Before class preparation

• Are there constellations during the day? What about during different seasons?
• How can we tell a planet from a star in the night sky?
• BYOD for Kahoots!
• Videos:
  • Is Pluto a Planet?
  • Star size comparison

In class activity

• Finish “Using Constellations”
• Finding Saturn in the constellation Leo
• “Seasonal constellations”
  • Identify simple astronomical phenomena (revolution, rotation, gravitation..etc)
  • Identify the names different things we can see in the night sky (stars, planets, constellations, asterisms…etc)
• Introduction to Scale of the Universe assignment
• Kahoots!

After class work

• For next class:
  • What is the largest object that you can think of?
  • What is the smallest object that you can think of?
• Video: Retrograde motion of Mars