Unit #2: The Solar System!
What’s out there?
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9/29/2014
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Monday
Warm Up:
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How was your weekend?
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Go over Test
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Make your weekly Warm Up chart (pg 66)
Activity:
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Solar System Pre-Test  You will NOT be graded on this. Don’t worry! It’s just to see how much you already know 
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Let’s Talk: What is the Universe? What is in it?
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Vocabulary Foldable! (pg 67)
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Universe
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Solar System
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Star
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Galaxy
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Sun
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Planet
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Universe clip
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Big Bang Theory Intro and Sing-A-Long
VOCABULARY QUIZ ON FRIDAY! 
Universe
All things that exist in space!
Planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies!
Galaxy
A VERY LARGE group of stars and
planets
We live in the Milky Way Galaxy!
Solar System
The sun and the bodies that move in
orbit around it
Star
A ball of burning gas in space that
gives off light
Sun
Any star that is the CENTER of a
system of planets
OUR Sun is at the CENTER of our solar system 
Planet
A large body that does not give off light
3 things make a planet
1. A planet must orbit a sun
2. It must have enough MASS for it’s own
gravity to shape it into a sphere
3. Must be massive enough to form it’s own
orbit
Solar System Vocabulary Video
 http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/sc
ience/solar-system/universe.htm
The Big Bang Theory Sing-A-Long
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhTSfOZUNLo
9/30/2014
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Tuesday
Warm Up:
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Turn to a partner and review your Foldable Vocabulary
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I will be coming around to check your Foldables for participation points (6
points)
Activity:
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Big Bang Sing-A-Long
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Foldable Vocabulary
 The Big Bang - clip
 Comets
 Moons
 Asteroids – clip
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Book reading and questions pg 690 – 694. Self Check questions #1-5. DUE
TOMORROW.
The Big Bang
The EVENT from which the Universe began
expanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NilPobb_r1k
Comets
Flying chunk of rock and ice with a tail
Moons
Also called a satellite. A chunk of rock
rotating around a planet.
Asteroids
Chunks of rocks that come from the outer regions of
space into the Earth’s atmosphere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agdvt9M3NJA
Get a book from the front left corner of
the classroom!
 Read pg. 690 – 694
 Answer questions 1-5 for the Section 1 Review
under ‘Self Check’
 Due tomorrow!
 Posted on Weebly if you don’t finish in class! 
10/1/2014
Wednesday
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Warm Up:
 Log into your Chromebook
 Username: student@lotusschool.org
 Password: Student2014
 Make sure the ‘S’ in student is Upper Case!
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Activity:
 Solar System Internet Investigation Flashcards!
 Go to my website and click the link!
 www.mshallearthscience.weebly.com
 http://www.history.com/interactives/interactive-universe
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Homework:
 Finish Solar System Internet Investigation
10/2/2014
Thursday
 Warm Up:
 Go over ALL vocabulary with a partner
 Have your Solar System Investigation out for me to check!
 Finished
 Cut and pasted
 Pictures drawn
 Activity:
 Go over book questions from Tuesday!
 GO OUTSIDE!
 How big IS the Solar System?
T.G.I.F. 
10/3/2014
 Warm Up:
 Study for 5 minutes with a partner. Quiz each other!
 Activity:
 Vocabulary Quiz (15 minutes)
 Expanding Universe Balloon exercise
 The Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
 Guided Notes – Due Monday (we will finish video on
Monday)