Transcript Due Feb 17 and 18

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
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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