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Analysis:
1. What are the different planets in our solar system?
2. What are the characteristics of each planet that makes it distinguishable from the others?
3. Aside from the planet and the sun what other heavenly bodies are present?
Abstraction:
Give a lecture/demonstration of the following topics:
(Outline)
a) Solar System overview
b) Large Scale Features of the Solar System
c) Small scale features of the solar system
d) Elements that are abundant on Earth, the Meteorites and the Universe.
Application: (Optional)
Activity/game based on Active Accretion NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers Program:
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/DawnClassrooms/pdfs/ActiveAccretion_Dawn.pdf
Evaluation: Explain the large scale features and the small scale features of the origin of the solar system.
Assignment: Students will answer this in their journal:
Is the Solar System unique or rare? What is the possibility of finding a similar system
within the Milky Way Galaxy? What about an Earth like planet?
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