5th Grade Transition Plan
Dec
6-17
Unit 7: The Sun/Earth/Moon System
5.8 The student knows that there are recognizable patterns in the natural world and among the
Earth, Sun, and Moon solar system.
5.8D Identify and compare the physical characteristics of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.
Identify, Compare
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUN, EARTH, AND MOON
Including, but not limited to:
• Sun and Earth
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atmosphere
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layers
• Earth and Moon
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craters
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mountains
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plains
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soil
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rocks
Key Understandings: The Earth and Moon have certain physical characteristics in common. The Sun
has unique physical characteristics.
6 MONDAY-Day 6 Engage
Questions to ask the students during the
“Photo ID” PPT
1. What do you think this is? Are we are
the Earth or the Moon?
2. Why?
3. What do you see?
4. How do you know it is The Earth/The
Moon?
5. How can you tell?
6. Do you see any water? Life forms?
Weathering? Erosion?
7. Do you see any landforms? If so, what
kind?
8. What is the atmosphere?
7 TUESDAY-Day 7
8 WEDNESDAY- Day 8
9 THURSDAY- Day 9
Have students list of 3 celestial objects that have an effect on
them and describe what the effect is.
(Earth-air & water, Moon- tides, and Sun-light and heat)
and
Photo ID Have students list of 3 celestial objects that have
an effect on them and describe what the effect is.
(Earth-air & water, Moon- tides, and Sun-light and heat)
And do PHOTO ID
Robert will be adding information and questions in the
NOTES section of the PPT
Let students decide if photo is Earth or Moon and why?
Big ideas:
1. No life, water, weathering, erosion, on moon.
2. No atmosphere on Moon (black sky)
3. Craters on Earth get eroded (covered up) due to process of erosion.
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5th Grade Transition Plan
Dec
6-17
10 FRIDAY- Day 10 Explore
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This lesson is not in the Transition Document
Makin’ Craters- class demo.
Pictures of craters on the Moon and
Earth
Safety glasses
Small rock or dense ball (metal)
One large tub or box per group
such as a dish pan, pizza box,
aluminum pan, or copy paper box
lid (larger pans allow children to drop more
marbles before having to resmooth or
resurface)
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Flour
Chocolate cake mix
Sieve/sifter, to sprinkle the dark
powder
Spray bottle
Straw
Data chart
Meter sticks
TAKS rulers
3 × 5 index card to smooth the
surface of the powder
Newspaper or drop cloths
Science Notebooks
Students will create weathering of ‘rock’ by impact cratering.
They will see that on the Moon there is nothing to erode the crater
whereas on the Earth there are agents of erosion (WWWI water,
wide, waves and ice) which remove evidence of the crater.
MAKIN' CRATERS
Impact craters are caused when an impactor collides with a planet.
Impact craters on Earth older than about 200,000 years are worn by
weathering, erosion, and plate tectonics. Models help us test different
variables and understand complex phenomena.
Impactors will be dropped and measured in both
containers. Once data is recorded, the Earth container will
be exposed to water (spray bottle), wind, waves, and ice
Moon
Earth
(tilt container and slide ice cube to create a scrape across
the surface of the crater.
13 MONDAY-Day 11 Explain
Graphic Organizer
Develop a matrix sheet titled Physical Characteristics. Across the top
label Sun, Earth, Moon (3 columns). Down the side label rows: Diameter,
Mass, Composition,
Atmosphere, Rotation, Revolution, Surface
Features, Weathering, Erosion, Water, Temperature Ranges, Gravity, and
Position in Solar System.
Phy. Comparison Matrix
Students are to research the characteristics and
record them on the matrix.
http://www.school-forchampions.com/astronomy/earth.htm
http://www.school-forchampions.com/astronomy/sun.htm
http://www.school-forchampions.com/astronomy/moon.htm
Dec
6-17
5th Grade Transition Plan
14 TUESDAY-Day 12 Elaborate
Differentiation-Layers of the Spheres
Students to diagram, with labels, the interior of the three bodies.
Students should note the similarities and differences of the three bodies.
15 WEDNESDAY- Day 13
Evaluate
Student to create artistic Venn Diagram
VENN RUBRIC
Create a comparative-contrastive map for the physical characteristics of the
Sun, Earth, and moon.
16 THURSDAY- Day 14 Evaluate
17 FRIDAY- Day 15
Student to present artistic Venn Diagram
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