Extra Credit Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to attend ANY astronomy related activity in your community.  This can include:

• Any local Planetarium
  • Daniel M. Soref Planetarium
  • Manfred Olson Planetarium
  • Any other planetarium in your location
     
• Attend a meeting of any local astronomy club
  • Milwaukee Astronomical Society
  • Wehr Astronomical Society
  • CoffeeShop Astrophysics ( a series of informal lectures in the area)
  • Any other astronomy club in your location

  Obtain proof of attendance (and scan), take notes which include topic of presentation, names of presenters, what you learned and found interesting.  Email all to me with the subject Astronomy Activity Extra Credit.

  OR
   Watch any (hour long)  NOVA episode related to astronomy (besides the required Origins video series)  All are available for viewing (streaming video at https://www.pbs.org/show/nova/ with a small donation by becoming a member) or look for one posted on YouTube for free.
  

•   Here are some suggestions:
  • Invisible Universe Revealed (great for unit 5)
  • Alien Planets Revealed (very interesting)
  • Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday?
  • Pluto and Beyond
• Secrets of the Sun (very interesting)
• Finding Life Beyond Earth
• Hunting the Edge of Space (2 episodes)
• Is There Life on Mars?
• Monster of the Milky Way
• Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

  Watch the video and take notes in your own words.  Indicate things you already knew and things that were new to you.  Give a critique of the video in terms of level of difficulty, your personal interest in the topic, whether the video was worth your time, etc.  Scan or type up your notes and email them to me with the subject Astronomy NOVA Extra Credit. 

OR
 

• Watch any single episode of the new Cosmos: a Spacetime Odyssey series by Neil deGrasse Tyson.  You can stream it from Netflix (perhaps).  You can search here for ways to view or just Google "Cosmos: a Spacetime Odyssey" and you will find multiple sites which shows episodes for about $2 each.  One web site to watch it free is also here.

  Watch the video and take notes in your own words.  Indicate things you already knew and things that were new to you.  Give a critique of the video in terms of level of difficulty, your personal interest in the topic, whether the video was worth your time, etc.  Scan or type up your notes and email them to me with the subject Astronomy Cosmos Extra Credit.