Seasons Lesson Moon Phases Solar System Unit Eclipses and Tides Earth in Space
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This 3-week blended learning unit on Earth in Space is a series of lessons to help students understand Earth’s rotation, revolution, and 23.5° tilt, the reason for the seasons, the cyclical phenomena of day and night, moon phases, solar and lunar eclipses and tides, as well as Earth's place in our solar system and the scale of objects in the solar system.
What is a blended learning unit? Blended learning combines online educational materials and opportunities with physical place-based classroom methods.This resource is the digital 'backbone' component of the unit that is editable and flexible for incorporating hands-on activities and labs and for varying the delivery of lessons to accommodate whole-class discussion, or small group, partner, or individual work.
But PLEASE NOTE! This is NOT a webquest! These lessons are written to be a sequential journey through the content and the teacher will still be facilitating the lessons. Students are not left to complete these lessons on their own. The teacher can use best practice pedagogy to have students interacting in whole-class discussions and small group work throughout the unit!
Throughout this unit, students will engage in:
- modeling activities and feedback galleries
- digital manipulatives and graphic organizers
- virtual interactives and simulations
- predicting, observing, and explaining phenomena
- video clips
- readings
- formative assessments
- post assessment
- and more!
These 10 lessons are organized into separate Google Docs that you will share with your students on Google Classroom. Each of these lessons takes 1 to 2 days to complete. Students will type directly on their copies of these Docs and these are what you will grade for each student.
My students have responded so well to this lesson format because they know what to expect. I love that I can schedule out all of the lessons in Google Classroom and I know what I’m teaching weeks out! The prep is easy and the grading is so easy too.
This download includes a Unit Overview Google Doc that is for the Teacher. This document has all of the lessons written out in sections (Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, etc.) so that you can see everything in one place. This document notes how many days (45 minute periods) each individual lesson will usually take to complete and it contains most of the answers for the activities. This will help you with planning. It also contains the answers and example student models.
Please view the PREVIEW for more visuals of how this unit is organized!
This is a list of the topics/concepts covered in each lesson:
Lesson 1: Sun-Earth-Moon Phenomena
Lesson 2: Earth's Rotation and Revolution
Lesson 3: Reason for the Seasons
Lesson 4: Earth's Moon
Lesson 5: Moon's Revolution
Lesson 6: The Moon Phases
Lesson 7: Solar and Lunar Eclipses
Lesson 8: Tides
Lesson 9: Our Solar System
Lesson 10: Our Solar System to Scale
This unit was designed to satisfy the following NGSS Standards: MS-ESS1-1: Develop and use a model of the Sun-Earth-Moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons; and MS-ESS1-3: Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system.
This unit took me months to plan and it has been completed by my students! They loved it and I had so much fun teaching it! I'm confident that this unit will save you TONS of planning time! You will have 3 weeks of editable and flexible curriculum!
Heads up! You can also take advantage of a HUGE discount off of this unit and all of my other Earth and Space resources when you purchase the Earth & Space Science BIG Bundle!
You may also be interested in these resources:
The Universe and Its Stars Digital Unit
Earth's Motion Cornell Doodle Notes
The Reason for the Seasons Cornell Doodle Notes
Moon Phases Cornell Doodle Notes
Scaled Solar System Modeling Activity
Sun-Earth-Moon System Review Abracadabra Pixel Art
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