1. science
February 22nd and 23rd

2. Warm up
Go to your seat
Start reading the handout on asteroids, meteors and comets
Write 3 facts you learned about each
This will be checked today for a grade!
Anyone out our their seat will receive silent lunch!

3. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK NOTES: Astronomical Unit (AU)=
The Earth’s average distance from the sun
Approximately 93 million miles away

4. The back will be a quiz that you will take on your own.
Brain Pop
We will take notes. I will pass out the sheet and complete the front together as a group
The back will be a quiz that you will take on your own.

5. https://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=kAJHVII3_-0
VIDEO on solar system
tch?v=kAJHVII3_-0
Front we will do together.
Pay attention this will help you with the questions on the back

6. Solar System Worksheet
Add entry to table of contents
Call it “Brain Pop Solar System Worksheet”
Finish for homework !

7. From your solar system handout… I will pass these out now
4 Terrestrial Planets: inner planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
4 Gas Giants: outer planets
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

8. Let’s take out our Solar System Worksheet
What things surprised you during your research on the 8 planets?
Let’s look at each category on the sheet and quickly talk about what they mean.
1-What planet is the largest? (diameter)
2-What planet has the most moons? (# moons)
3-What planet is closest to the Sun? (location)
4-Which planet has the largest mountain? (key fact)
5Which planet has clouds of ammonia? (key fact)

9. More questions
6 Which is the windiest planet with winds up to 1,200 mph (key facts)
7-Which of the terrestrial planets is the largest? (diameter)
8-Which of the gas giants is the smallest? (diameter)
9-Which planet has the longest days? (length of a day)
10 Which planet is cold on one side and hot on the other? (key fact)
11 Which planet can sustain life?

10. Remember our definition of the Solar System?
The Sun and 8 Planets
Multiple moons
Asteroids, Meteors and Comets
Dust, gases and empty space.
Today we look at asteroids, meteors, and comets.

11. What is an asteroid? What is a comet? What is a Meteorite?
From the reading…
What is an asteroid?
What is a comet?
What is a Meteorite?
Let’s look and see

12. When I call your name make sure you are ready to read.
Let’s read the article
We are reading instead of taking notes on this. Be respectful and quiet 
When I call your name make sure you are ready to read.
Hold onto this article and staple or glue into notebook at end of class. This will replace what notes we would have taken.

13. ASTEROIDS

14. Think about this
Asteroids: chunks of rock left over from when the planets formed
Largest of the solar system bodies
Most common in the ASTEROID BELT (located between Mars and Jupiter)

15. Brain Pop Asteroids
steroids/

16. Think about this (this was going to be notes!)
Comets: asteroid-like objects covered in dust, ice, gases, and metals that develop a fuzzy, cloud-like shell called a coma
when they orbit close to the sun, the ice instantly melts, creating a long, visible tail (sometimes called a dirty snowball)
Form far away from the Sun

17. HALEYS COMET

18. Brain Pop Comets
omets/

19. Large pieces from an asteroid or comet
Think about this
Meteoroid:
Large pieces from an asteroid
or comet
Most burn up and never reach Earth

20. Think about this (This was going to be notes)
Meteor:
A meteoroid that burns up as it passes through our atmosphere.
Creates a flash of light, known as ‘shooting stars’
Smallest of the solar system bodies

21. Think about this (This was going to be notes)
Meteorite:
A meteoroid that does not burn up
as it travels through the Earth’s atmosphere
It lands and crashes onto the Earth.

22. http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU VIDEO IN RUSSIA
METEORITE ON EARTH
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VIDEO IN RUSSIA

23. “I am” homework Activity
Directions:
Each statement gives you a hint for which one it is.
The words can be used more than once.
Use your notes to help you fill in the blanks

24. Rest of class…
You will work on the following activities for the remainder of class….
Brain Pop worksheet (both sides)
“I am” activity
I will pass the 2 staplers around so make sure you staple your solar system handout into your notebook

25. You will create a poster today
Be sure to pay close attention

26. You will be assigned either 1-Comet 2-Asteroid 3-Meteor 4-Meteorite
Poster Time
You will be assigned either
1-Comet
2-Asteroid
3-Meteor
4-Meteorite

27. You must include:
At least 4 facts in your poster and a drawing of your

28. Mr. Parr Solar System Solar System Song

29. Review Solar System Worksheet
Follow along as I project the information onto the whiteboard

30. Bill Nye the Science Guy—5 minutes
Bill Nye and the distance between the planets
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31. EARTH SCIENCE: SOLAR SYSTEM
DISCOVERY ED VIDEO
EARTH SCIENCE: SOLAR SYSTEM
Intro of Solar System
Planets of Solar System