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http://news.nationalgeographic/. A Journey Through Our Solar System. By Mary Dennis. Launching into learning – The Essential Question. AreWE the only planet in town?. The Milky Way Galaxy. Our planet is located in The Milky Way Galaxy Nine planets make up this galaxy
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http://news.nationalgeographic/ A Journey Through Our Solar System By Mary Dennis
Launching into learning – The Essential Question AreWE the only planet in town?
The Milky Way Galaxy • Our planet is located in The Milky Way Galaxy • Nine planets make up this galaxy • The earth is just one of those planets • The earth has one Moon, which we have explored http://ncip.nssc.nasa.gov/images/Home/Moon
Earth is considered the “Third Rock from the Sun” This is because we are the third planet from the sun, and our earth is rocky http://www.bnsc.gov.uk/assets/
Nine Planets In order from the sun, the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto Http://afpstudio.com/cms/images/stories/
The Inner Planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are: • Closer to the Sun • Warmer and rocky http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/
The Outer Planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto are: • Farther from the Sun • Colder and made of gas • Pluto is a dwarf planet and not shown http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/
You…An Astronaut? • Astronaut = “space sailor” in Latin • Years and years of schooling • Training: Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/mercury
Space Gear • Hubble space craft • Space probe • Telescope http://www.stevenorton.com/shop/media/Space.Travel
“Spacey” words • Constellation • Star • Axis • Rotate • Revolve http://www.nasa.gov/images/
Fun Facts • There’s a lot of “traffic” in space http://www.kozykidscompany.com/images/
Comprehension Name our Galaxy? How many planets? One fact about inner planets? One fact about outer planets? http://www.mybambino.com/media/th-392-W1-DIthesolarsystem.jpg
Works Cited • http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/photogalleries/wip-week50/images/primary/1_461.jpg • http://www.stevenorton.com/shop/media/Space.Travel.jpg • http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&safe=active&q=%22our%2Bsolar%2Bsystem%22&start=80&sa • http://afpstudio.com/cms/images/stories/smoothgallery/Solar_system.jpg • http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/download-01_OurSolarSystem_FC-520.jpg • http://ncip.nssc.nasa.gov/images/Home/Moon%20Salute.jpg • http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/63114main_highway_med.jpg • http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/photogalleries/wip-week50/images/primary/1_461.jpg • http://www.kozykidscompany.com/images/rocketshipsfllece.jpg • http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf42/Talk_images/outer_planets_small_2.jpg • http://flyingsamphoto.com/images/kids-in-space-1f.jpg • http://www.kevdiddy.com/photoart/kids_in_space.jpg • http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/mercury_astronauts.html • http://www.stevenorton.com/shop/media/Space.Travel.jpg • http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/download-01_OurSolarSystem_FC-520.jpg • http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/63114main_highway_med.jpg • http://www.mybambino.com/media/th-392-W1-DIthesolarsystem.jpg