Add these concepts to your Big Ideas (graphic notes) in your notebook supporting the question, 'How are models used to understand space phenomena.
PS2-4: Construct and present arguments using evidence to support the claim that gravitational interactions are attractive and depend on the masses of interacting objects.
Argument Rubric
Activities: Walking on the Moon, Orbit video, PhET Gravity, Gizmo Gravity pitch, Crash Course Gravity
Formative Assessment
Argument Rubric
Activities: Walking on the Moon, Orbit video, PhET Gravity, Gizmo Gravity pitch, Crash Course Gravity
Formative Assessment
- Argue whether Mars has less mass than Earth because it doesn't have an atmosphere or because it has less mass than Earth.
- Argue whether Mars has less gravity than Earth because its mass is less or it's farther from the sun.
Sun - Earth - Moon System
ESS1-1: Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.
Project Rubric Part B
Activities: Changing night sky (constellations); physical models of seasons, lunar phases, and eclipses; Why Do We Have Seasons interactive; Gizmos phases of the moon and eclipses
Formative Assessment:
Project Rubric Part B
Activities: Changing night sky (constellations); physical models of seasons, lunar phases, and eclipses; Why Do We Have Seasons interactive; Gizmos phases of the moon and eclipses
Formative Assessment:
- Seasons Exit Slip
- Models of seasons, lunar phases, and eclipses in your notebook
Gravity - Orbital Motion
ESS1-2: Develop & use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies & the solar system
Project Rubric Part C
Activities: Newton's cannon, NSTMF Gravity Lab, BrainPop Galaxies, Orbital Motion Article
Formative Assessment: Project organizer
Summative Assessment: Individual Space Project. Due December 9, 2019. You will be given sufficient time in class to complete your project.
Project Rubric Part C
Activities: Newton's cannon, NSTMF Gravity Lab, BrainPop Galaxies, Orbital Motion Article
Formative Assessment: Project organizer
Summative Assessment: Individual Space Project. Due December 9, 2019. You will be given sufficient time in class to complete your project.
Solar System Scale
ESS1-3: Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.
Project Rubric Part D
Activities: Analyze planet data cards, beads on a string scale distance model, fruit model, composition of planets, quantitative scale of the solar system.
Formative Assessment: Scale exit slip
Summative Assessment: Individual Space Project. Due December 9, 2019. You will be given sufficient time in class to complete your project.
Activities: Analyze planet data cards, beads on a string scale distance model, fruit model, composition of planets, quantitative scale of the solar system.
Formative Assessment: Scale exit slip
Summative Assessment: Individual Space Project. Due December 9, 2019. You will be given sufficient time in class to complete your project.