The Solar System

1. The Solar System Developed by Dan Walsh

2. Menu Rationale Resources Objectives Vocabulary Materials Activities Lessons

3. Rationale • Students will learn about our Solar System and the planets in it through a variety of different ways that will address different subject areas

4. Objectives • Students will be able to identify and contrast all nine planets of the Solar System • Students will have a working knowledge of how the Solar System moves • Students will understand where our planet fits into the Solar System

5. Materials Listening/Speaking Reading Wellness/Fitness Writing Arts/Humanities Math Social Studies Science/Technology

6. Resources

7. Circumference Climate Diameter Gravitational Pull Milky Way Orbit Revolution Rotation Relative Size Solar System Time Capsule Wax Wane Vocabulary

8. Activities Menu Listening Speaking Science Technology Reading Social Studies Writing Arts and Humanities Math Wellness Fitness

9. Lessons Planetary Scavenger Hunt Space Time Capsule Clay Planets Bringing Solar System to Life Space Travel

10. Listening/Speaking • From reading activity one groups have all ready researched their assigned planet. They then will debate why their planet would be good to live on. • Standards – 1.1.5G, 1.6.5C, 1.6.5E • Students will experience what communication was like for early astronauts by following specific instructions given through one way communication. The instructions will involve where and how to place certain shapes. • Standards – 1.6.5A Activities Menu

11. Reading • Break into groups to research an assigned planet. This information will then be used in a class debate • Standards – 1.1.5A, 1.8.5A, 1.8.5.B • Students will be able to pick a fictional book that has to do with space or different planets. They will then compare and contrast information from their fictional book with what they already know about space. • Standards – 1.1.5A, Activities Menu

12. Writing • Students will write a story of what it would be like to live on another planet. • Standards – 1.5.5C, 1.5.5F • Students will write what they would put in a time capsule to send to intelligent life on a different planet. • Standards – 1.5.5A Activities Menu

13. Math • Students will construct a table that shows how many moons each planet has. They will then construct a graph. • Standards – 2.5.5C • Students will take information from wellness and fitness activity one and find out how high and far they could jump and throw if they were on different planets. • Standards – 2.2.5A, 2.2.5D, 2.6.5A Activities Menu

14. Science/Technology • Students will use a marble to represent the size of the Earth and find other spherical objects to represent the relative size of the other planets. • Standards – 3.1.7D • Students will use the computers to create a class data base of the astronauts they researched in social studies activity one. • Standards – 3.4.7D, 3.7.7D Activities Menu

15. Social Studies • Student will research famous astronaut and use information to later create a class database. • Standards – 8.3.6A, 8.4.6A • We will use recent newspapers and magazines to discuss what is going on with our space program now. • Standards - Activities Menu

16. Arts and Humanities • Students will construct a model of the solar system using clay • Standards – 9.1.5A, 3.4.7D • Students will draw or paint the phases of the moon for flashcards. • Standards – 9.1.5B Activities Menu

17. Wellness and Fitness • Students will find out how high and far they can jump and throw. This information will later be used to find out how far and high they could do these activities on a different planet. • Standards – 10.5.6B • Students will role model the solar system by physically rotating and revolving around the sun • Standards – 10.4.6A Activities Menu

18. Listening/SpeakingMaterials • Activity One • Information from previous research • Activity Two • One set of shapes for each group of students • One worksheet for every student

19. Reading Materials • Activity One • Encyclopedias, books, internet, or any other material suitable to do research • Activity Two • Access to school or other library containing fictional books on space

20. Arts and HumanitiesMaterials • Activity One • 50 grams of gray clay • 100 grams of yellow clay • 50 grams of green clay • 50 grams of blue clay • 50 grams of red clay • A balance for each group • Text books • Activity Two • Pencils, crayons, water colors, markers • Paper, poster board

21. Wellness/FitnessMaterials • Activity One • Tape Measure • Making Tape • Papers and pencils • Activity Two • Large yellow punch ball • Nine balloons of different colors and sizes • String or tape

22. Social StudiesMaterials • Activity One • Encyclopedias, books, internet, or any other material suitable to do research • Activity Two • Current periodicals, newspaper, or internet articles about space program

23. Science/TechnologyMaterials • Activity One • Rulers and tape measures • Enough spherical objects to complete hunt • Pencils, paper • Calculators • Activity Two • At least one computer for every two students • Computers with database program • Information from previous activity

24. Math Materials • Activity One • paper, pencils, crayons, rulers • Activity Two • Information from previous activity • Gravitational forces of other planets • Paper, pencils, crayons, rulers

25. Writing Materials • Activity One • Short writing prompt • writing materials • Activity Two • Writing prompt with categories of objects for time capsule • Writing materials