1. Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Objective:
YWBAT analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.
Drill: What conclusions can you draw about a planet’s properties just by knowing how far it is from the sun?
Homework
Play Outside

2. Answer
Planets farther from the sun tend to have lower surface temperatures: they are spaced further apart: their period of revolution is much longer than that of the inner planets: they are more likely to be larger, gaseous, with many moons.

3. Did you know…?
Galileo wrote ”The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and depending upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

4. Today’s Activities
Drill
Sizing Up the Planets
Conclusion

5. Closure Question
Using the Comparison Diameter from the Sizing up the Planets lab, determine how many times larger Jupiter is than Earth.

6. Conclusion Answer
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