Astronomy Project Instructions Your Astronomy Project is to analyze a news article on a topic related to astronomy and write a short report on your findings. The first step is to choose a topic from the Approved Topics listed on Table 1 (next page). You will be writing a short report that summarizes the science behind your topic by using the Approved Resources listed in Table 2 (next page) for your research. Then you will analyze the article by answering some key questions. Follow the steps below to get started: 1. Choose your Project Topic from the Approved Topics listed in Table 1 2. Find a news article related to your Project Topic. This must be a news article from a reputable news website such as a newspaper, periodical, or local/national news affiliate and can be from any date within the past three years. This article should not be from a blog or from a purely scientific periodical such as Astronomy Magazine or NASA News, but a resource known for distributing news on more topics than just science. Some examples would be ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Fox or the Washington Post, New York Times, or Forbes. 3. Email your Instructor both your Project Topic and a link to the news article you will be analyzing for approval. Everyone must choose a different article. 4. Read your article. Identify and list any scientific terms within it, preferably ones that you are not familiar with. You should have at least 4 scientific terms that you will be defining within the report. 5. Start your report, following the Report Outline below. Report Outline Your report should include the following 4 sections: 1. Scientific Terms List- This part gets you familiar with the scientific terms you identified in the article. Using any of the Approved Resources in Table 2, define and describe the scientific terms you identified in your article. This should follow a bulleted list format with no fewer than 4 terms. 2. Project Research – This part of the report introduces and describes the Project Topic. Using any of the Approved Resources in Table 2, you will research and report about the fundamental concepts behind your Project Topic. This section should be no less than 2 pages double spaced and include at least one informative picture or illustration. You can list your references informally as links or page numbers and the source. 3. Analysis of Article- After you have completed your research and scientific terms list, you should read the article again. Then conduct an analysis on the article by answering the following 4 questions. The article link and the questions should be copied into your report. Your response to each of the following questions should be at least a 5-sentence paragraph to completely answer the question. Q1: What information did the article include that agreed with the research you did on the article? Was there any information in the article that conflicted with your research? Q2: Do you feel like any parts of the article were misleading, exaggerated, or understated? If so what parts and why? If not, based on your research, why do you feel like it was well presented? Q3: Were all the scientific terms you identified and researched used properly in the article? Discuss why or why not and give examples. Q4: Overall, based on your research, did the article accurately discuss your Project Topic? Why or why not? What information, was it missing, if any? What information might have made the article clearer or more accurate? 4. Project Conclusion - Write a conclusion on what you learned from doing this project. It should include what you learned about the Project Topic through your research, what you learned from the article itself, and what you learned from the analysis of the article. This should be no less than ½ a page double spaced. Table 1 Approved Topics Gamma Ray Bursts Quasars Dark Matter Solar Eclipses Dark Energy Solar Wind Solar Eclipses Solar Flares or Coronal Mass Ejections Exoplanets Sunspots and the Sunspot Cycle Gravity Waves Binary Star Systems Special Relativity (will be tough) Planetary Nebulae General Relativity (will be tough) Molecular Clouds The Big Bang Supermassive Blackholes Hubble’s Law Stellar mass blackholes Supernovae White Dwarfs Neutron Stars/Pulsars Galaxy Clusters Galactic Cannibalism Globular Clusters Open Clusters Gravitational Lensing Cepheid Variable Stars Meteor Showers Table 2 Approved Resources Your Textbook – The Cosmic Perspective 8e https://www.wikipedia.org/ https://www.britannica.com OpenStax Astronomy Textbook Teach Astronomy Online Textbook Grading 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Emailing Project Topic and Article by deadline (5 points). Deadline is Sept 30, 2019. Scientific Terms List (5 points) Project Research (15 Points) Analysis of Article (20 points, 5 points each question) Project Conclusion. (5 points) Astronomy Project Instructions Your Astronomy Project is to analyze a news article on a topic related to astronomy and write a short report on your findings. The first step is to choose a topic from the Approved Topics listed on Table 1 (next page). You will be writing a short report that summarizes the science behind your topic by using the Approved Resources listed in Table 2 (next page) for your research. Then you will analyze the article by answering some key questions. Follow the steps below to get started: 1. Choose your Project Topic from the Approved Topics listed in Table 1 2. Find a news article related to your Project Topic. This must be a news article from a reputable news website such as a newspaper, periodical, or local/national news affiliate and can be from any date within the past three years. This article should not be from a blog or from a purely scientific periodical such as Astronomy Magazine or NASA News, but a resource known for distributing news on more topics than just science. Some examples would be ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Fox or the Washington Post, New York Times, or Forbes. 3. Email your Instructor both your Project Topic and a link to the news article you will be analyzing for approval. Everyone must choose a different article. 4. Read your article. Identify and list any scientific terms within it, preferably ones that you are not familiar with. You should have at least 4 scientific terms that you will be defining within the report. 5. Start your report, following the Report Outline below. Report Outline Your report should include the following 4 sections: 1. Scientific Terms List- This part gets you familiar with the scientific terms you identified in the article. Using any of the Approved Resources in Table 2, define and describe the scientific terms you identified in your article. This should follow a bulleted list format with no fewer than 4 terms. 2. Project Research – This part of the report introduces and describes the Project Topic. Using any of the Approved Resources in Table 2, you will research and report about the fundamental concepts behind your Project Topic. This section should be no less than 2 pages double spaced and include at least one informative picture or illustration. You can list your references informally as links or page numbers and the source. 3. Analysis of Article- After you have completed your research and scientific terms list, you should read the article again. Then conduct an analysis on the article by answering the following 4 questions. The article link and the questions should be copied into your report. Your response to each of the following questions should be at least a 5-sentence paragraph to completely answer the question. Q1: What information did the article include that agreed with the research you did on the article? Was there any information in the article that conflicted with your research? Q2: Do you feel like any parts of the article were misleading, exaggerated, or understated? If so what parts and why? If not, based on your research, why do you feel like it was well presented? Q3: Were all the scientific terms you identified and researched used properly in the article? Discuss why or why not and give examples. Q4: Overall, based on your research, did the article accurately discuss your Project Topic? Why or why not? What information, was it missing, if any? What information might have made the article clearer or more accurate? 4. Project Conclusion - Write a conclusion on what you learned from doing this project. It should include what you learned about the Project Topic through your research, what you learned from the article itself, and what you learned from the analysis of the article. This should be no less than ½ a page double spaced. Table 1 Approved Topics Gamma Ray Bursts Quasars Dark Matter Solar Eclipses Dark Energy Solar Wind Solar Eclipses Solar Flares or Coronal Mass Ejections Exoplanets Sunspots and the Sunspot Cycle Gravity Waves Binary Star Systems Special Relativity (will be tough) Planetary Nebulae General Relativity (will be tough) Molecular Clouds The Big Bang Supermassive Blackholes Hubble’s Law Stellar mass blackholes Supernovae White Dwarfs Neutron Stars/Pulsars Galaxy Clusters Galactic Cannibalism Globular Clusters Open Clusters Gravitational Lensing Cepheid Variable Stars Meteor Showers Table 2 Approved Resources Your Textbook – The Cosmic Perspective 8e https://www.wikipedia.org/ https://www.britannica.com OpenStax Astronomy Textbook Teach Astronomy Online Textbook Grading 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Emailing Project Topic and Article by deadline (5 points). Deadline is Sept 30, 2019. Scientific Terms List (5 points) Project Research (15 Points) Analysis of Article (20 points, 5 points each question) Project Conclusion. (5 points)
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