2024-2025 GHHS ASTRONOMY CALENDAR

ASTRONOMY - SEPTEMBER 2024
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
2 LABOR DAY	3 WELCOME BACK	4 INTRODUCTION 01	5 INTRODUCTION 02 OBSERVATION TONIGHT!	6 SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS OBSERVATION TONIGHT!	7	8
9 THE OUTSER SOLAR SYSTEM	10 THE FORMATION OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM	11 OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: Fine Arts Edition	12 OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: Fine Arts Edition - Continues	13 PRESENTATION DAY	14	15
SOLAR SYSTEM REVIEW & PRESENTATION REFLECTION	17 MOONS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM	18 EUROPA!	19 SOLAR SYSTEM 08	20 SOLAR SYSTEM 09	21	22
23 INTRO TO COSMOLOGY	24 COSMOLOGY - THE FIRST 3 MINUTES	25 Solar System Test Returns	26 INTRO TO THE END OF THE COSMOS	27 The Last Question - Reading & Discussion	28	29
30 END OF THE COSMOS (Discussion)

ASTRONOMY - OCTOBER 2024
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
	1 FORMATIVE QUIZ REVIEW & DISCUSSION	2 THE END OF TIME	3 THE END OF TIME (Con't)	4 THE END OF ETERNITY (Con't)	5	6
7 COSMOLOGY UNIT TEST REVIEW	8 COSMOLOGY UNIT TEST	9 INTRODUCTION TO STARS	10 FUSION IN STARS	11 H-R DIAGRAMS	12	13
14 STAR COMPARISONS	15 SPACEX & EUROPA CLIPPER LAUNCHES	16 PSAT Today	17 LIFE-CYCLES OF STARS	18 FINE ARTS PROJECT!	19	20
21 STARS & SUPER NOVAE - Find Arts Concludes	22 LIFE OF A PROTON	23 PROJECT WORK TIME	24 PROJECT WORK TIME	25 PROJECT WORK TIME	26	27
28 STARS & LIFE ZONES	29 STARS & LIFE ZONES	30 TEST REVIEW	31 STARS TEST

ASTRONOMY - NOVEMBER 2024
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
				1 INTRO TO SETI - Contact	2	3
4	5	6 ANALYZING THE FILM	7 SETI Conversations	8 SETI Conversations	9	10
11 Veteran's Day	12 SETI Article	13 SETI Article (Continues)	14 ADVANCED SETI ARTICLE (ContinuStars Unit Test (Retakes- 6:30 AM)	15Stars Unit Test (Retakes- 6:30 AM)	16	17
18 CONTACT - Advanced SETI Article Review	19 SETI First Contact	20 Space Travel - In Theory & Practice)	21 Exoplanets	22 Exoplanets & Space Shields	23	24
25 LINK 85	26 SETI TEST	27 THANKSGIVING BREAK	28 THANKSGIVING BREAK	29 THANKSGIVING BREAK	30

ASTRONOMY - DECEMBER 2024
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
2 Intro to Observing	3 Stellarium	4 Observing Plans (con't)	5 LINK 94	6 LINK 95	7	8
9 The Great Astronomy Imaging Project	10 The Great Astronomy Imaging Project (Continues)	11 The Great Astronomy Imaging Project (Continues)	12 The Great Astronomy Equipment Scavenger Hunt Begins	13 Our Equipment Review (Con't)	14	15
16 Astrophotography Equipment Quiz	17 Astrophotography Equipment Quiz	18 Awesome Amature Astrophotograph	19 Awesome Amature Astrophotograph	20 Advanced Problem Solving Seminar	21	22
23 LINK 112	24 LINK 113	25 LINK 114	26 LINK 115	27 LINK 116	28	29
30 LINK 112	31 LINK 113

ASTRONOMY - JANUARY 2025
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
		1	2	3	4	5
6 WELCOME BACK!	7 MTM Continues	8 MTM Continue	9 The Martian (Begins)	10 The Martian (Ends) OBSERVATION TONIGHT	11	12
13 Big 5 Mind Map Begins	14 MARS Structures	15 MARS Structures - Air & Water	16 MARS Structures - Energy & Food	17 BIG 5 Web Project Begins	18	19
20 MLK Celebration	21 BIG 5 Web Project Concludes	22 GETTING TO MARS	23 GETTING TO MARS (Con't)	24 STAYING ON MARS	25	26
27 REVIEW	28 MISSION TO MARS TEST	29 DOME DESIGN	30 DOME DESIGN	31

