1. 5/7 & 5/8 - 8th Grade Agenda
Learning Objective: Learn about the outer planets
Collect HW: Reading & Notetaking p.249– 250
California Standards Practice Test
Video: When we left Earth
Textbook Reading: p
HW: Reading & Notetaking p.251– 253

2. Daily Reflection
Prompt: Write 3 facts about Jupiter

3. What do we know about Jupiter?
5th Planet from the Sun
Largest Planet (300X more massive than Earth)
Many moons (20 + moons)

4. Jupiter’s Storm System

5. Jupiter’s Structure

6. What is the Great Red Spot of Jupiter?
Its like a giant hurricane
This hurricane is bigger than the Earth
Galileo first observed it in 1600s
Its been around for at least 400 years

7. Size of the Earth compared to Jupiter

8. What do we know about Jupiter’s four largest moons?
4 largest moons bigger than our moon
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
Io has volcanoes
Europa covered in ice and may have oceans underneath

9. Io’s Volcano

10. Io and Europa

11. Close up of Europa

12. Possible Oceans under Europa

13. What do we know about Saturn?
6th Planet from the Sun
2nd largest planet in the solar system
Has rings made of chunks of ice
Many moons (40+ moons)

14. More pictures on Saturn & Titan

15. What do we know about Saturn’s moon Titan
Larger than Mercury
Thick atmosphere
Liquid Methane Oceans

16. Hydrocarbon Lakes and clouds on Titan

17. More Pictures of Titan