1. Tyler Shaffer

2. Essential questions:  Essential question: What is the Solar System, what does it contain and how did it come to be?  Unit Question: What is the stuff that makes up planets? What materials is the Earth and the other planets in our Solar System made out of?

3. SPACE! (and our planets) Topics covered in class would include: Earth, learning about our own planet first! The other planets we share our Solar System with. NASA, cool stuff and real life space experiments! Learning about matter, force, energy

4. Our Solar System/Milky Way

5. TEKS 6 th Grade (4) The strands for Grade 6 include: (A) Scientific investigations and reasoning. (i) To develop a rich knowledge of science and the natural world, students must become familiar with different modes of scientific inquiry, rules of evidence, ways of formulating questions, ways of proposing explanations, and the diverse ways scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on evidence derived from their work. (10) Earth and space. The student understands the structure of Earth, the rock cycle, and plate tectonics. The student is expected to: (11) Earth and space. The student understands the organization of our solar system and the relationships among the various bodies that comprise it. The student is expected to: Taken from : http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/ch112b.html http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/ch112b.html

6. Example Vocab Solar System Eclipse Planet Moon Dwarf Planet Asteroid Comet Solar Flare Gravitational Pull Orbit

7. By the end of the unit the student will be expected to:  Be able to list the planets in our Solar System  Know what Galaxy that our Solar System resides in  Be able to identify and explain what Comets, Asteroids and Stars are.  Know why the planets move in the way they do  Know the order of planets  Identify the planets of our Solar System by picture  Know why Pluto is no longer a planet.

8. Resources:  http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapt er112/ch112b.html http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapt er112/ch112b.html  http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s cience/space/solar-system http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s cience/space/solar-system  http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s cience/space/solar-system http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s cience/space/solar-system