THE EARTH AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

La UD va dirigida a 4º E.P en la asignatura de Science.

Los objetivos son:

• Know and identify the different planets and the other bodies of the solar system.
• Analyze and describe the planets.
• Use and work the ICTs.
• Encourage team work.
• Identify, enumerate, describe, compare and contrast planets and characters of the other bodies of the solar system.
• Describe the main features of the solar system.
• Classify the objects on the basis of size and other features.

Las tareas.

SESSION 1

MORNING MEETINGS (whole group. 10min)

The teacher has asked a lot of questions to know what the student know about the topic.

• Know the solar system.
  
  Example: What is our solar system? What is the Earth? What is the movement of the Earth? Where we live in the solar system? What is the moon? Does the Earth move? And the Sun? The solar system is always stay in motion? What is the shape of the solar system? Can people travel to and live in other planets?
• Know the different planets.
  
  Example: How many planets do we know? What do you think about the cycle of the seasons? Where is the sun? Which is the biggest object in the solar system? What is the colour of the planets? Which planet they would go to if they had the chance/ possibility?
  
   
  
  
  
   

Grufo discovers the solar system (whole group and individually. 10min)

 

One day, Grufo decided to take a trip. He boarded his tiny spacecraft. He noticed a pretty yellow SUN nearby and thought he'd take a look around. Our solar system is shaped like an egg.

The first thing MERCURY he saw was a small rocky planet orbiting closely to the sun. It was pocked with craters and very close to the sun, but didn't seem very interesting at first glance so he moved on to the next planet. This planet VENUS was covered in clouds. The clouds were so thick, Grufo couldn't see much of anything so he moved on. The third planet EARTH was a beautiful blue, white and brown planet. This was an interesting planet. It had a lot of nice white clouds, nice features all over the surface. There was water, land and ice. In addition, this planet had a very nice round moon circling it. Grufo decided he'd have to visit this planet, but he wanted to see what else was here first. The next planet MARS was smaller than the blue one and it was very red in colour. It was mostly uninteresting, except for a huge canyons and a deserts on the planet's surface.

Flying on, Grufo came to a bunch of rocks floating through space. Asteroids are often called dirty snowballs. However, probably know them by their other name comets, they are made of ice, rocks, gas and dust, and it is famous for having a tail when it gets near the sun. He decided to try and avoid these and flew around them. Out beyond those rocks, everything changed. There were a lot of little round worlds out here, but they were actually moons of very large planets.

The largest of these planets, JUPITER was massive in size and had a lot of little moons around it. It was covered in clouds and had very violent looking windstorms in those clouds, specifically a very large red spot. The next planet SATURN also had a lot of moons and was large, although not as large as the big red planet. It was mostly yellow in colour, but it was very interesting because it had such beautiful rings of rock and ice surrounding it. Moving on out, Grufo came to a very blue planet URANUS. It was a very beautiful colour blue, it was the first planet discovered by telescope. It shows off a majestic blue/green haze. He was truly shocked to discover that the next planet NEPTUNE, he came to was virtually identical to the previous one. Also a beautiful blue colour.

He quickly looked and notice something was once called planet, is now called a dwarf planet PLUTO. Grufo turned his spaceship around and he got home and told everyone all about his discoveries.

(Individually. 30min. To do all the exercises)

Read the following sentences and say if they are True (T) or False (F).

• In the third planet has a moon circling it. __________
• The sun is a planet. _______________
• The largest planet has a lot of little moons around it. _____________
• One planet has earrings. _________
• Our planet is red, blue and brown. _________
  
   
  
  Answer the following questions:

1. How many planets visited Grufo?
   
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2. What is the name of our planet?
   
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3. Is the Sun smaller than the others planets?
   
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4. What is an asteroid?
   
