Solar System

Vocab: Solar System, Heliocentric, Geocentric, Parallax, Gravity, Orbit, Centripetal Force, Aphelion, Solar Nebula

Day 1: Create a Pocket Solar System to show distance of planets. Brief overview of the Planets in our Solar System

Day 2: Formation of the Solar System and Online Article or Article with Graphic Organizer and Writing.

Day 3: History of Solar System with foldable and PowerPoint.

Vocab: Terrestrial Planet, Gas Giant, Astonomical Unit, Perihelion, Planetesimal, Planetary RIng, Dwarf Planet, Kuiper Belt

Day 4: Explain The Inner Planets with notes, and PowerPoint

Day 5: Explore Planets with Stations

Day 6: Explain The Outer Planets with notes, and PowerPoint. Create model of solar system if time permits (located at the bottom with Extra Resources.

Day 7: Compare and Contrast the Inner and Outer Planets. 

Day 8: Explore how planets formed with text and NOVA video or 4K video below.

Day 9: Bill Nye Video: Planets and accountability sheet.

Vocab: Comet, Oort Cloud, Asteroid, Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite

Day 10:  Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids Stations

Day 9: Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids article and PowerPoint

Vocab: Nuclear Fusion, Solar Flare, Sunspot, Prominence

Day 10: The Sun's Layers reading and diagram

Day 11: The Layers of the Sun PPT with Online Article

Day 12: Sunspots, Solar Flares, and Solar Wind Video