Astronomy Project Packet

Project Overview/Description

• This Project will be broken up into two parts:

• 1. Part 1: Research using Mr. Ozeni's Webpages
  2. Part 2: Making of the Astronomy Project Comic Book
• In Part 1, you and your partner will be using Mr. Ozeni's Astronomy Project Webpage as a portal to do all of your research.  You will be researching many different objects in space using the research links that Mr. Ozeni has found for you.  You will be inserting the information in this project packet.
• In Part 2, you will be creating an astronomy comic book.  Remember Comic Books are funny and Witty. Use your creativity and humor. Nobody will want to read a dull comic, especially your science teacher.  You will be required to create some kind of theme or storyline while also being able to include ALL the research you gathered in Part 1.

Google Research notes

Partner 1: Wyatt Holtkamp

Planets Research Links:

• The Nine 8 Planets
• Zoom Astronomy - Statistics of planets
• Gas vs. Terrestrial Planets
• Planets and Gravity

I. The Planets

Satellites Research Links:

• The Nine 8 Planets
• Orbital Periods of Moons

  II. Satellites (moons):

Earth's Moon	Jupiter's Moon	Uranus' Moon
the moon	Europa	Oberon
Orbital period around the Planet? 27.32 days	Orbital period around the Planet? 3.55 days	Orbital period around the Planet? 13.46 days
its our only moon.	looks like a block of ice with a bunch of red cracks on the out side.	is littered with craters where other things in the solar system have hit its surfes

Small Bodies Research:

• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Differences between Asteroids and Meteors

us III. Small Bodies

Meteors/meteoroids	Asteroids
the only difference between the two is the fact that one is smaller and the other can be the size of a house or bigger	the asteroid belt is located in between mars and Jupiter.
shooting star	the two groups are called the inner group and the outer group

Outside the Solar System Research Links:

• Earth's Galaxy
• Death of a Huge Star
• Measuring Star to Star Distance

IV. Outside the Solar System:

Earth's Galaxy	Huge Star (make up a name for this star.  This is a fictional star.  I just want you to get real info of a Huge Star)
What is the name of Earth's galaxy? the milky way	What are the last two stages of the Huge star’s life cycle before it dies? Describe what happens in each stage the star will become a black dwarf after it becomes a red giant and just fizzels out.
What shape is this galaxy? spiral shape galaxy	What is the unit of measurement used to measure the distance from star to star? lightyears
How many stars live in our galaxy? nobody knows

Partner 2:JARED KUNZ

Planets Research Links:

• The Nine 8 Planets
• Zoom Astronomy - Statistics of planets
• Gas vs. Terrestrial Planets
• Planets and Gravity

I. The Planets

Satellites Research Links:

• The Nine 8 Planets
• Orbital Periods of Moons

  II. Satellites (moons):

Mars' Moon	Saturn's Moon	Neptune's Moon
phobos	pandora	despina
Orbital period around the Planet? 0.32	Orbital period around the Planet? 0.63	Orbital period around the Planet?  0.33
One Unique fact   1.8 meters per century	One Unique fact The grooves and small ridges on Pandora suggest that fractures affect the overlying smooth material.	One Unique fact Despina is the third of Neptune's known satellites

Small Bodies Research Links:

• Pluto, Not a Planet
• Comets
• Halley's Comet

III. Small Bodies:

Outside the Solar System Research Links:

• Different Galaxies
• Colors of Stars
• Death of a Giant Star

IV. Outside the Solar System:

Different Galaxy than Earth's	Giant Star (make up a name for this star. This is a fictional star. I just want you to get real info of a Giant star) MONSTER IS ITS NAME
Picture	Picture (You can use any picture for a Giant star.  I have had students get a picture of Britney Spears)
What are the different types of galaxies? elliptical galaxies and irregular galaxies	What are the last two stages of the Giant star’s life cycle before it dies? Describe what happens in each stage THE CORE COLLAPSES IN A INSTANT. THE REPULSIVE ELECTRICAL FORCES BETWEEN PARTICLES IN THE CORE OVERCOME THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCES,CAUSING A MASSIVE, SHORT-LIVED EXPLOSION WHICH BLOWS AWAY THE STAR`S OUTER LAYER LAST STAGE IT CONTRACTS TREMENDOUSLY AND BECOME A BLACK HOLE; IT IS INCREDIBLY DENSE, WITH A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD SO STRONG THAT EVEN LIGHT CANNOT ESCAPE
What is the unit of measurement we would use to measure the distances between our galaxy to this galaxy? LIGHT YEARS	What color are the hottest stars? What color are the medium temperature stars? And what color are the cooler stars? HOT STAR=BLUE COOL STAR=RED MEDIUM= WHITE YELLOW

Both Partner 1 and 2:

Use the information gathered from the above sections to complete the table below.  List the planets in order according to each column's labels.

When finished with the Google Research Notes you will need to link it this to your wiki side bar.

Part 2: Making of the Comic:

Requirements: Your Comic MUST include all of these items.

• Partner 1 will make the comic using information that Partner 2 collected.  And Partner 2 will make the comic using the information that Partner 1 collected.  (It is essential that both partners look over each others work for accuracy)

• Insert a picture of the space object.

• Include ALL the information from your Google Research Notes

• Bring the space objects to life. Use the quote bubbles to ask questions and to get answers

• Come up with a theme or a plot/storyline for your comic.  This maybe difficult but use your creativity. Make it entertaining. Your grade depends on it.

• Use characters or spaceships in your comic

When finished with the comic you will need to:

1. Export each page of the comic book as an image

2. Export the comic book as a Quicktime Movie (slideshow)

How to export each page of the comic book as an image

1. Click on "File"

2. Hover over "Export"

3. Click on "Export to Image(s)"

4. Find, where it says, Format: TIFF.

5. Click on the arrows next to TIFF and select “JPEG”

6. Save the file as “your_name_partners name_astronomy_comic_pics"

7. Make sure that you are exporting the file into your Astronomy Folder.

8. Click “Export”

9. You have just created a folder with each page from you comic as a picture. So if you had 20 pages in comic book, then you have 20 images

10. You will now need to Insert each image into the correct page in your Astronomy wiki.  See Mr. Ozeni's Astronomy Project Wiki Side Bar for more info.

How to export the comic book as a Quicktime Movie (slideshow)

1. Click on "File"

2. Hover over "Export"

3. Click on "Export to Quicktime"

4. Name your movie, "“your_name_partners name_astronomy_movie"
5. Increase the JPEG quality to High
6. Now, look where it says, "Per Page Delay"
7. Change "10 seconds" to "4 seconds"

8. Make sure that you are exporting the file into your Astronomy Folder.

9. Click "Export"
10. You will now need to embed this Quicktime Movie (slideshow) into your Astronomy Wiki

Extra Credit

1. 10 Extra Credit Points: 

• Insert music into your Quicktime Movie via iMovie.  

2. 50 Extra Credit Points: will be given if the students.....

1. Make a 3D interactive (moving) model of the Entire Solar System (use any items to create this) or
2. Create a 3D animated image of the solar system using some kind of computer drawing application. 

To get full credit you must: