The Solar System
By: Haesun Choi
Mercury
• Escape Velocity: 15,450 km/h
• Distance from Sun: 57 million
kilometers
• Maximum Temperature: 465
degrees Celsius
• Minimum Temperature: -184
degrees Celsius
• Atmosphere: Hydrogen, Helium
• Diameter: 4876 kilometers
Venus
• Escape Velocity: 37,498 km/h
• Distance from Sun: 107
million kilometers
• Average Temperature: 449
degrees Celsius
• Atmosphere: Carbon Dioxide,
Nitrogen
• Diameter: 12,107 kilometers
Earth
• Escape Velocity:
67,578 km/h
• Distance from Sun: 150
million kilometers
• Average Temperature:
7.2 degrees Celsius
• Atmosphere: Nitrogen,
Oxygen, Argon
• Diameter: 12755
kilometers
Mars
• Escape Velocity: 18,024
km/h
• Distance from Sun: 229
million kilometers
• Maximum Temperature: 36
degrees Celsius
• Minimum Temperature: 123 degrees Celsius
• Atmosphere: Nitrogen,
Oxygen, Argon
• Diameter: 6794 kilometers
Jupiter
• Escape Velocity: 214,203
km/h
• Distance from Sun: 777
million kilometers
• Average Temperature: 153 degrees Celsius
• Atmosphere: Hydrogen,
Helium, Methane
• Diameter: 142,983
kilometers
Saturn
• Escape Velocity: 127,782
km/h
• Distance from Sun: 1,429
million kilometers
• Average Temperature: 184 degrees Celsius
• Atmosphere: Hydrogen,
Helium, Methane
• Diameter: 120,536
kilometers
Uranus
• Escape Velocity: 76,605
km/h
• Distance from Sun: 2,871
million kilometers
• Average Temperature: 184 degrees Celsius
• Atmosphere: Hydrogen,
Helium, Methane
• Diameter: 51,117
kilometers
Neptune
• Escape Velocity: 84,651
km/h
• Distance from Sun: 4,496
million kilometers
• Average Temperature: 184 degrees Celsius
• Atmosphere: Hydrogen,
Helium, Methane
• Diameter: 49,527
kilometers
Citation
• "Our Solar System." The Solar System. The
KidsKnowIt Network, 1998. Web. 15 Apr.
2013.
<http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_syste
m.htm>.
Name of Lesson: Planets of Our Solar System
Grade Level: 5
Subject: Earth Science
Prepared by: Haesun Choi
Overview and Purpose (include content): Students will be able to list the names of the
planets in our solar system with at least one fact (size, shape, color, number of rings,
number of moons, temperature, etc.). They will also be able to list them in order farthest
from the Sun.
Education Standards Addressed: (TEKS and
21st Century Skills)
Lesson Objective (specify skills and information that will be learned): Students will be able
to write the planets in order starting from the Sun from their image or facts.
Materials Needed and
Science, Mathematics, and Applied Learning
Technology Resources Needed: Computer
research (site:
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_syste
Information (give and demonstrate necessary information): There are 8 major planets in
our solar system. Each of our planets has interesting facts that can help us tell them apart. m.htm) Using this site, students will
research each planet in the solar system.
Content: Include image, distance from sun, temperature, diameter, atmosphere, velocity
Then they will make a creative power point
Pedagogy: Instructional Strategies: Go to http://www.google.com/sky/ and look at each of using images and stating facts about each
planet. (Search engines, pictures/images
the planets by searching it.
(clipart), citing)
Trying to make own group, selecting the planet they want to do, problems with power
point or researching, design and layout, misunderstanding instructions, asking for help,
behavioral problems, rubrics, time frame, group work, individual work
Technology: Internet safety, power point, research, copyright, keyboard, copy and paste,
citation, saving, inserting image, clip art, or videos, fonts, colors/backgrounds,
transition/slide, effects/animations
Verification (Steps to check for student understanding): Label the planets in order and
write at least one fact for each.
Activity (List and describe the tasks (be very specific about pedagogy): Students will be put
Notes: Students will have time to go
through each of the planet from the site
given to them.