Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
• (a) I,Simrit Sohal, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 1/2 hours of work.
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

Talcott, Richard, “The Sky this Week: December 25, 2015 - January 10, 2016.” Astronomy.com. Astronomy Magazine, 24 Dec. 2015. Web. 5 Jan, 2016.

“January Constellations”. seasky.org. Sea and Sky, n.d. Web. 5 Jan, 2016.

“February Constellations”. seasky.org. Sea and Sky, n.d. Web. 5 Jan, 2016.

• (d) Basically what I did throughout this project was observe the stars. My brother would take me up to the mountains for a few hours with a telescope and we would try to find planets and constellations. I read up articles beforehand to know when we should go to the mountains and where to look. Of course, the telescope might be difficult at times and it was a bit hard to find the constellations we were looking for because of all the stars in the sky. At the end, I was supposed to create a scrapbook with all the photos but my brother accidentally deleted all the photos we had and I lost all the work we had. So basically, I just explained in the scrapbook what we looked at and I gave small descriptions of each thing. It was not my proudest work, but I needed to do something.   

INTERPRETIVE

• Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

Like I said before, my brother deleted all the evidence we had in his camera. We took a lot of photos and now it’s all gone. The only evidence I have is my brother because he would be the one to drive me up to the mountains to look at the stars. Honestly, I am not proud; I lost all my work and I had to whip up something really quickly.

the scrapbook: http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/interests/independent-component-1-13336062?vk=mK4wXkUjgU

• APPLIED
• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
• This helped me understand how astronomy all got started. Astronomy wouldn’t have become a part of physics if people were not curious of what was outside of Earth, Because of all the observations we had done, it showed why people want to observe. It showed me to we, as a species, are curious, which is why astronomy has lived on my many years, That is the foundation of astronomy, and that is what is holding it up.