Transcript Where is that in my Space - NWACC

Susana Angulo, Christy Brown,
Teresa Morales, Robin Reichenbach
Physical Science 2004
Spring 2009
Dianne Phillips
The lesson plan will include the following requirements in order
to meet Arkansas’s framework of education guidelines:
• It will demonstrate how the planets orbit the sun.
• It will demonstrate how the Earth and it’s moon orbit around
the Sun.
• It will also relate how the Earth’s rotation around the Sun
correlate with Earth’s days and nights.
Arkansas Frameworks:
ESS 10.3.1 ESS 10.3.2 ESS 10.3.3
NS 1.3.3
NS 1.3.7
• Our project will serve the community in several
ways:
• We will helping teachers to teach their students the
valuable information about space.
• We will getting the information about space out to
more people through our contacts.
• We will be advertising that 2009 is the
Year of Astronomy.
• To learn what planets are, and the names and
order of the planets. Planet attributes can also
be learned.
• Demonstrate how the planet orbits the sun
• Demonstrate the orbit of Earth and it’s moon
around the sun
• Relate Earth’s Rotation to the day/night
We will be using:
• The Internet
• MySpace
• Face book
• PowerPoint
• Word
• Video camera
We learned:
• Arkansas frameworks for 3rd grade science
• How to use MySpace and Face book
websites
• How to rely on others and work together
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Grade 3 Science
I’m a Planet
Brief Description
Some students will "become" a planet so the names and order can be reviewed.
The teacher may wish to show pictures of the planets and name a few of the
planets' attributes.
Learning Objective:
• To learn what planets are, and the names and order of the planets. Planet
attributes can also be learned.
• Demonstrate how the planet orbits the sun
• Demonstrate the orbit of Earth and it’s moon around the sun
• Relate Earth’s Rotation to the day/night.
Materials:
For each student:
• Drawing paper
• Crayons or markers
For the Lesson:
• Book with planet pictures
• Flashlight (if considered appropriate)
Procedure:
Prior to Lesson- in the Computer Lab: Review with students the different
characteristics of each of the planets (power point presentation).Using either
Paint or Word have students "draw" the nine planets using the shapes on the
tool panel. Students should try to adjust the sizes of each planet in relation
to the others (i.e. Pluto should be the smallest). The students should then go
back and add the special characteristics unique to each planet. For example,
Mars should be red and have two moons above it. Mercury should have
smaller circles on it to represent its craters. Each planet can then be labeled.
Other suggested activities:
Class Activity: The following distance scale can be used to construct a model
of the solar system along six meters of a classroom wall. Make a large circle
of white paper to represent the sun. (It's the Earth's atmosphere which
makes the sun look yellow.) For each planet, draw a dot and write the name
on a piece of paper. Tack or tape the papers to a wall at the distances
indicated on the scale. From the edge of the sun, the distances are:
Planet
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Distance
6 cm
10 cm
14 cm
22 cm
74 cm
136 cm
280 cm
428 cm
562 cm
We had to modify our lesson plan do to the class
having most of the children under grade level and
several who did not speak English very well. We gave
them the pre-quiz, then showed them the PowerPoint
and then let them chose to do a word seek puzzle or
to draw a picture of their favorite planet.
• http://www.myspace.com/knowyourplanets
• http://www.facebook.com/home.php
By:
Susana Angulo
Robin Reichenbach
Christy Brown
Teresa Morales
Know Your Planets
The Planets
Sun
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Big star
Made out of gases called hydrogen and helium
Very Hot
It holds the solar system together
Gives to the Earth:
– Heat
– Light
– Energy
• Spins around it axis
• Generates space weather
• All planets orbit around the sun
Mercury
• First planet
• Closest to the Sun
• Smallest planet
– Because Pluto was classified as a dwarf
• It has no atmosphere to retain heat
– But it has a thin exosphere made of atom
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Rotates three times during every two orbits
No moon
Spins slowly
Eight largest from all the planets
Inner planet
Venus
• Second planet
• Similar to planet Earth:
– Similarities of Venus and
Earth are:
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Distance from sun
• Venus spins very slowly
– 243 days to spin around it axis
– Spins Backward
• Very hot temperature
• Venus has no ocean
• Brightest planet in the
sky
• Atmosphere made of
carbon dioxide
• It has volcanoes that do
not erupt
• Inner planet
Earth
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Third planet away from sun
Our home planet
The only planet that has all the necessities for us to survive
Earth is made of:
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Only planet to have liquid water on our surface
Spins very quickly compared to other planets
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Land
Life (including humans)
24 hours to spin around it axis one time
It orbits the sun in 365 days
Big oceans
Atmosphere full of oxygen for us to breath
One moon
Volcanoes that are different from other planets because they erupt.
Inner planet
Mars
• Fourth planet
• Its called Red Planet
• Its surface has been changed:
– By volcanism,
– The impacts from other bodies
– The movements of its crust
– The atmospheric effects such as dust storms.
• Spins very quickly
– spins around on its axis in 24 hours and 36 minutes
• It has an atmosphere made of carbon dioxide
• It has two moons
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Inner planets
Jupiter
Fifth planet
Largest planet of our solar system
Mostly made of gas
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Ammonia and sulfur
Water vapor
It has a lot of storms
It has winds
It has rings
16 moons and maybe more
Outer planet
Saturn
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Yellow Color
Second largest one
It has rings
Made of hydrogen and helium
– Hydrogen and helium are liquids in Saturn
• Atmosphere has lots of sulfur
• 52 moons a
• Spins very quickly on it axis
– One day in Saturn is only 10 hours long
– One year is very long
• Outer planet
Uranus
• Seven planet
• It has 11 rings
– 10 outer rings are dark, thin, and narrow.
– 11th ring is inside the others and is broad and diffuse
• It takes 84 years to complete one orbit around the sun
• One day is 17 hours long
• Rotation axis is horizontal
– This unusual orientation may be the result of a collision with a planet-size
body early in Uranus's history
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Atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium.
No solid surface
A gas planet
27 moons
Outer planet
Neptune
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Blue Color
It has a Great Dark Spot
Atmosphere made of methane gas
It orbits the sun once every 165 years because it is so
far away.
One day is 17 hours long
Axis of Neptune's magnetic field is 'tipped over' by about
47 degrees, compared to the planets rotation axis
8 moons
Outer planet
Outer planets
Pluto
• Dwarf planet (is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity
to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the
neighborhood around its orbit.)
• Very small
• 248 years to orbit the sun
• It’s moon is Charon
– half the size of Pluto
– shares the same orbit
– Charon and Pluto are a double planet
• Due to its lower density, its mass is about one-sixth that
of the Moon
• It has a bright layer of frozen methane, nitrogen, and
carbon monoxide on its surface
• It has a temporary thin atmosphere
Planets orbiting the Sun
Planets orbiting the Sun
Earth and Moon orbiting the Sun
Earth and Moon orbiting the Sun
Earth rotation to day and night
Words Cited
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http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/psgk3ex.htm
http://www.redorbit.com/modules/reflib/article_images/6_15cc0586
5f89c4801c5ff2a85d74a93c.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/images/science/earthsunm
oon_p1_1.gif
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDjqLCVLeo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDpVCsMkrQ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NIveh7h6Dg
http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf42/Talk_images/outer_pla
nets_small_2.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/earth_su
n_moon.shtml