Solar System Moon, Stars, Sun, Planets

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Solar System(Moon, Stars, Sun, Planets)

• Amy Johnson and Cheri Scheer

Seventh Grade Science updated 2005
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General Objective

• Objects and Their Motion in the Solar System
• Strand 6, Concept 1 2

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Concept Map
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Seasonal Changes

• Tilt of the Earth and Dates
• Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours
• Axis is tilted at 23 1/2 degrees
• Earth revolves around sun every 365 1/4 days in
  an elliptical path

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Moon

• Phases and Dates Quiz
• Lunar Landing (yes or no)
• Eclipses
• Other planets

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Eclipses
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Planets

• INNER PLANETS
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars

• OUTER PLANETS
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto

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INNER PLANETS

• Terrestrial
• Small
• Solid

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MERCURY

• Slightly bigger than the Moon
• Covered with craters
• 1 Mercury day is 59 Earth days
• -180 to 400 C
• 1 Mercury year 88 Earth days

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VENUS

• Covered with thick clouds
• Atmosphere is almost all CO2
• Surface temperature 475
• 1Venus day is 243 Earth days
• 1 Venus year is 225 Earth days
• Retrograde Rotation

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EARTH

• Changing weather patterns
• Key to life is water
• Perfect distance from the Sun to support life

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MARS

• Thin atmosphere of CO2
• Water only polar caps
• Covered in volcanoes
• Dusty, barren surface appears red
• 2 moons Phobos and Deimos
• 1 day-1day 1year 687 days
• ½ diameter, 1/10 mass of Earth

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OUTER PLANETS

• Gas giants
• No solid surfaces
• Pluto not considered an outer planet

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JUPITER

• Made primarily of hydrogen and helium
• Giant Red Spot is a storm/tornado system the size
  of 1½ Earths
• Largest planet (able to hold all other planets)
• 60 known moons
• Io, most volcanically active place in solar
  system
• 3 of 4 large moons have icy surfaces
• 1 day _at_ 10 hours 1 year 11.9 years

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SATURN

• Second largest planet
• Made of hydrogen and helium
• Winds blow 900 mph
• 31 known moons
• Titan is larger than Mercury
• Rings are a few hundred meters thick and are the
  largest
• Can be seen from Earth with telescope
• Three main with thousands of ringlets
• 1 day _at_ 10 hours 1 year 29.5 years

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URANUS

• Featureless, blue-green
• Mainly hydrogen, helium, and methane
• Absorbs red part of sunlight
• Rotates on its side
• Possibly struck by massive object
• Has 13 rings
• Has 27 moons
• Miranda shows evidence of being struck, breaking
  apart, and collecting together again
• 1 day 17 hours 1 year 84 years

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NEPTUNE

• Made similar to Uranus with cloud belts
• Great Dark Spot similar to Great Red Spot
• Looks like faint blue-green star
• Set of very narrow rings
• 13 known moons
• Triton is smaller than Earths moon
• Orbits opposite of Neptunes spin
• 1 day 18 hours 1 year 165 years

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PLUTO

• Smallest
• rock and nitrogen ice with thin methane
  atmosphere
• Only planet never visited by a mission
• Sometimes orbit path is inside Neptunes orbit
  making Neptune outermost planet
• One moon
• Charon is more than half the size of Pluto
• 1 day just over 6 days 1 year 248 years

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Project
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Lets Have FUN!

• Space Trivia
• Order Up!
• Adlib Story

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Lesson Summary
Lesson Summary
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MAP Assessment
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MAP Assessment
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Assessment

• Paper/pencil test over entire Solar System unit
• MAP Assessments
• Celestial Body Brochure/Powerpoint -- rubric

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Citations, Credits, References

• http//www.worldtimezone.com
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronom
  y/planets/earth/Seasons.shtml/
• http//www.astro.wisc.edu/dolan/java/MoonPhase.ht
  ml
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronom
  y/moon/Phases.shtml
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronom
  y/activities/label/labelmoonphases.shtml

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Citations, Credits, References

• http//www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link/kids_space/
  answers_moon.html
• http//www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon.htm
• http//www.windows.ucar.edu

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Career Areas

• Astronaut/Aerospace Engineer/Astrologer
• Farmer
• Meteorologist
• Oceanographer