Transcript The Solar System

Tyler Shaffer
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:
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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
Our Solar System/Milky Way
TEKS 6th Grade
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(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:
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Taken from :
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/ch112b.html
Example Vocab
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Solar System
Eclipse
Planet
Moon
Dwarf Planet
Asteroid
Comet
Solar Flare
Gravitational Pull
Orbit
By the end of the unit the student
will be expected to:
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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.
Resources:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapt
er112/ch112b.html
 http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s
cience/space/solar-system
 http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s
cience/space/solar-system
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