TEACHER NAME: Buck
Standards Alignment
Describe how objects in
M the solar system are in
regular and predictable
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motions that explain such
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phenomena as days, years,
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seasons, eclipses, tides, and
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moon cycles.
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Compare the orbits and
composition of comets and
asteroids with that of Earth.
Name and describe tools
used to study the universe
(e.g., telescopes, probes,
satellites and spacecraft)
ROOM: 110
WEEK BEGINNING: February 25th
Materials/Resources
Activities
Relevance Connection
Formative Assessment
-lab book/pencil
-collect WRS #12
Students should be able
-Teacher observations
-textbook
-handout WRS #13,
to better understand the
during active
-Venn Diagram handout
due next Monday,
positions of the sun,
participation
March, 4th
moon, and Earth at
-Venn Diagram
HOMEWORK-WRS
-handout Venn
different cycles of the
#13-DUE NEXT
Diagram-students take month
MONDAY
information from
pg.247 and pgs. 87-96,
104-112 in the
textbook and fill out
-go over in class after
15 minutes
-lab book pgs.233-236,
have students stand
and follow lab
procedures for
demonstrating: new
moon, new moon at
noon, new moon at
sunrise, new moon at
midnight, full moon at
noon, full moon at
sunset
-lab book/pencil
-lab book pg.250,
Students need to
Answers to homework
Halley’s Comet
understand how far space questions
-pgs. 256-262, play, “I exploration has come
Shot and Arrow”,
since the 1950’s and the
assign parts to read
impact technology has
aloud in class
had on the space
-assign homework for
program.
tonight
HOMEWORKANSWER
QUESTIONS ON
QUEQUESTIONS
PGS. 251-252-DUE
THURSDAY
-computers/library
-check homework
Students should be able to Grades on
-lab book
-finish Explorelearning explain the cyclical
Explorelearning and
-Explorelearning
handout on phases of
phases of the moon when moon/tide activity
handout
the moon
they look up in the sky at
-work on pgs. 267,
night.
269, 271 on my web
page: click on
moon/tide activity
See Wednesday
-video (“I Shot an
Arrow”)
-review the events
from the play , “I Shot
an Arrow”
-show the video of ‘I
Shot an Arrow”
-discuss the video
Students should be able to
figure
Participation
Name and describe tools to
study the universe (e.g.,
telescopes, probes,
satellites, and spacecraft)
-video
-lab book/pencil
-discuss Dr. Werner
von Braun
-show video “He
Conquered Space”
-as students watch the
video, they are to
answer questions in
the lab book on pgs.
264-265
Students should
understand the global
impact to the space
program from the
international scientific
community.
Lab book grades
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WEEKLY LESSON PLANS