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media type="custom" key="5767201" Grade Level: 1st Grade

Unit: Planets and Solar System

Lesson Objectives:  Time Required to complete this lesson: 45 minuets to 1 hour
 * Student will understand were the planets are positioned in the solar system
 * Students will understand the difference between the planets as far as size an placement
 * Student will be able to tell basic facts of planets in the solar system
 * Students will be able to understand basic of finding answer to question using the internet.

Title of lesson: Solar System Scavenger Hunt

Description of lesson: The students will each open the scavenger hunt from the wiki website and will have a printed copy to write their answers on. They will then go through each of the questions and the websites of each to find the answers to each of the questions. By clicking on the pictures in the scavenger hunt they will be taken to a website were they will find the answer. There is a variety of website for them to visit so they see there are multiple ways to find information. 

Assignment: The students will have various homework assignment sheets to help them through out the Solar system unit. There is also other sites on this wiki site for them to explore and find out more about the solar system.

Resources/materials needed: Computers lab, 24 copies of worksheets

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

This is a wiget that the students can use to help them find information on the planets.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: It will show that you can learn about the solar system and planets from the internet in a fun an interactive way. 

Lesson Plan #3
Unit: Solar System

 Lesson Objectives:  Time Required to complete this lesson: 45 minuets to 1 hour 
 * Student will understand were the planets are positioned in the solar system
 * Students will understand the difference between the planets as far as size an placement
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will be able to tell basic facts of planets in the solar system
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be able to understand basic of finding answer to question using the internet.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Title of lesson: Taking a Trip to a Planet

Description of lesson: The students will each open select a planet that they are interested in and pretend they are going on a trip to that planet. The idea will be like they could actually visit that planet and have a vacation. They would need to figure out what to bring with them as far as cloths and other items. After they have gathered their information they will create video to present that information to the class. [|A trip to Saturn]

Assignment: The students will have various homework assignment sheets to help them through out the Solar system unit. There is also other sites on this wiki site for them to explore and find out more about the solar system.

Resources/materials needed: Computers lab.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: It will show that you can learn about the solar system and planets from the internet in a fun an interactive way

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lesson Plan #4
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 1st

Unit: Solar System

Lesson Objectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Time required: 30 minuets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand order of the planets in the solar systems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be able to associate the pictures of the planets with names.

Title of Lesson: Name the Planet s

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Description of lesson: The students will watch a slide show that I crated with the pictures of each of the planets. They will then have to write down the order that the planets appear in the slide show and then figure out the pattern that they were shown. [|Our Solar System]

Assignment: The students will have various homework through out the solar system unit that will help them learn the name of the planets.

Resources/materials needed: Computer in classroom with access to internet.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lesson Plan #5
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 1st

Unit: Solar System

Lesson Objectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Time required: 30-45 minuets a day for about one week.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand the climate of each of the planets in the solar systems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand what it takes to a have a fictional colony on another planet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand how to use natural resources available to them.

Title of Lesson: Colony Research Project

Description of lesson: The students will use a blog post to get the assignment. There is also list of books from this wiki page as references to start gathering information. They will then create a power point presentation of the information they have gathered to show the class why they should choose that planet for a new colony. They will choose the planets random out of a hat. [|Colony Research Project]

Assignment: The students will have various homework through out the solar system unit that will help them learn the name of the planets.

Resources/materials needed: 5-6 computers for groups to work on with power point and access to the internet.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

[|News About Solar System]