Crash Course Astronomy Full Curriculum with Weekly Assessments

A full Crash Course Astronomy curriculum needs more than a folder of video worksheets. Daily episode materials help students follow each video, but teachers also need a clear pacing map, regular mastery checks, cumulative unit assessments, structured review days, and a final assessment that asks students to connect ideas across the course.

The Crash Course Astronomy Full Curriculum is organized as a 12-week Grades 9-12 supplemental sequence covering all 46 public episodes. It combines the complete daily video lesson resources with an educator planning guide, student syllabus, 12 weekly assessments, three unit assessments, two Day 4 review/application plans, and one final assessment.

What makes this different from the daily lesson bundle

The existing Crash Course Astronomy #2-#46 Complete Video Lesson Bundle provides the daily worksheets, teacher guides, quizzes, and Google Classroom files. The full curriculum adds the course-level planning and assessment layer teachers need to turn those lessons into a consistent 12-week sequence.

  • Weekly assessments after each group of three or four episodes.
  • Unit assessments after Weeks 4, 8, and 12.
  • A full-course final assessment.
  • An educator planning guide and student syllabus.
  • Structured Day 4 review/application plans for Weeks 11 and 12.

How the 12-week astronomy structure works

  • Weeks 1-4: observations, sky cycles, Moon phases, eclipses, telescopes, gravity, tides, the solar system, and planets.
  • Weeks 5-8: moons, rings, small bodies, light, distance, stars, exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and stellar evolution.
  • Weeks 9-12: black holes, stellar systems, nebulae, the Milky Way, galaxies, dark matter, expansion, cosmology, deep time, and life in the universe.

Assessment that goes beyond recall

The weekly, unit, and final assessments combine vocabulary, scenario-based A/B short-answer questions, graph or model interpretation, and multiple-choice reasoning. Students must connect observations to explanations: why Moon phases differ from eclipses, how spectra reveal properties, how mass changes a star’s life cycle, how galaxy motion supports dark matter, and how redshifts and supernova evidence support models of cosmic expansion.

Print and Google Classroom options

  • Editable teacher guides and planning documents.
  • Student Assessment Slides for digital assignment or projection.
  • Print-friendly assessment slides and MC Quiz Print Versions.
  • Self-graded Google Forms support.
  • Teacher answer keys with sample written responses.

Preview the curriculum before purchasing

Download the free 12-week map here: Free Crash Course Astronomy Full Curriculum Educator Planning Guide.

View the complete curriculum here: Crash Course Astronomy Full Curriculum.

Browse all current astronomy lesson products here: Crash Course Astronomy YouTube Video Lessons.

Crash Course videos are not included. This independent educator-created curriculum is not affiliated with or endorsed by Crash Course, Complexly, YouTube, PBS, or any related rights holder.

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