2.4 Solar System Formation & Organization

Essential Questions:

1) How do the predictable patterns of the earth in space affect life on earth?

2) Why is our solar system organized the way it is?

****ADD A FOLDER TO YOUR PORTFOLIO TITLED "2.4 SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION AND ORGANIZATION." AND SAVE ALL WORK IN YOUR FOLDER****

Daily Check-in

Be sure to complete the check-in form EVERY day. Be honest with you responses.

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Goal Standard: Students will understand that the solar system is comprised of various objects that orbit the Sun and are classified based on their characteristics

Target Questions to dig deeper into our Essential question

What can a scale model help us infer about our solar systems' size and organization?
What are the major similarities and differences between gas and terrestrial planets and their organization in our solar system?
How was our solar system formed?

Learning Experience:

Notes: Process of Forming a Solar System (Must-Do)
Mini-Lesson: Solar System Organization (Must-do)
Exploration: Geocentric vs. Heliocentric (Must-Do)
See You Around the Solar System Reading (Must-Do)
Solar System Scope (Should-do)
Scale Model Lab: Pocket Solar System (Should-Do)
Solar System Formation Comic (Should-Do)
Thought Question: Which planet would you infer to be the most suited for life outside of earth in our solar system? (Should-Do)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System Awards (Aspire to-do)

Evidence:

Create a solar system scale model and analyze it to demonstrate your understanding of how and why our solar system is organized the way it is.

COVER PAGE: Make a copy to keep track of your progress.

2.4 Solar System Formation and Organization COVER PAGE

Notes: Process of Forming a Solar system (must-do)

Fill in the note catcher provided to better understand the stages in which scientists believe the solar system and the objects within it were formed.

Evolution of the Solar System

Formation of the Solar System NOTE SKELETON.docx

Note Catcher

Mini Lesson: Solar System Organization (must-do)

Watch the mini-lesson from either Schmidt or Fryska. Take a picture of your notes and save it to your Solar System Formation and Organization folder.

REMINDER: Note templates can be found on the ADDITIONAL RESOURCES page.

Schmidt Mini Lesson

2.4 Mini Lesson Solar System.webm

Fryska Mini Lesson

Solar System Formation Comic (Should-do)

Comic Examples:

What do you notice about how the author set up the comics?

How do they use dialogue and pictures to keep the story going?

How does the comic help you understand what is happening without just telling the reader?

Comic Examples

Directions

Optional Comic Graphic Organizer

MOD comic

Exploration: GeoCentric Vs. HelioCentric (must-do)

Use the following resources and any others you can find to complete the assignment posted below. The purpose of this is to explore the multiple ways people have tried to explain how our solar system is organized. Consider how they are using reasoning to explain the evidence to support their claim.

Reading

Reading- Difference Between Geocentric and Heliocentric

Graphic Organizer (optional to use)

Geocentric vs Heliocentric Compare and Contrast

Assignment

Geo/Helio Advertisement

See You Around the Solar System Reading (must-do)

Step 1: Read the article. Be sure to monitor for meaning as you read.

Step 2: Use KAMI to fill in the graphic organizer about our solar system. Use complete sentences when writing your summary of the article. Save a completed copy of your work to your Solar System Organization folder.

See You Around the Solar System (960L).pdf

Article

See you around the Solar System- WS p2-rotated.pdf

Graphic Organizer

Solar System Scope (Should-do)

Explore our solar system using the interactive online model. Record your learning in the note-catcher. Be sure to save a copy of your completed work to your Solar System Organization folder.

Note: Atmospheric Observations means describe what the gases surrounding the planet are like. General observations means describe unique characteristics of the planet that set it apart from all the others.

Solar System Scope Worksheet

Note-Catcher

Interactive Online Model

Scale Model Lab: Pocket Solar System (Should-do)

Student Version PocketSolarSystem.pdf

This activity will help you get a better idea of how big our solar system actually is!

Assignment: Create the scale model (the directions call for register tape, feel free to use and tape together any type pf paper you have available), take a picture of it, then answer the three question at the bottom of the lab sheet, and upload it to your folder.

After, use Flipgrid to discuss the following questions:

1. Why is it important to be able to make a scale model of something AND to make sure it has accurate measurements?
2. What is one thing this scale model helped you to understand better? Explain your thoughts.
3. What is one question you still have that you want to know more about?

*** Watch some of your classmates videos and try and respond to some of their questions!

Schmidt: Core 1

Schmidt: Core 3

Fryska: Core 1

Fryska: Core 3

Thought Question: Which planet would you infer to be the most suited for life outside of earth in our solar system or galaxy? (should-do)

Mystery solved: Bright areas on Ceres come from salty water belowData from NASA's recent Dawn mission answers two long-unresolved questions: Is there liquid inside Ceres, and how long ago was the dwarf planet geologically active?

While human populations continue to rise, resources become more scarce, and climate change threatens many of Earth's ecosystems, it make sense that scientists are looking outside of Earth for habitable planets. Because of this, new information, like the article about Ceres above explains, is being discovered about our solar system and universe every day.

Think about the question about and use your skills in questioning to generate guiding questions to help you gather evidence to support/develop your thinking around this thick question. Then use that evidence and your schema (background knowledge and experience) to develop inferences to help you answer this question.

Questioning to Inference Graphic Organizer

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System Awards (aspire-to-do)

Hitchhikers Guide to Solar System Awards

Instructions:

You have been asked to help nominate planets for awards to be given at the 20,000^th Annual Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System Awards night!

1. Using the information you have about the planets, decide which planet should win an award from the categories listed.

2. Write in your nomination for the winning planet and explain your REASONING.

3. You need to choose any 10 awards to give.

4. Bonus: Instead of just using the chart below, make actual award certificates using any medium you would like (google slides, hand-drawn on paper, etc.). Include colorful images and text to make the awards extra special.

Stop! Before you take the assessment...

Lesson 2.4- Self Check:

Do you understand-

Models used to explain the organization of the solar system
How the planets/ the solar system were formed
Why the solar system is organized the way it is
How to create and use a scale model to better understand the solar system

THAT'S THE END OF LESSON 2.4. ENSURE ALL WORK IS SAVED IN YOUR FOLDER, SUBMIT YOUR FOLDER ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM, SHOW MASTERY ON YOUR ASSESSMENT, AND THEN MOVE ON TO LESSON 2.5.

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