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   Cloze test. Complete the following test using the words from the box in the correct tense.
   
   pocket          sun          telescope         rings           blue          canyons        brown    
   
   planet         craters          white           comet         deserts        moons           sun
   
    
   
   Grufo is yellow like the _________. The rocky planet was ________ with ________. Our planet was a beautiful ________, _________ and ________ planet. The red planet has got a huge ________ and __________. The ________ is famous for having a tail when it gets near the ________. The largest planet had a lot of little ________. Other planet it had beautiful ________. One of this planet it was the first ________ discovered by _________.
   
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   planet        huge        haze         dwarf          moon        crater        cloud   

        snowball          spaceship           ring        discover        asteroid            

 

Put the graphemes in order to make words:

SESRETD                       ZAHE                        LOUDC

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OTESMC                         WFADR                       SRNGI

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Plenary. KWL CHART (individually. 5min)

 

Now we are going to complete a KWL chart and we will also display another one in the class. In the first column, write anything you know about the session, in the second column what you want to know and the third one, we will finish at the end of the session.

 

WHAT DO I KNOW?	WHAT DO I WANT TO KNOW?	WHAT DID I LEARN?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 2

Morning Meetings: The teacher has asked a lot of questions to know what the student know to the previous day about the topic.

The Earth

The Earth is the third planet from the Sun in the solar system and the fifth largest. Its diameter is approximately 12,700 km and it is about 4.5 billion years old. Earth is a terrestrial planet, which means it is made mostly of rock and metal, and it has a very high density. A terrestrial planet also has a slow rotation, a solid surface, no rings and not many satellites. Mercury, Venus and Mars are also terrestrial planets. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is water. Earth is the only planet in the solar system where water exists in a liquid form on the surface. Liquid water is essential for life as we know it. The Earth's atmosphere is 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 2% other gases such as carbon dioxide. The Earth has one satellite – the Moon.

Answer the questions.

 

1. What is a terrestrial planet?

2. How many terrestrial planets are there in the solar system?

3. What is the satellite of the Earth?

4. Why is the Earth unique in the solar system?

 

How much do you know about planet Earth? In pairs. Decide if these statements are true or false. Write T or F.

 

• The Earth is the third planet from the Sun.
• The Earth is the second largest planet in the solar system.
• The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
• Is the only planet where water exists in a liquid form on the surface.
• The Earth's has two satellites.

 

Write a short description (75–100 words) of an astronaut's view of the Earth from space. Use exercise 5 to help you. Include this information:

 

Natural and man-made objects you can see

The colours you can see

A famous visible object you would like to see from space

 

Plenary. KWL CHART

 

SESSION 3

Morning Meetings: The teacher has asked a lot of questions to know what the student know to the previous day about the topic.

PARTS OF THE EARTH

We can name three parts of the Earth:

 

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• The Atmosphere: the atmosphere is the air that we breathe. It is the gaseous part of the Earth. The atmosphere is composed of nitrogen, oxygen and other gases. Living beings need oxygen to breathe and live.

 

• The Hydrosphere: the hydrosphere refers to all of the water on our planet, it is the liquid part of the earth. Most water comes from oceans and seas and the rest is in lakes and rivers.

 

• The Geosphere: the geosphere is the solid part of the earth that is composed of rocks and metals. In the geosphere there are three layers: the Earth's crust, mantle and nucleus.

 

 

 

 

Listen and complete the exercise.

 

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The Earth is a ________ round ________. There are a lot of interesting things on the Earth. The ________ shines, the wind blows, the ________ falls on it. We see the ________ and the ________, air and ________, trees and grass on the Earth. A lot of beautiful flowers grow in the fields and gardens. Different birds and animals ________ in the forest. But nothing can live without sunlight. The ________ is like a lamp that gives light, and it is also like a fire that gives warmth. But animals, trees and ________ cannot grow or live without air and water. The rain gives them water, the sun warms them and everything begins to ________. Water is the most wonderful thing on the ________. Some of the water is in ________ and lakes and some in seas and ________. The water in rivers and lakes is fresh, and in seas and oceans the water is ________.

