High School Astronomy Resources
by Starstuff Classroom
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The [Utah] Astronomy High School Supplemental SEEd Standards [are patterned off of NGSS and] explore the patterns, forces, relationships, and systems of matter and energy found in the Universe. Students develop models and investigate patterns observed on Earth and in the night sky of phenomena that affect life on Earth. Students ask questions and model objects in our solar system and design solutions to determine where and how humans could colonize off of our planet someday. Students build models and construct arguments for the life and death of stars predicting the final stage of stars based on their mass. Students develop models and explain the formation and characteristics of the Universe (Utah Education Network)
(motions of Earth-Moon-Sun and history of astronomy)
NGSS: MS-ESS1-1, MS-ESS1-3, HS-ESS1-6
SEEd: ASTR 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
(Interplanetary Exploration)
NGSS: aligns with planetary properties & classification and HS-ESS1-4, MS-ESS1-2, MS-PS2-4
SEEd: ASTR 1.5, 2.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
(stars, light and spectra)
NGSS: HS-ESS1-1, HS-ESS1-2, HS-ESS1-3
SEEd: ASTR 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2
(inhabiting the Moon, Mars, and beyond)
Integrates technological history, astrobiology, current events
SEEd: 1.5, 2.4
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