Transcript Chalkboard Space Challenge

Chalkboard
Space Challenge
Jessica Runyan
4th grade
Blueprint:
•Identify and order the planets in the solar system by their distance
•Determine the order of the planets according to their distance
•Recognize that the length and position of a shadow are related
•Demonstrate how the earth rotates and revolves.
•Simulate the changing shape of the moon.
•Identify the phases of the moon in the correct sequence.
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Order of Planets
Identify that
Planet
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The Earth
The Moon
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Which planet Mercury
is closest to the sun?
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Which planet is farthest from the
Pluto
sun?
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What is the sixth planet from the
Saturn
sun?
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Name all the planets in order from
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
the sun.
and Pluto
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What two planets are on either side
Venus and Mars
of the earth.
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What was the first planet that was
Saturn
discovered to have rings?
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What planet is known as the “Blue
Neptune
Planet?”
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What planetPluto
is the coldest?
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Which planet is known as the “Red
Mars
Planet.”
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What is theVenus
brightest planet
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True or False:
Shadows are formed when light
True
traveling from a source is blocked
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When the sun is behind you, where
in front of you
would your shadow be?
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False
True or False:
Many years ago, and still today,
Shadows cannot be used to tell
people use sundials to tell what
what time of the day it is.
time of day it is.
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True or False:
False
Opaque objects/materials
allow
lightobjects
throughdo
and
Opaque
nottransparent
allow light to
objects/materials
not allow
pass
through them.doTransparent
light
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objects
dothrough
allow light
to pass.
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The Moon's orbit about the Earth
causes the Moon to shadow the
Sun's light
as viewed
A solar
eclipse from the
Earth. What is this called?
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What does the earth spin on?
This is an imaginary line passing
through the
It’sNorth
axis and South
Poles.
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The Earth takes how long to make a
complete
turn.
An entire
day, 24
hours
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True or False:
At any time half of the Earth faces
the sun. This part has day. The
other half of the
True
Earth faces away
from the Sun. It receives no light.
It is dark and has night.
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The earth is in the shape a ______?
Sphere
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The earth has how
1 many moon(s)?
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During the time it takes the moon to
travel around the earth, the moon
will change from a crescent shape
Phases
to a full moon. The stages in
between are called ____________?
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Light from the Sun bounces off
the Moon. The Sun is always
shining on the Moon, during
Why
moonthe
shine?
the
daydoes
and the
during
night.
Even when we can't see the
Moon. Sometimes we can only
see some of the Moon's surface
which is lit up by the Sun.
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Which phase of the moon is
The first quarter
shown?
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It takes the moon how many days to
28 days
orbit the earth?
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True or False:
The Moon is not a light source, it
has no light True
of its own. We can
only see the moon because it
reflects light from the sun.
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Write Your
How many earths would it take to
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fill the sun?
Wager
TIME’S
UP!
Game Over
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