1. Understand the movement of planetary bodies.
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.
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.

3. There will be Bell Work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday You are responsible for it, even if you do not have this class on a particular day This will be the last grade of the 9 weeks
This bar timer, will start when anywhere on the slide is clicked. The bar will move from left to right and the word ‘End’ will appear at the end, accompanied by a ‘Deep Gong’ sound. It is possible to change the duration of this timer to any time, by entering the animation settings, and changing the timing for ‘rectangle 3’. Note the time has to be entered as a number of seconds – so if you want 2mins & 30secs – this is entered as 150 (60X = 150).

4. If you were gone yesterday
You need to come in before or after school to make up the activity – not tomorrow

5. DISTANCE
astronomical unit (AU): a unit of length equal to about 149,600,000 kilometers, 93million miles, or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance.
*complete the activity with your group to make a scale model of the solar system for distance.

6. Please, Please, Please!
String
Please unwind, don’t just pull it off the cardboard
No Tight Knots
Please get beads back into the cups
Please carefully rewind the string on cardboard
If I have to replace your string because of a knot, it’s -10%

7. Solar system beads Planet Beads (11 colors) Five meters of string
Materials
Procedure
Planet Beads (11 colors)
cup
Five meters of string
Small piece of cardboard
Meter Stick
Student Calculation Table
Brain
Convert the various AU distances to cm and complete the chart
Choose which colors will stand for which planets
Carefully unwind string
Using calculated distances, tie the bead onto the string (you need to figure out what the best way to do this is, but no tight knots!)
Do extension 1 and 3
When finished, take a picture
Remove beads and carefully rewind the string.
Answer questions on Google Classroom
YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK QUICKLY!!

8. Complete extensions on google classroom
Extension 1: You can add "dwarf planet" Pluto’s nearest and most distant points to illustrate that Pluto’s orbit is much different than the eight major planets. Place marks on your string for Pluto’s closest and farthest point.
Pluto (closest) : 29.7AU
Pluto (average): 39.5AU *already marked with bead
Pluto (most distant) : 49.3AU
What did you notice?
Extension 2: Consider that if you were traveling at the speed of light, it would take 8 minutes and 19 seconds (8.3minutes) to travel from the sun to the Earth (1 AU). calculate the light-time from the sun to each planet. Extension 3: The Voyager spacecraft are the most distant human-made objects. Launched in 1977, the mission flew by all four of the Jovian planets -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune (only Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and Neptune) -- and kept on going. As of this morning Voyager 1 was AU from the sun. How many centimeters away from the sun would voyager be on your model? Use your meter stick to measure the distance (obviously, you don’t have enough string, but if you did, measure how far it would be.)

9. Solar system beads Materials Procedure
Convert the various AU distances to cm and complete the chart
Choose which colors will stand for which planets
Carefully unwind string
Using calculated distances, tie the bead onto the string (you need to figure out how the best way to do this is, but no tight knots!)
Do extension 1 and 3
When finished, take a picture
Remove beads and carefully rewind the string.
Answer questions on Google Classroom
Fill in the “Distance row in your chart”
Planet Beads (11 colors)
cup
Five meters of string
Small piece of cardboard
Meter Stick
Student Calculation Table
Brain
YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK QUICKLY!!