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Agenda Feb 9 and 10
Learning Target: I will be able to describe dark energy
and Dark matter
Vocabulary: Dark matter Dark energy
Cool news: Dark energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THT_BAdKe6g
1. Probing what you can not see—Dark Matter
2. Dark matter and energy notes
3. End of class: How might you compare dark
matter and Dark energy?
Research assignment (this will be instead of a test
on this unit! Due Feb 17: 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
Write good answers to Review and discussion
questions 7, 8, 9 and 10.
You must turn these in by February 17