 

 

 

 

 

Plenary. KWL CHART

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 4

 

Morning Meetings: The teacher has asked a lot of questions to know what the student know to the previous day about the topic.

MOVEMENTS OF THE EARTH

 

There are two important movements that affect The Earth.

 

Rotation: the Earth moves around an imaginary line that it is called an axis. The Earth takes 24hours a day to complete one rotation. This movement causes day and night. The Earth rotates constantly in the same direction, that's why the Sun always rises in the east and sets in the west. In the part of the Earth facing the Sun it is day-time and the other side, it is night-time.

 

Revolution: the Earth also moves around the Sun, this movement is called revolution. The Earth takes 365 days, or a year, to make one revolution.

 

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SEASONS OF THE YEAR

 

The revolution of the Earth causes us to have four seasons. They are:

SPRING

From the 21st of March to the 21st of June. In Spring, the weather is warm and sunny.

SUMMER

From the 21st of June to the 23rd of September. In Summer, it is hot and sunny.

AUTUMN

From the 23rd of September to the 22nd of December. It is often rainy and windy.

WINTER

From the 22nd of December to the 21st of March. It is cold and sometimes snowy.

 

 

 

THE MOON

 

The Moon is the Earth's natural satellite. Life is not possible on the Moon because there is no atmosphere. The Moon does not give out light because it is not a star but it looks bright because it reflects light from the Sun. The part of the Moon facing the Sun is illuminated. The part facing away from the Sun is in darkness.

 

The Moon rotates on its axis and orbits around the Earth. This is why it seems to change its shape.

 

 

 

The phases of the Moon depend on its position in relation to the Sun and the Earth. As the Moon makes its way around the Earth, we see the bright parts of the Moon's surface at different angles. These are called the "phases" of the Moon. There are four main phases: new moon, first quarter, full moon and last quarter.

 

Look for the words below in pairs and don't forget to use the sentences in the box.

 

 

FIRST QUARTER / FULL MOON / LAST QUARTER / MOON /

NEW MOON / PHASES / SATELLITE

 

 

Plenary. KWL CHART

 

SESSION 5

 

Morning Meetings: The teacher has asked a lot of questions to know what the student know to the previous day about the topic.

THE PLANETS

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Read the text and select the main ideas. Make a main map in a poster. (In groups)

Our solar system is made up of the sun and everything that travels around it. This includes eight planets and their natural satellites such as Earth's moon; dwarf planets such as Pluto. The sun is the center of our solar system. It contains almost all of the mass in our solar system and exerts a tremendous gravitational pull on planets and other bodies. Our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. The four planets closest to the sun -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars -- are called the terrestrial planets because they have solid, rocky surfaces. Two of the outer planets beyond the orbit of Mars -- Jupiter and Saturn -- are known as gas giants; the more distant Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants. Many objects in our solar system have atmospheres, including planets, some dwarf planets and even a couple moons.

 

The SUN is a star, a hot ball of glowing gases at the heart of our solar system. Its influence extends far beyond the orbits of distant Neptune and Pluto. Without the sun's intense energy and heat, there would be no life on Earth. And though it is special to us, there are billions of stars like our sun scattered across the Milky Way galaxy.

 

Sun-scorched MERCURY is only slightly larger than Earth's moon. Like the moon, Mercury has very little atmosphere to stop impacts, and it is covered with craters. Mercury's dayside is super-heated by the sun, but at night temperatures drop hundreds of degrees below freezing. Ice may even exist in craters. Mercury's egg-shaped orbit takes it around the sun every 88 days.

 

VENUS is a dim world of intense heat and volcanic activity. Similar in structure and size to Earth, Venus' thick, toxic atmosphere traps heat in a runaway 'greenhouse effect.' The scorched world has temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Glimpses below the clouds reveal volcanoes and deformed mountains. Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction of most planets.

