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Solar System

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__Warm up__ –Each class I will introduce a skill listed in the vocab section and demonstrate how to use it in Powerpoint

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__Evidence of best practice__ – students will be able to refer to the video and helpful tips on my wiki at anytime they get stuck, peer instruction

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1. The solar system is our ?????? that travels around it. 2. Our solar system is ?????? in shape. 3. Eight known planets and their moons, along with, ?????? , and other space objects ?????? the sun.
 * The Solar System **

4. The sun spins slowly on its ?????? as it ?????? around the galaxy. 5. The sun also produces big explosions of energy called ?????? .
 * The SUN **

6. A planet is large space objects which ?????? around a star. 7. There are two groups of planets named ?????? planets and ?????? planets.
 * The Planets **

__** Mercury **__ 8. Mercury is about the same size as our ?????? . 9. Mercury can only be seen from Earth just before ?????? or just after ?????? , but not in the middle of the night.

__** Venus **__ 10. Venus is called the ?????? , because it looks so bright to us from Earth. 11. This planet is unusual because it ?????? in a direction opposite that of all the other planets.

__** Earth **__ 12. Seventy percent of the Earth's surface is covered by ?????? . 13. It has an atmosphere made up of many different ?????? , but mainly it is nitrogen and oxygen.

__** Mars **__ 14. The ?????? is what gives Mars its red color. 15. Mars also has some of the tallest ?????? and some of the deepest ?????? in our solar system.

__** Jupiter **__ 16. Jupiter is so large that all of the other ?????? in the solar system could fit inside of it!

__** Saturn **__ 17. Saturn is surrounded by over 1,000 rings made of ?????? and ?????? . 18. The size of the ?????? in the rings range from pebble size to house size.

__** Uranus **__ 19. Uranus is large enough to hold ?????? planets the size of the earth. 20. The cold ?????? is what gives Uranus its blue-green color.

__** Neptune **__ 21. Neptune has winds in its atmosphere which blow at over ?????? kilometers per hour. 22. Neptune has ?????? moons.

__** Pluto **__ 23. Since the year 2000, [|astronomers] realized that Pluto was ?????? the other eight planets but very much like a new group of objects found in the outer solar system. In 2006, astronomers re-classified Pluto to be a ?????? planet. 24. Pluto has ?????? moons. Pluto's largest moon, ?????? , is half the size of Pluto.

Adapted from Success Link http://www.successlink.org/great/g267.html) http://www.udel.edu/sine/students/solarsystem/