June 2019 (Hard copy only)
Article: "What is Cosmology?"
Space.com June, 2012 Article; "Hubble Constant Discrepancy"
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Ch 15 Life in the UniverseCrash CourseVideosVideo: "Search for E.T."
S1, Ep 13 The Universe Video: "Astrobiology" S2, Ep 7 Universe
TED TalkArticlesArticle: "The Drake Equation - What Are the Odds of Aliens?" - Astronomy, 2018
Article: "The Great Filter"
Space.com, April 2014 |