Transcript Feb 17
Agenda Feb 17
Learning Target: I can describe black matter
Vocabulary:
Cool news:
1. Time for research for essays—essays due next
class period
2. Dark matter and energy notes-Dark matter
tutorial
3. Go over notebook check due next class
Research assignment (this will be instead of a test
on this unit! Due Feb 18: Pick one of the following
and write a 5 paragraph essay. Must have four
sources:
A) research and describe the historical development of the Big
Bang Theory, including red shift, cosmic microwave background
radiation, and other supporting evidence;
(B) research and describe current theories of the evolution of the
universe, including estimates for the age of the universe; and
(C) research and describe scientific hypotheses of the fate of the
universe, including open and closed universes and the role of dark
matter and dark energy.
Possible Sources
Dark Energy website: experiments at McDonald Observatory
Audio and Video resources from the +Texas Cosmology Center
History of Cosmology website from American Institute of Physics
Cosmic Times a NASA project on Cosmology
Homework:
UW
Read and take Cornell notes: Pg. 661-679
You must turn these in by February 17