Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
(Indirect Instruction)
Essential Standards/Common Core Objective (2): Date submitted: Date taught: 10/31
Students know that we live on a planet that is part of a solar system. Students know that a solar system
includes a star and planets, and other objects. The planets and other objects revolve around the star. Students
know that in our solar system Earth is the third planet from the sun.
21st Century Skills (1): Academic Language Demand (if Handbook applicable)
Tips: Only include language demands for THIS lesson.
2. Struggling Learners Provide students with an article Provide student(s) with an article
on specific planet for them to that includes an abundance of
3. English-Language-Learners research instead of having the images. Also allow them to use
student(s) look it up themselves. chrome book to watch videos on
the specific planet they were
given to research and allow them
to watch the video in their
language.
Materials/Technology (1):
Various spherical objects
Paper strips with solar system facts written on them
Promethean Board
Chrome Book – For research
Index cards
Poster board
Reflection on lesson:
In this lesson, I really feel like the students benefitted from having tangible items that they can hold and sort.
I think this gives them a better idea of the relations amongst the planets. If I were to change something about
the lesson I may have just put the facts on the promethean board instead of having each group write the fact
on the board. I think with doing that it would save more time and allow them to spend more time researching
their own facts once we got to the group work. Although, I could tell both the lesson as a whole was effective
as far as giving students the tangible items and facts already written out because students were engaged and
were able to build communication off of the facts given which means they were understanding the topic. Each
group had something to share from around the room to compare the planets to the sun including erasers, a
chrome book and even the globe in the classroom. This let me know that the students were understanding the
relation amongst the 8 planets and understood that the sun and planets were much bigger than what it appears
to be from an image. We did not get to share the facts that each group found on their chrome books but from
walking around the classroom I could tell that each group had a variety of facts they were planning to share
with the class and if time had allowed I would have had at least one person from each group share a fact that
they found. To close the lesson, I explained to the students that what we did today is exactly what scientist do
when they are classifying and researching the planets themselves. That way students were connecting it to
what a real-life scientist does and made them feel as though they were scientist themselves during the lesson.
Overall, the lesson was engaging and informative for the students and I could tell that they were really
interesting and intrigued to learn more about the solar system.