1. Study Hall: working. Assigned Seats.

2. See if you can determine what the following magnified photos are. Number your paper to 5.

3. The Answers:

4. Interactive Notebook Q3  Label Next Available Page:  6.E.1.2 The Planet Earth and the Solar System  Number page to match Table of Contents entry  Circle the number

5. Interactive Notebook Q3  Add entry to Table of Contents  6.E.1.2 The Planet Earth and the Solar System  Assign the next number

6. OUR MISSION THIS WEEK…  You will become an expert at the solar system and be able to explain how the Earth can sustain life while other planets can not

7. Solar System Worksheet  Tape this into your notebook now!  Add entry to table of contents  Call it “Solar System Worksheet”

8. Solar System Song  Mr. Parr Solar System http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH61v4_e VNA

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

10. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  The Solar System consists of:  The Sun and 8 Planets  Multiple moons  Asteroids, Meteors and Comets  Dust, gases and empty space.

11. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  Mnemonic for the 8 Planets:  My Very Enthusiastic Mom Just Sent Us Nachos Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

12. DISCOVERY ED VIDEO  The Inner and Outer Planets

13. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  4 Terrestrial Planets: inner planets  Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars  4 Gas Giants: outer planets  Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

14. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  Moons: orbit alongside planets  Many planets have moons.  Earth has 1 moon, Jupiter has 63 moons!

15. Moons of Jupiter

16. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  RINGS:  cosmic, space dust and other small particles orbiting around a planet.  The four gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) all have rings.  SATURN = Planet most known for its rings

17. JUPITER & ITS RINGS

18. SATURN AND ITS RINGS

19. DISCOVERY ED VIDEO  Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites

20. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  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 the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)

21. ASTEROIDS

22. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK 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

23. HALEYS COMET

24. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  Meteoroid:  Large pieces from an asteroid or comet  Most burn up and never reach Earth

25. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  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

26. WRITE IN NOTEBOOK  Meteorite:  A meteoroid that does not burn up as it travels through the Earth’s atmosphere  It lands and crashes onto the Earth.

27. METEORITE ON EARTH  http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=dpmXyJrs7iU http://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=dpmXyJrs7iU  VIDEO IN RUSSIA

28. “I am” Activity Directions: 1.Each statement gives you a hint for which one it is. 2.The words can be used more than once. 3.Use your notes to help you fill in the blanks

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 Bill Nye and the distance between the planets  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 97Ob0xR0Ut8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 97Ob0xR0Ut8

31. DISCOVERY ED VIDEO  EARTH SCIENCE: SOLAR SYSTEM  Intro of Solar System  Planets of Solar System