The Solar System

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The Solar System

• Tyler Shaffer

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Essential questions

• Essential question What is the Solar System,
  what does it contain and how did it come to be?
• Unit Question What is the stuff that makes up
  planets? What materials is the Earth and the
  other planets in our Solar System made out of?

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SPACE! (and our planets)

• Topics covered in class would include
• Earth, learning about our own planet first!
• The other planets we share our Solar System with.
  
• NASA, cool stuff and real life space experiments!
• Learning about matter, force, energy

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Our Solar System/Milky Way
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TEKS 6th Grade

• (4)  The strands for Grade 6 include
• (A)  Scientific investigations and reasoning.
• (i)  To develop a rich knowledge of science and
  the natural world, students must become familiar
  with different modes of scientific inquiry, rules
  of evidence, ways of formulating questions, ways
  of proposing explanations, and the diverse ways
  scientists study the natural world and propose
  explanations based on evidence derived from their
  work.
• (10)  Earth and space. The student understands
  the structure of Earth, the rock cycle, and plate
  tectonics. The student is expected to
• (11)  Earth and space. The student understands
  the organization of our solar system and the
  relationships among the various bodies that
  comprise it. The student is expected to
• Taken from http//ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/t
  ac/chapter112/ch112b.html

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Example Vocab

• Solar System
• Eclipse
• Planet
• Moon
• Dwarf Planet
• Asteroid
• Comet
• Solar Flare
• Gravitational Pull
• Orbit

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By the end of the unit the student will be
expected to

• Be able to list the planets in our Solar System
• Know what Galaxy that our Solar System resides in
• Be able to identify and explain what Comets,
  Asteroids and Stars are.
• Know why the planets move in the way they do
• Know the order of planets
• Identify the planets of our Solar System by
  picture
• Know why Pluto is no longer a planet.

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Resources

• http//ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112
  /ch112b.html
• http//science.nationalgeographic.com/science/spac
  e/solar-system
• http//science.nationalgeographic.com/science/spac
  e/solar-system