Grade 7 Science
Space Lesson
Alone, or with a partner, choose a topic that interests you from the list provided below. You must
find a creative and interesting way to teach everything there is to know about your topic. Your
main mode of teaching is through some form of visual aid. Your lesson must be 5-10 minutes
long.

Create a lesson plan to teach about your topic. You must submit your script to me
immediately before your presentation. Your script must include everything you plan to
say along with how you plan to use your visual aid in your lesson.

Create a visual aid to help you teach about your topic – it could be a model that you
build, a multi-pane comic strip that you draw, a poster, a movie, a Powerpoint
presentation, or something else.

Generate a minimum of two test questions to ask the class to see if they understood what
you taught them.
Topics:
 The Law of Universal Gravitation p. 355
Solar system
 How the solar system was created p. 356
 The sun pp. 356-357
 The terrestrial planets of the solar system p. 358, p. 361
 The gaseous planets of the solar system p. 359, p. 361
 Pluto p. 360
 Solar system sizes and distances p. 361
Light pp. 349-354
 Incandescence, fluorescence, phosphorescence
 Reflection, refraction, diffraction of light
 Diffusion, dispersion, absorption (p. 352) of light
 Types of materials – opaque, translucent, transparent p. 350-351
 Shadows p. 350-351
 Coloured light p. 352-353
 Cycles of day and night pp. 363-364
 The moon and its phases pp. 372-373
 Solar and lunar eclipses pp. 374-375
 Seasons around the Earth pp. 364-366
 Comets pp. 361-362
 Aurora borealis and australis p. 367
 Meteoroids pp. 368-371
Grade 7 Science
Space Lesson
Scoring Rubric – Total 10 Points
This presentation will be graded using the following scoring rubric.
1. "Technical
Merit"
0-3
2. "Artistic
Expression"
0
4-5
6–7
Discussions and
Discussions and
Discussion and
explanations
are
brief
explanations
are
explanations
involve
Delivered a lesson
and hasty;
superficial; attention not depth, complexity and
that is thorough and
effectiveness of
given to specifics of the attention to specifics;
complete; delivered a
lesson
is
hindered
by
topic; too vague;
demonstrated a perfect
scientifically accurate
includes only a few
understanding of the
lesson; demonstrated a many serious factual
errors;
demonstrated
serious
factual
errors;
topic; the visual aid
clear understanding of
little or no
demonstrated a
enhanced the lesson
the topic; visual aid
understanding
of
the
satisfactory
level
of
and
was scientifically
was accurate and
topic; there was no
understanding of the
accurate.
enhanced the lesson.
visual aid.
topic; the visual aid was
accurate and supported
the lesson.
1-2
There was no visual
Visual aid was used;
aid; speaker was not
speaker was clearly
Visual aid was
prepared and had
creative and original; prepared, had little to
no
confidence
and
confidence
in their
lesson was delivered
poise; lesson did not knowledge; lesson was
with confidence and
capture the attention interesting; script was
poise; lesson had
of the class; script hand written; script lacks
strong entertainment
organization and
value; script was word was not provided.
neatness.
processed and layout
was neat and
organized.
3
Visual aid was creative
and original; speaker
showed poise and
confidence; lesson
thoroughly captured the
attention of the whole
class; script was word
processed; layout was
organized and neat;
thoughts were
expressed fluently.