1. Grab a Data sheet from the table by the door
Complex Knowledge: demonstrations of learning that go aboveand above and beyond what was explicitly taught.
Knowledge: meeting the learning goals and expectations.
Foundational knowledge: simpler procedures, isolated details, vocabulary.
Limited knowledge: know very little details but working toward a higher level.
Grab a Data sheet from the table by the door
Understand how our view of the solar system has changed over time and how discoveries made have led to our changing our view of the solar system.
Learn planetary characteristics such as number of moons, size, composition, type of atmosphere, gravity, temperature and surface features.
Understand the movement of planetary bodies.
Understand which planetary characteristics are more important than others when it relates to our understanding of other worlds.
Understand how proximity to the sun influences planets.
Understand the methods and tools scientists use to learn about other planets and moons in our solar system.
Understand the conditions needed for a habitable world and determine if there are habitable worlds in our solar system or outside the solar system.
Understand how we look for and study solar systems other than our own.

2. Question of the Day What objects make up the Solar System?
[This is a question astronomers have studied for centuries.]
How do scientists keep track of and organize everything in our solar system?

3. Helps you remember things:
A Mneumonic Device
Helps you remember things:
I Picked My Apple’s Today
Interphases, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase
DOC
“Captain Aquarro Picks Artillery Targets, General Canfield Leads Village Liberation,” Scotty Said.
Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius
Roy G. Biv
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
Kids Playing Cards On Freeway Get Smashed
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

4. Create Your Own For the Planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

5. Organizing the Solar System
Please look at how your cards are organized RIGHT NOW!
They should be this way when you leave!!
I can’t make more (they are color copies)
Please be careful

6. Organizing the Solar System
We will explore and categorize objects in the Solar System, following their chronology of discovery.
You may discover (just as scientists did) that you may need to revise catergories for objects as new objects are discovered.
You will sort these cards into groups based ONLY on the images provided and logical reasoning.
It is not sufficient to put something into a catergory for the simple reason that you “want it there” or “know where it belongs.”
Try not to base it on color
Don’t start out using shape either

7. Organizing the Solar System
Use post-it notes to label/name each grouping and include the following information on the post-it:
Name for your group
Description/Criteria used to create your group
The card numbers of the objects in your group
Name of category
Criteria to join group
Card #’s in group

8. You could use more or less than 4
Name of category Criteria to join group
Name of category
Criteria to join group
Name of category
Criteria to join group
Name of category
Criteria to join group

9. Record in your notebook (left side)

10. What criteria did you use to organize?
Is this the same criteria that astronomers use? Why or why not?

11. What is this stuff? 17. Saturn, planet 1. Ceres, dwarf planet
2. Charon, satellite of Pluto
3. Earth, planet
4. Eris, dwarf planet
5. Eros, asteroid
6. Europa, satellite of Jupiter
7. Halley, comet
8. Hyakutake, comet
9. Ida, asteroid
10. Jupiter, planet
11. Moon, satellite of Earth
12. Mars, planet
13. Mathilde, asteroid 
14. Neptune, planet
15. Phobos, satellite of Mars
16. Pluto, dwarf planet
17. Saturn, planet
18. Sun, star 
19. Tempel 1, comet
20. Titan, satellite of Saturn
21. Triton, satellite of Neptune
22. Venus, planet 
23. Vesta, asteroid
24. Wild 2, comet
25. Io, satellite of Jupiter
26. Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter
27. Datctyl, Satellite of Ida the Asteroid
28. Deimos, Satellite of Mars
29. Quaoar, Dwarf Planet
30. Sedna, Dwarf Planet
31. Nix, Satellite of Pluto
32. Mercury, Planet

12. 1. Ceres, dwarf planet

13. 2. Charon, satellite of Pluto

14. 3. Earth, planet

15. 4. Eris, dwarf planet

16. 5. Eros, asteroid

17. 6. Europa, satellite of Jupiter

18. 7. Halley, comet

19. 8. Hyakutake, comet

20. 9. Ida, asteroid

21. 10. Jupiter, planet

22. 11. Moon, satellite of Earth

23. 12. Mars, planet

24. 13. Mathilde, asteroid 

25. 14. Neptune, planet

26. 15. Phobos, satellite of Mars

27. 16. Pluto, dwarf planet

28. 17. Saturn, planet

29. 18. Sun, star 

30. 19. Tempel 1, comet

31. 20. Titan, satellite of Saturn

32. 21. Triton, satellite of Neptune

33. 22. Venus, planet 

34. 23. Vesta, asteroid

35. 24. Wild 2, comet

36. 25. Io, satellite of Jupiter

37. 26. Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter

38. 27. Datctyl, Satellite of Ida the Asteroid

39. 28. Deimos, Satellite of Mars

40. 29. Quaoar, Dwarf Planet

41. 30. Sedna, Dwarf Planet

42. 31. Nix, Satellite of Pluto

43. 32. Mercury, Planet

44. Homework
What more information would you have needed to come up with the same categories as astronomers?
How did your previous knowledge and experiences (related to Solar System objects) interfere or help you as you completed this investigation?
What is your definition of what a planet is?
What should be the criteria? Size, shape, color, composition, distance, moons, orbits, etc. Or should it be based on something else entirely?
Dwarf planet
Planet
Moon/satellite
Asteroid
Comet
Star

45. Please put everything back in order
Make sure the correct number cards get put in each bag
Also, Please Put the blue card in the front of the correct baggies.