Monday: -Finish lesson from Thursday/Friday:
http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/seasons/
Use basketball/lightbulb in middle of room demo to show tilt of Earth. Identify four areas of room just as a different season (1-4), but do not name them. Ask what season it is for us at each of these times.
Read 424-426 and define revolution and rotation in notebook. Because the middle of Earth (equator is always pretty close to sun, it is less likely to change as much throughout seasons and stay warmer overall.
Tuesday: Enrichment/Introduce Foldable Assignment
9:45 Catch up or...Explain that students will create a foldable that combines the Visual Summary and Make a Foldables Study Guide sections of page 427. Use the titles given in the foldables section. On the inside, they will have a picture to go along with the explanation to the starting statement on the outside. They can start work on this now or you can take time to get caught up.
Wednesday: Create the Foldables activity with illustrations as described on Tuesday. Due Thursday.
Thursday: -Make a chart with each planet that lists the days (revolutions) a planethas in the time it takes to make one orbit around the Sun. Earth=365, Mars=687, etc. Calcualate the ratio/fraction using 365 as the denominator for each planet since that is what we are dividing by. Earth 365/365=1 (set of 365 days=1 Earth year), Mars 687/365=1 322/365 or 1.88 so, Mars takes 1.88 Earth years and so on. Challenge: When chart is complete, have students try to calculate their age on each of the different planets.
Friday: -Mini Quiz on Sun/Earth relationship
http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/seasons/
Use basketball/lightbulb in middle of room demo to show tilt of Earth. Identify four areas of room just as a different season (1-4), but do not name them. Ask what season it is for us at each of these times.
Read 424-426 and define revolution and rotation in notebook. Because the middle of Earth (equator is always pretty close to sun, it is less likely to change as much throughout seasons and stay warmer overall.
Tuesday: Enrichment/Introduce Foldable Assignment
9:45 Catch up or...Explain that students will create a foldable that combines the Visual Summary and Make a Foldables Study Guide sections of page 427. Use the titles given in the foldables section. On the inside, they will have a picture to go along with the explanation to the starting statement on the outside. They can start work on this now or you can take time to get caught up.
Wednesday: Create the Foldables activity with illustrations as described on Tuesday. Due Thursday.
Thursday: -Make a chart with each planet that lists the days (revolutions) a planethas in the time it takes to make one orbit around the Sun. Earth=365, Mars=687, etc. Calcualate the ratio/fraction using 365 as the denominator for each planet since that is what we are dividing by. Earth 365/365=1 (set of 365 days=1 Earth year), Mars 687/365=1 322/365 or 1.88 so, Mars takes 1.88 Earth years and so on. Challenge: When chart is complete, have students try to calculate their age on each of the different planets.
Friday: -Mini Quiz on Sun/Earth relationship