Transcript The Solar System

The Solar System
By: Tammy Griffith
So What About It?
BIG QUESTION: MOST importantly, What IS the Solar
System?
*Does anyone know where the Solar System is?
*What’s so important about it?
* How does the Solar System affect us?
In your groups , try to answer these questions. If you can’t
answer them, just write down everything you know or want to
find out about the solar system. Write down at least 3 things.
When everyone is finished, have 1 person from your group come
and write down your ideas on the board.
Where do I go to get there
again?
The Solar System is located in Outer Space. We
can not see Outer Space without using special
instruments, like telescopes and satellites. These are
like super magnifying glasses, that can see very far
away.
The Solar System is a part of something bigger,
which is known as a galaxy, more directly, the
Milky Way.
Individual Quest: Can you think of anything else
that reminds you of the Solar System, in terms of
parts? Write down your answers on your paper and
be ready to share.
What Makes Up the Solar System?
• We all live on a planet called Earth. This planet
is one part of the WHOLE Solar System.
• On “Go”, walk to where your number is listed,
around the room.
• Count the amount of people in your group
and write this number down on your butcher
paper.
• Mode. What else can you think of that has the
same important number (8), like the Solar
System?
What’s the Number For?
• How many people are in your group?
• This is the number of PLANETS or parts in the
Solar System.
• Every planet is special. It has it’s own unique
characteristics, just like you and I.
• All 8 planets together circle or orbit around
the Sun.
Order, What Order?
• The order of the planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth
(OUR home ) Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune.
• Back to each planet having it’s own special
characteristics, think of things that could possibly be
different about the planets.
• Here’s a hint: some of these planets have rings. Do all
the planets have rings? Are all the planets the same
shape? Are they all the same color?
• In pairs of 2, walk around the room and at each
planet, write down as many things, using describing
words, about the planet. You will only have a minute
at each planet, to write, so put on those thinking caps.
TEKS Used For 2nd Grade
112.4
(5A) Classify and sequence organisms, objects, and events
based on properties and patterns.
112.4
(12D) Identify gravity as the force that keeps planets in orbit
around the Sun and the moon in orbit around the Earth.
112.4
(10B) Identify uses of natural resources.
112.7
(2.7A) Describe attributes ( 3 of vertices, faces, edges, sides)
of 2 and 3-dimensional geometric figures such as circles,
polygons, spheres, cones, cylinders, and pyramids, etc.
Sources Used
• TEKS webpage:
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter1
11/ch111a.html
• Google Images:
www.google.com/images
• http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our
_solar_system/planets.html
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