Complete Astronomy Unit V "The Outer Planets"

Four complete, up-to-date and inclusive PowerPoint lessons (with slide sorter notes for the instructor) and a kahoot.it interactive quiz/review and a Quizizz.com activity at the end of each lesson. Five ActivInspire review programs with printable color PDF worksheets. Multiple student lab and reading activities including webquests and suggested textbook assignments. Some worksheets are based on the textbook "Astronomy Today" 8th edition.

Assessments in this unit have been converted and can now (also) be given online and auto-graded through Easel. Graphics were added in Easel with each assessment to help with student understanding. Assessments include four quizzes (PDF, Word and Easel), one for each lesson and a 50-question unit test (in PDF, Word and Easel).

A video worksheet (Word) folder is included which provides the video link to youtube in the title if the DVD is not available. Five video worksheets with answer keys include the Universe TV series shows on "Jupiter," "Saturn," "Ride The Comet" "Uranus and Neptune" and "Hunting For Ringed Planets" and can be used when studying the topics in this unit. Students can answer the questions in order while watching each video (video link to youtube is included in the title).

Terms in this unit include:

Jupiter, Great Red Spot, zones, belts, white ovals, brown ovals, zonal flow, differential rotation, magnetic field, aurorae, Galilean moons, Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, oceans, volcanism (Io), Voyager, Galileo mission, Saturn, A, B, C rings, ringlets, helium precipitation, Cassini division, Encke gap, shepherd satellites, Roche limit, Titan, methane lakes, Enceladus, Cassini probe, Huygens probe, Dragonfly, Iapetus, Hyperion, Dione, Rhea, Uranus, Neptune, William Herschel, Voyager 2, 98 degree tilt, Great Dark Spot, ring systems, Titania, Oberon, Ariel, Umbriel, Miranda, Triton, ice volcanoes, stellar occultation, radiation darkening, 8th planet, Pluto, Charon, Styx, Kerberos, Nix, Hydra, Ceres, Kuiper belt, KBO's, Trans-Neptunian, dwarf planet, Oort cloud, asteroids, comets, Halley's Comet, coma, tail, nucleus, hydrogen envelope, meteors, meteoroids, meteorites, meteor shower, asteroid belt, Apophis, NEAR spacecraft, New Horizons spacecraft

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