 

EARTH, our home planet, is the only planet in our solar system known to harbor life - life that is incredibly diverse. All the things we need to survive exist under a thin layer of atmosphere that separates us from the cold, airless void of space.

 

Our MOON makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate, and creating a tidal rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years. The moon was likely formed after a Mars-sized body collided with Earth and the debris formed into the most prominent feature in our night sky.

 

MARS is a cold desert world. It is half the diameter of Earth and has the same amount of dry land. Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and weather, but its atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist for long on the surface. There are signs of ancient floods on Mars, but evidence for water now exists mainly in icy soil and thin clouds.

 

COMETS are described by astronomers as "dirty snowballs." They have a nucleus of dust and ice surrounded by a coma (thin atmosphere of evaporated ice). The nucleus is mainly water.

ASTEROIDS, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System. They are smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids. You can tell the difference by looking at them: Comets have a perceptible coma while asteroids do not.

Little chunks of rock and debris in space are called METEOROIDS. They become meteors -- or shooting stars -- when they fall through a planet's atmosphere; leaving a bright trail as they are heated to incandescence by the friction of the atmosphere. Pieces that survive the journey and hit the ground are called meteorites.

The most massive planet in our solar system -- with dozens of moons and an enormous magnetic field -- JUPITER forms a kind of miniature solar system. It resembles a star in composition, but did not grow big enough to ignite. The planet's swirling cloud stripes are punctuated by massive storms such as the Great Red Spot, which has raged for hundreds of years.

Adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets, SATURN is unique among the planets. All four gas giant planets have rings -- made of chunks of ice and rock -- but none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's. Like the other gas giants, Saturn is mostly a massive ball of hydrogen and helium.

URANUS is the only giant planet whose equator is nearly at right angles to its orbit. A collision with an Earth-sized object may explain the unique tilt. Nearly a twin in size to Neptune, Uranus has more methane in its mainly hydrogen and helium atmosphere than Jupiter or Saturn. Methane gives Uranus its blue tint.

Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, NEPTUNE is the last of the hydrogen and helium gas giants in our solar system. More than 30 times as far from the sun as Earth, the planet takes almost 165 Earth years to orbit our sun. In 2011 Neptune completed its first orbit since its discovery in 1846.

Dwarf planets are round and orbit the Sun just like the eight major planets. But unlike planets, dwarf planets are not able to clear their orbital path so there are no similar objects at roughly the same distance from the Sun. A dwarf planet is much smaller than a planet (smaller even than Earth's moon), but it is not a moon. PLUTO is the best known of the dwarf planets.

Plenary. KWL CHART

 

 

SESSION 6

THE PLANETS

Morning Meetings: The teacher has asked a lot of questions to know what the student know to the previous day about the topic.

They have time to complete or to finish the mind map, they have to show and explain the mind map.

We are going to play "Who wants to be a millionaire". In groups and the teacher ask question about this Clil.

At the final activity the students have to do the SELF ASSESMENT

 

 

 

 

 

ASSESMENT

The assessment of the unit´s concepts is continue, through teacher´s observation and student´s interaction, motivation and participation. Likewise, the teacher will have a rubrick to evaluate if students get the objectives.

 

	Excellent	V. Good	Good	Enough	Not enough	Observations
Identify the planets and the other bodies of the solar system
Understand the Earth ́s movements of orbit and rotation and their consequences: the succession of day and night and the seasons
Understand and follow instructions and texts
Participate actively in dialogues and debates
Tell my experiences and opinions with fluency
Tell a story in order and coherently.
Express my emotions and needs
Use the communicative rules and respect my classmates turn.
Make hypothesis about what I see or listen.
Pronounce the phonemes properly
Write a formal letter, a composition and a script
Know the sources to look for information.
Select the main ideas from a text or video.
Enjoy the world of the solar system
Be responsible and cooperate with my classmates   Know to work in teams   Use and work the ICTs
Identify the natural cycle of the season.

Violeta Fraile Blázquez

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