Hello!
How are you? Here are some pictures of some of the planets (惑星) and dwarf planets (準惑星) in the Solar System (太陽系). The picture above is one of the most famous of the planets we know - Jupiter (木星), the largest planet of the Solar System.
Before we begin, here are the lesson board notes from last week's (5/13) classes.
Listening & Speaking 1a:
Now let's go to some planets of the Solar System!
Activity
Let's look at these planets. What do you know about them?
For the Listening & Speaking class students - now let's move on to the discussion circles!
Discussion circles
Here is our discussion circle questions about the Solar System.
As before, if there are only three (3) members in your group, the leader should also be the vocabulary master. The summarizer or details master should ask the leader questions about vocabulary from the lecture or reading.
Activity
Leader questions
Extra outside research (for students interested in this topic)
Choose two (2) of these planets, and research about them. Note down things such as:
Before we begin, here are the lesson board notes from last week's (5/13) classes.
Listening & Speaking 1a:
Writing & Composition 1a:
Activity
Let's look at these planets. What do you know about them?
Venus (金星)
Saturn (土星)
Mercury (水星)
Pluto (冥王星)
Eris (エリス)
Discussion circles
Here is our discussion circle questions about the Solar System.
As before, if there are only three (3) members in your group, the leader should also be the vocabulary master. The summarizer or details master should ask the leader questions about vocabulary from the lecture or reading.
Activity
Leader questions
For the summarizer
Are you ready to summarize the reading/CD talk? (Can you give us your summary of the reading/CD talk?)
For the details master
1. How long ago was the Solar System formed?
2. What kind of star is the Sun?
3. What are the four inner planets made of?
4. What are the last four planets called?
(Leaders - think of two (2) more questions of your own from the lecture or reading to ask the details master!)
For the vocabulary master
1. What is a moon?
2. What is an asteroid?
3. What is a dwarf planet?
4. What is a gas giant?
(Leaders - think of two (2) more words of your own from the lecture or reading to ask the vocabulary master!)
I hope this helps you with your understanding about this topic.
Extra outside research (for students interested in this topic)
Choose two (2) of these planets, and research about them. Note down things such as:
- Their distance from the Sun
- Orbits and how long they take to revolve around the Sun
- Surface temperatures
- Length of days and nights
- Any other interesting points you might find about them
Images: Top - by NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) - http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410a/ or http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/24/image/b/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32799232/Venus - by NASA or Ricardo Nunes - http://www.astrosurf.com/nunes/explor/explor_m10.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=338424/Saturn - by NASA - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/vg1_p22994c.html (image link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5956746/Mercury - by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington - NASA/JPL.Edited version of Mercury in color - Prockter07.jpg by jjron (cropped to square)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24301424/Pluto - by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute - http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=243, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45707703/Eris - by ESO/L. Calçada and Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org) - http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1142a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17153692
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