ASTRONOMY - FEBRUARY 2025
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
					1	2
3 WELCOME!	4 INTRO - Activities	5 Picture Tile Sorting	6 Planets Activity	7 Size & Scale in our Solar System	8	9
10 Size & Scale in our Solar System (Con't)	11 Birth of the Solar System	12 The Solar System: Fine Arts Edition	13 The Solar System: Fine Arts Edition	14 Dwarf Planets	15	16
17 Mid-Winter	18 Mid-Winter Break	19 Mid-Winter Break	20 Mid-Winter Break	21 Mid-Winter Break	22	23
SOLAR SYSTEM (Review)	25 SOLAR SYSTEM (Unit Test)	26 Introducing STARS	27 Types of STARS & The Elements	28 Properties of Stars

ASTRONOMY - MARCH 2025
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
3 LIfecycles of Stars & Formative Quiz	4 Death of Stars	5 Comparing Stars & Solar System Test Returns	6 Star Comparisons Art Work!	7 Star Comparisons Art Work!	8	9
10 Introducing Nebulae	11 Nebulae "Gallery Walks"	12 REVIEW	13 STARS UNIT TEST	14 Teacher Day	15	16
17 Introducing the Big Bang	18 The Big Band - First 3 Minutes	19 The Big Bang - First Billion Years (or so!)	20 Intoducing Red Shift	21 Graphing Distant Galaxy Red Shifts Activity	22	23
24 Red Shift Graphing Concludes/Intro to the End of The Universe	25 The End of The Universe (Part I)	26 The Last Question (Asimov Reading)	27 The End of the Universe (continues)	28 The End of the Universe - Fine Arts Edition	29	30
31 LINK 208

ASTRONOMY - APRIL 2025
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
	1 OUAP Project	2 OUAP Project	3 OUAP Project	4 OUAP Project	5	6
7 Testing	8 Cosmology Review/ Cosmology Test	9 Intro to SETI	10 Testing	11 CONTACT (Concludes)	12	13
14 SPRING BREAK	15 SPRING BREAK	16 SPRING BREAK	17 SPRING BREAK	18 SPRING BREAK	19	20
21 TAKEAWAYS FROM 'CONTACT'	22 DRAKE EQUATION & FERMI'S PARADOX	23 Analyzing Fermi's Paradox	24 Analyzing Fermi's Paradox (Con't)	25 The Kardashev Scale	26	27
28 The Kardashev Scale (Continues)	29 LINK 236	30 LINK 237

ASTRONOMY - MAY 2025
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
			1 ALIENS?	2 Introducing Astrobiology	3	4
5 Analyzing Fermi	6 Review	7 UNIT TEST	8 Intro to Observations Cosmology Retakes (6:30 AM)	9 The Great Astronomy Imaging Project (intro) Cosmology Retakes (6:30 AM)	10	11
12 The Great Astronomy Imaging Project (intro)	13 The Great Astronomy Imaging Project (Begins)	14 The Great Astronomy Imaging Project (Continues)	15The Great Astronomy Imaging Project (Continues)	16 The Great Astronomy Imaging Project (Continues)	17	18
19 Block Schedule (no class today)	20 Catch Up Day	21 Intrdoduction to Observing	22 Observing (Con't)	23 Observing (Con't)	24	25
26 MEMORIAL DAY	27 Observing (Practicum & Observation Plan)	28 Observing (Practicum & Observation Plan) Continued	29 Practicum Quiz	30 Clear Skies Chart Practice	31

ASTRONOMY - JUNE 2025
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
2 Observation Plan/Clear Skies Practicum Quiz	3 Observation Plan/Clear Skies Practicum Quiz (Concludes)	4 Mission to Mars - The Martian	5 Mission to Mars - Film Analysis	6 Mission to Mars (Shelter) -- Yearbook Day	7	8
9 Mission to Mars (Food/Water/Air/Energy)	10 Mission to Mars (Mind Map Project Begins)	11 Mission to Mars (Mind Map Project Continues)	12 Senior's Last Day Mind Map Project Due	13 Intro to Rocketry	14	15
16 Rockets (con't)	17 Rockets (con't)	18 Rockets (con't)	19 JuneTeenth	20 Pau Hana	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
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