Student+Activities

** S ** ** olar System  **  **﻿ ** Here are the assignments our class will be completing during the week of April 20, 2009-April 24,2009. The worksheet can be found by clicking on them according to the day they are presented and they will show up in a different window. __**Monday:**__
 * 1) First complete Definition Match worksheet individually
 * 2) We will discuss your results with the whole class and find out the correct answers
 * 3) After the discussion, I will hand out and you are to complete Solar System Position worksheet individually
 * 4) After completing the second worksheet, I will pair up to the person next to you and chose a topic in the Solar System. ( for example...the Sun, Milky Way Galaxy, Venus, Earth) Do not have the same topic as another group.
 * 5) On Tuesday and Wednesday, the pairs will be adding their topic onto a single PowerPoint slide to made a class Solar System Glossary. Each pair must include a title, their names, a graphic, and correct information on the slide.

__**Tuesday:**__ (50 min total)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I will explain the objectives for the travel brochure of the Solar System due on Friday (15 min)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pair by pair I will have students add their glossary page to the PowerPoint
 * 3) <span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">While students are waiting, we will watch //The Planets// video playing (25 min)
 * 4) <span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Groups come up one at a time to my desk to tell me their Solar System destination for the brochure

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin-left: 0.25in;">__**Wednesday:**__ (50 min total)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pair by pair students will add their glossary page to the PowerPoint
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">Students will use this day to work in their groups to research their destinations using their textbooks, the // Solar System // book, and Classification of the Solar System.
 * 3) <span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Students should be done adding their pages to the glossary by the end of class.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin-left: 0.25in;">__**Thursday**__: (50 min total) (35 min at the computer lab)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At the beginning of class I will ask the group for some preliminary information on their chosen destination for the brochure. (10 min)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We will walk to the computer lab after everyone presents what they have so far.(5 min)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The rest of the class time will be spent doing more research and completing the Solar System brochures.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin-left: 0.25in;">**__Friday__**: (50 min total)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Each group will present their brochure one at a time to the class.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Special surprise at the end of class; class will vote on the brochure they like the most and that group will receive 3 extra points.