Course Content

Science Content:

• Length, time, temperature
• Making a planet: From elements to dust to planetesimals to ocean worlds
• Units and conversions
• What is viscosity?
• Forces
• Mathematics public service announcement: What is error?
• Activity: Planetary differentiation and Stokes flow
• Planetary Evolution: Accretion, composition, and differentiation
• Activity: Comparative planetology using planetary maps
• Heat and mass transfer: Cooling, and crustal and atmospheric formation
• Mathematics public service announcement: Data analysis and statistics
• Predicting earthquakes and volcanoes – statistical analysis
• Radioactive elements and heating
• The history of life so far: Paleontology, climate, other planets, and the future
• Mathematics public service announcement: Dimensional analysis

Pedagogy Content:

• Planning for inquiry in the classroom
• Using labs, lectures, and visualizations
• Making sense of data
• Integrating math
• Creating a complete teaching activity