Study Hall: working.

Assigned Seats.

See if you can determine what the following magnified photos are. Number your paper to 5.

1 2

3 4

5

The Answers:

Interactive Notebook Q3

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6.E.1.2 The Planet Earth and the Solar System

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Interactive Notebook Q3

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6.E.1.2 The Planet Earth and the Solar System

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OUR MISSION THIS WEEK…

You will become an expert at the solar system and be able to explain how the Earth can sustain life while other planets can not  

Solar System Worksheet

Tape this into your notebook now!

Add entry to table of contents

Call it “Solar System Worksheet”

Solar System Song

Mr. Parr Solar System

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH61v4_eVNA

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NOTES:

Astronomical Unit (AU)=

The Earth’s average distance from the sun

Approximately 93 million miles away

WRITE IN NOTEBOOK The Solar System consists

of:

The Sun and 8 Planets

Multiple moons

Asteroids, Meteors and Comets

Dust, gases and empty space.

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Mnemonic for the 8 Planets:

My Very Enthusiastic Mom Just Sent Us Nachos

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

DISCOVERY ED VIDEO

The Inner and Outer Planets

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4 Terrestrial Planets: inner planets

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

4 Gas Giants: outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and

Neptune

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Moons: orbit alongside planets

Many planets have moons.

Earth has 1 moon, Jupiter has 63 moons!

Moons of Jupiter

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RINGS:

cosmic, space dust and other small particles orbiting around a planet.

The four gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) all have rings.

SATURN = Planet most known for its rings

JUPITER & ITS RINGS

SATURN AND ITS RINGS

DISCOVERY ED VIDEO

Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites

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Asteroids: chunks of rock left over from when the planets formed

Largest of the solar system bodies

Most common in the ASTEROID BELT (located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)

ASTEROIDS

WRITE IN NOTEBOOKComets: asteroid-like objects covered in dust, ice, gases, and metals that develop a fuzzy, cloud-like shell called a coma

when they orbit close to the sun, the ice instantly melts, creating a long, visible tail (sometimes called a dirty snowball)

Form far away from the Sun

HALEYS COMET

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Meteoroid:

Large pieces from an asteroid or comet

Most burn up and never reach Earth

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Meteor: A meteoroid that burns up as it passes

through our atmosphere.

Creates a flash of light, known as ‘shooting stars’

Smallest of the solar system bodies

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Meteorite: A meteoroid that does not burn up

as it travels through the Earth’s atmosphere

It lands and crashes onto the Earth.

METEORITE ON EARTH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU

VIDEO IN RUSSIA

“I am” Activity

Directions:

1.Each statement gives you a hint for which one it is.

2.The words can be used more than once.

3.Use your notes to help you fill in the blanks

Review Solar System Worksheet

Follow along as I project the information onto the whiteboard

Bill Nye the Science Guy—5 minutes

Bill Nye and the distance between the planets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ob0xR0Ut8

DISCOVERY ED VIDEO

EARTH SCIENCE: SOLAR SYSTEM Intro of Solar System Planets of Solar

System