1.  Unit #2: The Solar System! What’s out there?

2. 9/29/2014Monday  Warm Up:  How was your weekend?  Go over Test  Make your weekly Warm Up chart (pg 66)  Activity:  Solar System Pre-Test  You will NOT be graded on this. Don’t worry! It’s just to see how much you already know  Let’s Talk: What is the Universe? What is in it?  Vocabulary Foldable! (pg 67)  Universe  Solar System  Star  Galaxy  Sun  Planet  Universe clip  Big Bang Theory Intro and Sing-A-Long  VOCABULARY QUIZ ON FRIDAY!

3. Universe All things that exist in space! Planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies!

4. Galaxy A VERY LARGE group of stars and planets We live in the Milky Way Galaxy!

5. Solar System The sun and the bodies that move in orbit around it

6. Star A ball of burning gas in space that gives off light

7. Sun Any star that is the CENTER of a system of planets OUR Sun is at the CENTER of our solar system

8. Planet A large body that does not give off light 3 things make a planet 1. A planet must orbit a sun 2. It must have enough MASS for it’s own gravity to shape it into a sphere 3. Must be massive enough to form it’s own orbit

9. Solar System Vocabulary Video  http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/sc ience/solar-system/universe.htm http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/sc ience/solar-system/universe.htm

10. The Big Bang Theory Sing-A-Long  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhTSfOZUNLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhTSfOZUNLo

11. 9/30/2014Tuesday  Warm Up:  Turn to a partner and review your Foldable Vocabulary  I will be coming around to check your Foldables for participation points (6 points)  Activity:  Big Bang Sing-A-Long  Foldable Vocabulary  The Big Bang - clip  Comets  Moons  Asteroids – clip  Book reading and questions pg 690 – 694. Self Check questions #1-5. DUE TOMORROW.

12. The Big Bang The EVENT from which the Universe began expanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NilPobb_r1k

13. Comets Flying chunk of rock and ice with a tail

14. Moons Also called a satellite. A chunk of rock rotating around a planet.

15. Asteroids Chunks of rocks that come from the outer regions of space into the Earth’s atmosphere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agdvt9M3NJA

16. Get a book from the front left corner of the classroom!  Read pg. 690 – 694  Answer questions 1-5 for the Section 1 Review under ‘Self Check’  Due tomorrow!  Posted on Weebly if you don’t finish in class!

17. 10/1/2014Wednesday  Warm Up:  Log into your Chromebook  Username: student@lotusschool.orgstudent@lotusschool.org  Password: Student2014  Make sure the ‘S’ in student is Upper Case!  Activity:  Solar System Internet Investigation Flashcards!  Go to my website and click the link!  www.mshallearthscience.weebly.com www.mshallearthscience.weebly.com  http://www.history.com/interactives/interactive-universe http://www.history.com/interactives/interactive-universe  Homework:  Finish Solar System Internet Investigation

18. 10/2/2014Thursday  Warm Up:  Go over ALL vocabulary with a partner  Have your Solar System Investigation out for me to check!  Finished  Cut and pasted  Pictures drawn  Activity:  Go over book questions from Tuesday!  GO OUTSIDE!  How big IS the Solar System?

19. 10/3/2014T.G.I.F.  Warm Up:  Study for 5 minutes with a partner. Quiz each other!  Activity:  Vocabulary Quiz (15 minutes)  Expanding Universe Balloon exercise  The Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey  Guided Notes – Due Monday (we will finish video on Monday)