Susana Angulo, Christy Brown, Teresa Morales, Robin Reichenbach Physical Science 2004 Spring 2009 Dianne Phillips The lesson plan will include the following requirements in order to meet Arkansas’s framework of education guidelines: • It will demonstrate how the planets orbit the sun. • It will demonstrate how the Earth and it’s moon orbit around the Sun. • It will also relate how the Earth’s rotation around the Sun correlate with Earth’s days and nights. Arkansas Frameworks: ESS 10.3.1 ESS 10.3.2 ESS 10.3.3 NS 1.3.3 NS 1.3.7 • Our project will serve the community in several ways: • We will helping teachers to teach their students the valuable information about space. • We will getting the information about space out to more people through our contacts. • We will be advertising that 2009 is the Year of Astronomy. • To learn what planets are, and the names and order of the planets. Planet attributes can also be learned. • Demonstrate how the planet orbits the sun • Demonstrate the orbit of Earth and it’s moon around the sun • Relate Earth’s Rotation to the day/night We will be using: • The Internet • MySpace • Face book • PowerPoint • Word • Video camera We learned: • Arkansas frameworks for 3rd grade science • How to use MySpace and Face book websites • How to rely on others and work together A ▲ K ♪ U Ξ B ♣ L ¿ V ● C ∞ M ► W * D ♯ N ♥ X ╬ E ⌂ O Ω Y ♠ 1) I am a large star which the planets orbit around? F Θ P ■ Z Ɂ G ◊ Q ∟ H ‼ R Ѫ ___ ___ ___ ☺Ξ ♥ 2) I am the closest planet to the sun? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ►⌂ Ѫ ∞ Ξ Ѫ ♠ 3) I am almost the same size as the Earth? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ● ⌂♥ Ξ☺ 4) I have an ozone, oceans and land? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ⌂▲Ѫ♦‼ 5) I am often called the red planet? ___ ___ ___ ___ ►▲Ѫ ☺ 6) I am the largest planet in our solar system? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ▬Ξ■▼♦⌂Ѫ 7) I have big beautiful rings around me? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ☺▲ ♦ Ξ Ѫ ♥ 8) I am a pretty blue/green color? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ΞѪ▲♥Ξ☺ 9) I have 13 moons? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ♥ ⌂■ ♦Ξ ♥⌂ 10) I am now called a dwarf planet? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ■¿ Ξ ♦Ω I ▼ S ☺ J ▬ T ♦ Grade 3 Science I’m a Planet Brief Description Some students will "become" a planet so the names and order can be reviewed. The teacher may wish to show pictures of the planets and name a few of the planets' attributes. Learning Objective: • To learn what planets are, and the names and order of the planets. Planet attributes can also be learned. • Demonstrate how the planet orbits the sun • Demonstrate the orbit of Earth and it’s moon around the sun • Relate Earth’s Rotation to the day/night. Materials: For each student: • Drawing paper • Crayons or markers For the Lesson: • Book with planet pictures • Flashlight (if considered appropriate) Procedure: Prior to Lesson- in the Computer Lab: Review with students the different characteristics of each of the planets (power point presentation).Using either Paint or Word have students "draw" the nine planets using the shapes on the tool panel. Students should try to adjust the sizes of each planet in relation to the others (i.e. Pluto should be the smallest). The students should then go back and add the special characteristics unique to each planet. For example, Mars should be red and have two moons above it. Mercury should have smaller circles on it to represent its craters. Each planet can then be labeled. Other suggested activities: Class Activity: The following distance scale can be used to construct a model of the solar system along six meters of a classroom wall. Make a large circle of white paper to represent the sun. (It's the Earth's atmosphere which makes the sun look yellow.) For each planet, draw a dot and write the name on a piece of paper. Tack or tape the papers to a wall at the distances indicated on the scale. From the edge of the sun, the distances are: Planet Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Distance 6 cm 10 cm 14 cm 22 cm 74 cm 136 cm 280 cm 428 cm 562 cm We had to modify our lesson plan do to the class having most of the children under grade level and several who did not speak English very well. We gave them the pre-quiz, then showed them the PowerPoint and then let them chose to do a word seek puzzle or to draw a picture of their favorite planet. • http://www.myspace.com/knowyourplanets • http://www.facebook.com/home.php By: Susana Angulo Robin Reichenbach Christy Brown Teresa Morales Know Your Planets The Planets Sun • • • • • Big star Made out of gases called hydrogen and helium Very Hot It holds the solar system together Gives to the Earth: – Heat – Light – Energy • Spins around it axis • Generates space weather • All planets orbit around the sun Mercury • First planet • Closest to the Sun • Smallest planet – Because Pluto was classified as a dwarf • It has no atmosphere to retain heat – But it has a thin exosphere made of atom • • • • • Rotates three times during every two orbits No moon Spins slowly Eight largest from all the planets Inner planet Venus • Second planet • Similar to planet Earth: – Similarities of Venus and Earth are: • • • • Size Mass Composition Distance from sun • Venus spins very slowly – 243 days to spin around it axis – Spins Backward • Very hot temperature • Venus has no ocean • Brightest planet in the sky • Atmosphere made of carbon dioxide • It has volcanoes that do not erupt • Inner planet Earth • • • • Third planet away from sun Our home planet The only planet that has all the necessities for us to survive Earth is made of: – – – – • • Only planet to have liquid water on our surface Spins very quickly compared to other planets – – • • • • • Air Water Land Life (including humans) 24 hours to spin around it axis one time It orbits the sun in 365 days Big oceans Atmosphere full of oxygen for us to breath One moon Volcanoes that are different from other planets because they erupt. Inner planet Mars • Fourth planet • Its called Red Planet • Its surface has been changed: – By volcanism, – The impacts from other bodies – The movements of its crust – The atmospheric effects such as dust storms. • Spins very quickly – spins around on its axis in 24 hours and 36 minutes • It has an atmosphere made of carbon dioxide • It has two moons • Inner planet Inner planets Jupiter Fifth planet Largest planet of our solar system Mostly made of gas Three layers of clouds: • • • • 1. 2. 3. • • • • • Ammonia Ammonia and sulfur Water vapor It has a lot of storms It has winds It has rings 16 moons and maybe more Outer planet Saturn • • • • • Six planet Yellow Color Second largest one It has rings Made of hydrogen and helium – Hydrogen and helium are liquids in Saturn • Atmosphere has lots of sulfur • 52 moons a • Spins very quickly on it axis – One day in Saturn is only 10 hours long – One year is very long • Outer planet Uranus • Seven planet • It has 11 rings – 10 outer rings are dark, thin, and narrow. – 11th ring is inside the others and is broad and diffuse • It takes 84 years to complete one orbit around the sun • One day is 17 hours long • Rotation axis is horizontal – This unusual orientation may be the result of a collision with a planet-size body early in Uranus's history • • • • • Atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium. No solid surface A gas planet 27 moons Outer planet Neptune • • • • • • • • • Eight planet Blue Color It has a Great Dark Spot Atmosphere made of methane gas It orbits the sun once every 165 years because it is so far away. One day is 17 hours long Axis of Neptune's magnetic field is 'tipped over' by about 47 degrees, compared to the planets rotation axis 8 moons Outer planet Outer planets Pluto • Dwarf planet (is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.) • Very small • 248 years to orbit the sun • It’s moon is Charon – half the size of Pluto – shares the same orbit – Charon and Pluto are a double planet • Due to its lower density, its mass is about one-sixth that of the Moon • It has a bright layer of frozen methane, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide on its surface • It has a temporary thin atmosphere Planets orbiting the Sun Planets orbiting the Sun Earth and Moon orbiting the Sun Earth and Moon orbiting the Sun Earth rotation to day and night Words Cited • • • • • • • • • • http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/psgk3ex.htm http://www.redorbit.com/modules/reflib/article_images/6_15cc0586 5f89c4801c5ff2a85d74a93c.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/images/science/earthsunm oon_p1_1.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDjqLCVLeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDpVCsMkrQ0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NIveh7h6Dg http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf42/Talk_images/outer_pla nets_small_2.jpg http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/earth_su n_moon.shtml