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=Rosedale Grade 9 Science - Earth and Space Science: The Study of the Universe= Go home to the Rosedale Gr 9 Science Homepage Check out the resources at [|Science Canada website] [|Skyview app download]

Youtube video: Space Oddity performed by Chris Hadfield on the ISS (5:30) Youtube video: Chris Hadfield wringing out a cloth (3:17) Introduction to Astronomy, objects in the solar system, rotation and revolution [|Space traveling planarian grows 2nd head]
 * **Date** || **Lesson Topic/Description** || **Textbook Pages** ||
 * May 25/24 || Activity: What do you know about astronomy?

Video - Discovery TV - Space School: The Solar System (4:19) Video - National Geographic: Solar System 101 (3:20) Video - Crash Course on the Solar System (10 minutes) [|Quirks and Quarks - How 11 deaf volunteers helped launch the space age] || 400-402, 404-405, 420, 430-433, 438-439 || Life cycle of stars
 * May 27/26 || Activity: Distances in the solar system

Video - To scale: The Solar System (7:07) Video - Discovery Channel: Birth of a Black Hole (6:43) [|Black Hole Formation and a 3rd gravitational wave - article] || 468-471 || Gizmos - HR Diagram
 * May 31/30 || Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

Graphing Activity: Apparent Brightness of Stars || 458-460 || Labelling parts of sun worksheet Sun graphing activity Video - Amazing Documentary and Discovery HD - The Sun (43:00) parts of the sun, sunspots, magnetic field, recent discoveries
 * June 1,3/2 || The Sun

Bill Nye video and worksheet Bill Nye - The Sun (20:00)

Videos National Geographic - Sun 101 (3:00) National Geographic - Solar Storms (2:46) National Geographic - Solar Eruptions in 3D (1:08) Videos on Aurora and solar research in Astronomy 2016 folder || 452-453 || [|The Big Bang Theory - NatGeo 5:30 min] [|Animation - The Big Dipper over 200,000 years] [|What is redshift? 4:30 min] Video - Ask an astronomer: What is a redshift? (2:28) Video - National Geographic: Birth of the Universe (46:00) || 476-479 || Gizmos: Doppler Shift demonstration Gizmo: Doppler Shift Demonstration Activity: Expanding universe Activity: spectroscopes and star spectra Finish watching National Geographic: Birth of the Universe. || 476-479 || Astronomy Culminating: watch Nova Origins: Back to the Beginning excerpt, read textbook pages on Big Bang [|PBS NOVA Origins: Watch from 3:50 - 13 min]
 * June 7/6 || The Big Bang Theory
 * June 9/8 || The Evidence of an Expanding Universe
 * June 13/10 || Astronomy Review

[|Right Stuff - Wrong Gender: the first 13 women to qualify for space in the 1960's] ||  ||
 * June 15/14 || Astronomy Culminating: Part 1 - Video and Reading Test for Nova Origins: Back to the Beginning (transcript provided), Part 2 - astronomy terms, life and death of stars, HR diagrams ||  ||

Wiki page for May - June 2012 Asteroid video [] and worksheet [] The interactive universe model, [] Gravity and orbit simulation [] Comet fact sheet and worksheet || 400-402, 430-433 404-405, 438-439 || Labelling parts of sun worksheet Sun graphing activity Bill Nye video and worksheet Clip One: [] Segement 2 and 3: [] Other Videos [] [] [] Nuclear fusion video from folder Aurora video from folder Solar prominence video from folder || 452-453, 458-460 || Hertz-Sprung Russell Diagram Brightness of a star activity Videos – [] [] Black hole video in folder Life cycle of stars animation- []
 * || **TOPIC**  ||  **CONCEPTS**  ||  **TEXTBOOK PAGES/RESOURCES**  ||
 * 1 || Introduction to Astronomy || Creating a concept map using astronomy definitions
 * 2 || The Sun || Parts of the Sun
 * 3 || The Life and Death of a Star || Phases in the Life of Stars

|| 468-471 || Video – expanding universe, Red Shift Expanding universe and star spectroscope activity || 476-479 ||
 * 4 || The Formation of the Universe || [[file:rosedalegrade9astronomy/04 Big Bang Theory.ppt|Big Bang Theory and supporting evidence]]
 * 5 || Review ||  ||   ||