Unit 4, Lesson 1: Intro to Earth and the Solar System
Learning Target: I can define different elements in the solar system
Class Activities:
1. Students walked in and picked up three handouts-- the Unit 4 cover sheet, the new vocab sheet, and the Unit 4, Lesson 1 Handout
2. There were two parts to the do now. First, I passed out detailed progress reports for the marking period, and students spent 5 minutes looking for missing assignments in their backpacks, getting new copies of assignments from the orange binder, looking at the no name board, etc. The session was extremely fruitful, as I *thought* I was up to date on my grading, and now I have a whole new pile of late work.
The second part of the do now was to put the parts of the universe in order (Earth, solar system, galaxy, and universe).
3. We went over the Unit 4 cover sheet, looked at what the assessments were going to be, etc.
4. For some classes, we watched a video clip of the model of the universe-- my projector stopped working in the middle of the day. It's below, if you'd like to take a look at it.
5. Students tried to do part 2 together:
As you know, we are using the Big Bang as the origin story of the universe. According to this theory, the universe began 13.8 billion years ago, when all the energy/matter in the universe was packed into a point smaller than you and I can imagine. When it exploded, it created time, space, and forces like gravity.
For about 200 million years, the universe was nothing more than an incredibly hot, murky cloud of protons, neutrons, and electrons. As the universe cooled, gravity caused these to clump together into dense clouds. Hydrogen atoms smashed together and fused into helium atoms, releasing energy called photons. These are our stars.
When a star runs out of hydrogen, it collapses. Depending on its size, it can collapse and expand a number of times, each time creating a heavier, more complex element. Some of the most common elements are hydrogen, helium, and carbon. Some elements need extremely hot temperatures to form, which can only be found in supernova or colliding neutron stars.
Elements are important because they make up every single thing around us.
6. Students got started on their homework, which is parts 3 and 4 on the back side of the handout. Use the supplement sheet to help you out-- practice finding the main idea, and putting it into your own words. I've given a lot of zeros for plagiarism lately.
Papers handed in today:
None
Homework:
Intro to Earth and the Solar System worksheet
Class Activities:
1. Students walked in and picked up three handouts-- the Unit 4 cover sheet, the new vocab sheet, and the Unit 4, Lesson 1 Handout
2. There were two parts to the do now. First, I passed out detailed progress reports for the marking period, and students spent 5 minutes looking for missing assignments in their backpacks, getting new copies of assignments from the orange binder, looking at the no name board, etc. The session was extremely fruitful, as I *thought* I was up to date on my grading, and now I have a whole new pile of late work.
The second part of the do now was to put the parts of the universe in order (Earth, solar system, galaxy, and universe).
3. We went over the Unit 4 cover sheet, looked at what the assessments were going to be, etc.
4. For some classes, we watched a video clip of the model of the universe-- my projector stopped working in the middle of the day. It's below, if you'd like to take a look at it.
5. Students tried to do part 2 together:
As you know, we are using the Big Bang as the origin story of the universe. According to this theory, the universe began 13.8 billion years ago, when all the energy/matter in the universe was packed into a point smaller than you and I can imagine. When it exploded, it created time, space, and forces like gravity.
For about 200 million years, the universe was nothing more than an incredibly hot, murky cloud of protons, neutrons, and electrons. As the universe cooled, gravity caused these to clump together into dense clouds. Hydrogen atoms smashed together and fused into helium atoms, releasing energy called photons. These are our stars.
When a star runs out of hydrogen, it collapses. Depending on its size, it can collapse and expand a number of times, each time creating a heavier, more complex element. Some of the most common elements are hydrogen, helium, and carbon. Some elements need extremely hot temperatures to form, which can only be found in supernova or colliding neutron stars.
Elements are important because they make up every single thing around us.
6. Students got started on their homework, which is parts 3 and 4 on the back side of the handout. Use the supplement sheet to help you out-- practice finding the main idea, and putting it into your own words. I've given a lot of zeros for plagiarism lately.
Papers handed in today:
None
Homework:
Intro to Earth and the Solar System worksheet
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