Grab a Data sheet from the table by the door Complex Knowledge: demonstrations of learning that go aboveand above and beyond what was explicitly taught. Knowledge: meeting the learning goals and expectations. Foundational knowledge: simpler procedures, isolated details, vocabulary. Limited knowledge: know very little details but working toward a higher level. Grab a Data sheet from the table by the door Understand how our view of the solar system has changed over time and how discoveries made have led to our changing our view of the solar system. Learn planetary characteristics such as number of moons, size, composition, type of atmosphere, gravity, temperature and surface features. Understand the movement of planetary bodies. Understand which planetary characteristics are more important than others when it relates to our understanding of other worlds. Understand how proximity to the sun influences planets. Understand the methods and tools scientists use to learn about other planets and moons in our solar system. Understand the conditions needed for a habitable world and determine if there are habitable worlds in our solar system or outside the solar system. Understand how we look for and study solar systems other than our own.

Question of the Day What objects make up the Solar System? [This is a question astronomers have studied for centuries.] How do scientists keep track of and organize everything in our solar system?

Helps you remember things: A Mneumonic Device Helps you remember things: I Picked My Apple’s Today Interphases, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase DOC “Captain Aquarro Picks Artillery Targets, General Canfield Leads Village Liberation,” Scotty Said. Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius Roy G. Biv Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet Kids Playing Cards On Freeway Get Smashed Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Create Your Own For the Planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Organizing the Solar System Please look at how your cards are organized RIGHT NOW! They should be this way when you leave!! I can’t make more (they are color copies) Please be careful

Organizing the Solar System We will explore and categorize objects in the Solar System, following their chronology of discovery. You may discover (just as scientists did) that you may need to revise catergories for objects as new objects are discovered. You will sort these cards into groups based ONLY on the images provided and logical reasoning. It is not sufficient to put something into a catergory for the simple reason that you “want it there” or “know where it belongs.” Try not to base it on color Don’t start out using shape either

Organizing the Solar System Use post-it notes to label/name each grouping and include the following information on the post-it: Name for your group Description/Criteria used to create your group The card numbers of the objects in your group Name of category Criteria to join group Card #’s in group

You could use more or less than 4 Name of category Criteria to join group Name of category Criteria to join group Name of category Criteria to join group Name of category Criteria to join group

Record in your notebook (left side)

What criteria did you use to organize? Is this the same criteria that astronomers use? Why or why not?

What is this stuff? 17. Saturn, planet 1. Ceres, dwarf planet 2. Charon, satellite of Pluto 3. Earth, planet 4. Eris, dwarf planet 5. Eros, asteroid 6. Europa, satellite of Jupiter 7. Halley, comet 8. Hyakutake, comet 9. Ida, asteroid 10. Jupiter, planet 11. Moon, satellite of Earth 12. Mars, planet 13. Mathilde, asteroid  14. Neptune, planet 15. Phobos, satellite of Mars 16. Pluto, dwarf planet 17. Saturn, planet 18. Sun, star  19. Tempel 1, comet 20. Titan, satellite of Saturn 21. Triton, satellite of Neptune 22. Venus, planet  23. Vesta, asteroid 24. Wild 2, comet 25. Io, satellite of Jupiter 26. Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter 27. Datctyl, Satellite of Ida the Asteroid 28. Deimos, Satellite of Mars 29. Quaoar, Dwarf Planet 30. Sedna, Dwarf Planet 31. Nix, Satellite of Pluto 32. Mercury, Planet

1. Ceres, dwarf planet

2. Charon, satellite of Pluto

3. Earth, planet

4. Eris, dwarf planet

5. Eros, asteroid

6. Europa, satellite of Jupiter

7. Halley, comet

8. Hyakutake, comet

9. Ida, asteroid

10. Jupiter, planet

11. Moon, satellite of Earth

12. Mars, planet

13. Mathilde, asteroid 

14. Neptune, planet

15. Phobos, satellite of Mars

16. Pluto, dwarf planet

17. Saturn, planet

18. Sun, star 

19. Tempel 1, comet

20. Titan, satellite of Saturn

21. Triton, satellite of Neptune

22. Venus, planet 

23. Vesta, asteroid

24. Wild 2, comet

25. Io, satellite of Jupiter

26. Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter

27. Datctyl, Satellite of Ida the Asteroid

28. Deimos, Satellite of Mars

29. Quaoar, Dwarf Planet

30. Sedna, Dwarf Planet

31. Nix, Satellite of Pluto

32. Mercury, Planet

Homework What more information would you have needed to come up with the same categories as astronomers? How did your previous knowledge and experiences (related to Solar System objects) interfere or help you as you completed this investigation? What is your definition of what a planet is? What should be the criteria? Size, shape, color, composition, distance, moons, orbits, etc. Or should it be based on something else entirely? Dwarf planet Planet Moon/satellite Asteroid Comet Star

Please put everything back in order Make sure the correct number cards get put in each bag Also, Please Put the blue card in the front of the correct baggies.